Results tagged “localnews”

• SFist saw Christmas Day turn tragic after a Siberian tiger escaped from her pen at the San Francisco Zoo, killing a visitor and mauling two others.
• Phillyist counted down the top ten items on Philadelphia's New Year's wish list.
• Gothamist looked at the wooden bikes being offered for NYC's first bike share program on Governors Island.

Every weekday of December (except for December 25, that is), Phillyist will be counting down to 2008 with our highlights from the past year and our predictions for the next. If you have a list you'd like to submit, let us know!

We at the Gothamist network would like to express our heartfelt wishes to the people of Minnesota in the days after their tragic bridge collapse. We're not trying to discount the severity of the accident by making note of it in opposition to our usual -Ist lightheartedness – we just wanted to take a moment and recognize those affected last week.

WCAU newscast changes are officially in the works

Please welcome another new author to our team, G. W. Bridge, whose diverse talents include reviewing pizza places, and covering local news items, as he does below.

City Councilman Rick Mariano, a local politician who has had federal indictment rumors swirling about him recently, climbed onto a ledge and City Hall tonight and threatened to commit suicide. He was talked down from the ledge by Mayor John Street and Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson.

A SEPTA strike is looming in the City of Brotherly Love. For those of us who have lived through a SEPTA strike and rely on public transit, the idea is vaguely terrifying. Bike riding on city streets is a gamble -- the vast majority of city drivers refuse to share the road with bicyclists or pedestrians, and many of the side streets are giant pot hole-infested bike wreckers. And dishing out cab fare plus that extra 19.4% PGW rate hike means many of us will be living the life of a very poor hermit shortly.

Some Phillyist writers aren't down with the public nudity, but some of us dig it - if only because it makes for bizarre local news. Take, for instance, what happened today at 8th and Market: