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Attacks unnerve Tulsa's north side TULSA, Okla. - Residents of Tulsa's predominantly black north side said Saturday they're afraid a shooter is still roaming their neighborhoods looking for victims after five people were shot - and three killed - a day earlier. "We're all nervous," said Renaldo Works, 52, who was getting his hair cut at the crowded Charlie's Angels Forever Hair Style Shop on Saturday morning. "I've got a 15-year-old, and I'm not going to let him out late. People are scared.

GOT A VACANT house blighting your block or a vacant lot carpeted with trash? Abandoned car? Graffiti? Got a pothole putting a bruise on your Cruze and a contusion on your Fusion? How about a dead streetlight? Rosetta Lue wants you to call her at 3-1-1. "It's like 9-1-1 for all nonemergency calls," said Lue, who has directed Philly311 since 2009, its first full year. One number to call. Easy-peasy access to city services. So 3-1-1 should have gone viral here by now, right?

AS PROPERTY taxes in Philadelphia are expected to cost taxpayers an extra $90 million later this year, the Daily News ' recent story ("Not To Call You Cheap, But . . . " ) on the lack of tax payments by some of the city's biggest enterprises demands further examination and review. Holly Otterbein's It's Our Money story centers on nonprofit institutions that pay little or nothing for the city services from which they benefit, and on a mayor who has made little effort to collect for those services.

MAYOR NUTTER wants residents and businesses to fork over an additional $90 million in property taxes in the fiscal year that begins July 1. But many well-known institutions on valuable land have nothing to worry about - like the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Drexel. They're nonprofits, so they don't pay property taxes. There was a time when they would have chipped in anyway. In the 1990s, then-Mayor Ed Rendell coaxed many nonprofits into "payments in lieu of taxes," or PILOTs.

FOR THE FIRST time in two years, City Council took its show on the road last night, kicking off the budget season with a community hearing in Southwest Philadelphia. Unlike in past years, there was no galvanizing issue or populist anger, but the standing-room crowd in the St. John's AME Church basement still brought plenty of passion to the microphone. The issues stretched across a range of grievances - crime, jobs, blight, affordable housing, economic development, city services - and touched on some of the problems specific to the Southwest community, such as the historic tensions between African and Caribbean immigrants and their African-American neighbors.

For the first time in two years, City Council took its show on the road Wednesday night, kicking off the budget season with a community hearing in Southwest Philadelphia. Unlike in past years, there was no galvanizing issue or populist anger, but the standing-room crowd in the St. John's A.M.E. Church basement still brought plenty of passion to the microphone. The issues stretched across the range of citywide grievances - crime, jobs, blight, affordable housing, economic development, city services - and touched on some of the problems specific to the Southwest community, such as the historic tensions between African and Caribbean immigrants and their African American neighbors.

For the first time in two years, City Council took its show on the road Wednesday night, kicking off the budget season with a community hearing in Southwest Philadelphia. Unlike in past years, there was no galvanizing issue or populist anger, but the standing-room crowd in the St. John's A.M.E. Church basement still brought plenty of passion to the microphone. The issues stretched across the range of citywide grievances - crime, jobs, blight, affordable housing, economic development, city services - and touched on some of the problems specific to the Southwest community, such as the historic tensions between African and Caribbean immigrants and their African American neighbors.

WANT DETAILS of Mayor Nutter's 2013 budget proposal? Here's our take on the winners and losers in this plan: WINNERS Public safety - This budget includes $4 million for new police hires, $1 million for anti-violence programs and $9 million to start design work on a new police headquarters. LOVE Park - The storied park on JFK Plaza is slated to get a $20 million facelift. City services - After years of major reductions, this budget has no major cuts. There are just $2.2 million in departmental reductions, the bulk of which come from contract changes at the Office of Information Technology and the money saved because the city didn't need to buy salt for snow removal this year.

WHICH is true? 1. Philadelphia has one of the highest tax burdens of any major city, but also offers more services than any other city. 2. The city's tax burden falls right in the middle, but service delivery is far below other cities. 3. The taxes-to-services ratio in Philadelphia is well within the norm for major cities. None of the statements above is true, in part because they're all trick questions. In fact, the only truth is in the first question: Philadelphia's high tax burden.

ONE EVENING in Society Hill, on his daily jog, Brian Hamilton came across a ridiculous number of concrete slabs. The mother lode, if you will. Hundreds of the slabs, along with bundles of bricks and haphazardly placed wooden beams, lined Front Street near Walnut, taking up the equivalent of about half a city block. There's something you don't see every day. Except, Hamilton did start seeing the construction materials every day. It's been a year, he said, and they haven't budged.