Results tagged “tomridge”

  • Nearly 2000 employees at DuPont's South Philly lab are being laid off.
  • Yo, Philly in the News

  • Former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge is eyeing the Senate sources say. Ridge would run against new Democrat Arlen Specter.
  • Leonard P. Luchko, a top computer technician for State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo pleaded guilty yesterday and told a federal judge that he followed Fumo's orders to erase e-mails being sought by federal agents investigating the powerful Philadelphia Democrat. Apparently he failed to erase incriminating e-mails from his own devices, however.
  • US Department of Justice lawyers had requested that federal observers be stationed in polling places in Philly's Latino neighborhoods on Tuesday, but a three-judge panel has rejected the idea. The City Solicitor had argued that their presence might be intimidating and decrease participation; he also says plenty of translation services will be available. Hmm... Well, we'll see.
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