Results tagged “attorneygeneral”

• Ed McMahon, a native of the Philadelphia area, died this morning. McMahon, as a teenager, sold vegetable slicers on the Atlantic City Boardwalk and was an announcer at carnivals and bingos.
• Friends Hospital has replaced its CEO amid accusations of inadequate oversight of patients. According to Gary Brown, a spokesman for the city's Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services, "we support the decision. There are long-standing concerns with quality of care that were not addressed."
• Democratic leaders in the Pennsylvania House and Senate support Governer Ed Rendell's proposal to increase the state's income tax. Rendell's proposal calls for an increase in income tax from 3.07 percent to 3.57 percent for three years to help close a budget gap projected to reach $3.2 billion.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram was ticketed for speeding last Friday after being clocked at 69 mph in a 50 mph zone. Ms. Milgram admits she was wrong and plans to pay the $176 ticket. She’ll also receive four points on her license.

The Attorney General's Office has accused Former State Rep. Frank LaGrotta of giving his relatives fake jobs in order to pay them thousands in taxpayer dollars. A cheval-de-frise (an iron-tipped log that's placed in a riverbed along with many others in order to gore the hulls of enemy warships) was recently found at the bottom of the Delaware River at the Sunoco Logistics pier in South Philadelphia. It's a relic from the mid-1770s, and...

As fall settles in and another calendar page gets turned, thoughts turn from bbq's and vacations to holidays and the realization that '06 is coming to an end. With all that going on, with change in the air, we wonder what is it the -ists ponder?

This has been a rough week for your -ist pals, though you wouldn't know it from the great posts all over the network. Plagued with server problems, our tech team (led by the great Neil Epstein) toiled around the clock to solve the glitches as they arose. Seriously, we've said, typed, and thought the phrase "server problems" more in the past week than we have for the last 35 years combined. Why not say it a few more times, just for fun? For example, SFist is sure the San Francisco Chronicle wishes they could blame server problems for this error. But this San Francisco man that appeared on "The Daily Show" is, sadly, no glitch in the system.