Bill To Discourage Hit-and-Runs Expected to Become Law After Push by Bicycle Activists
Coming in somewhere between ‘Liquor’ and ‘Voter ID’ on Pennsylvania’s long list of weird laws might be the hit-and-run loophole. Until House Bill 208 is signed, the penalty for leaving the scene of a fatal hit and run is lesser than that for being involved in a fatal DUI. The current law, then, gives murderous drivers an incentive to leave the scene...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Corbett Admin. Releases Welfare Adviser who Wrote Weird Stuff
Gov. Tom Corbett’s Welfare Secretary Gary Alexander hired a…how do I put this lightly…complete weirdo to act as a welfare adviser. He’s Robert W. Patterson, he edits a journal called “The Family in America”—which we’re going to get a subscription to, you’ll see why—and his now-former job in the Corbett Administration afforded him $104,470...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Allegations of Child Sex Abuse in Penn State Football Program
Former longtime Penn State defense coordinator Jerry Sandusky faces 40 counts of charges related to the sexual abuse of children and could spend the rest of his life in jail if convicted. Coach Joe Paterno, who’s said to have passed on information related to Sandusky when he heard about it, released a statement this weekend. “The fact that someone...
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Philly State Rep. Beats DUI Charge
State Rep. Cherelle Parker, who represents parts of Northwest Philly, including Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill, had a drunk driving case against her thrown out this morning. She’d been accused of driving drunk at twice the legal limit at 12:35am on April 30 and was pulled over after she went the wrong way down a one-way street in a state-owed vehicle....
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Can Pennsylvania Bars be Charged for a Patron’s DUI?
As we’ve all heard by now, ‘Jackass’ MTV personality Ryan Dunn was killed in a drunk driving accident earlier this week. He’d allegedly been hanging out at Barnaby’s in West Chester beforehand and had his Porsche 911 GT3 up to an estimated 130 miles per hour before losing control on Route 322 in West Goshen Township, hitting a guardrail and crashing...
Continue ReadingThis Weekend, Don’t Get a DUI (Seriously)
The Philly government sent us this press release all about things blowing up in our faces, er, DUIs. Its title was “Don’t Let This Fourth of July Blow Up in Your Face!” We were hoping it was about firecrackers. During the July 4th holiday period in 2009, including the weekends before and after, 427 impaired driving-related crashes and 17 fatalities...
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