It's been a tough year for Mayor Reed, he lost his primary election to Linda Thompson,his hand picked Board of Control has run up $588 million in debt while the school district entered it's seventh year of Corrective Action, the City became the first municipality in the history of the Commonwealth to default on it's bond obligations,16 homicides during the year were more than Washington D.C. per capita, his Fire and National Civil War museums are such money pits that we look for both to close in 2010, the second oldest business in the city (Patriot News) announced plans to relocate to Cumberland County, and just when things couldn't get any worse don't forget about the multi million dollar McCormick Island strip search lawsuit and those pesky Dauphin County Commissioners suing Harrisburg and Reed for some 40 or 50 or 60 million dollars because Hartwick-Haste-DiFrancesco signed as guarantor's of Reed's failed incinerator retro-fit project. A tough year indeed.