DAILY GRINDER: PW Abuse Awareness Essays Due in 3 Weeks
To reiterate from this week’s issue, PW Senior Editor Nina Hoffmann made a point to note Philadelphia Weekly is still looking for first-person essays for our upcoming sexual abuse project. “I called for first-person essays from abuse survivors, their loved ones and counselors in order to show that healing from sexual abuse does not occur in a vacuum. It requires...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Philly Police Spokesman in Shore Barfight
Philadelphia Police Lt. and spokesman Ray Evers was allegedly in a barfight in Avalon, New Jersey. He claims he was “assaulted by several people” early on June 17 and taken to a hospital. He says it’s no big deal, but he made a report and police are looking into it. A Northeast Philly man has been arrested for allegedly starving his elderly father to death....
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At Philly COPS Grant Announcement, Support For Attorney General Holder
Several area political leaders were on hand in the Mayor’s Reception Room in City Hall yesterday afternoon to unveil a federal COPS grant to the City of Philadelphia worth $3.125 million, which will partially fund 25 police officers—specifically, post-9/11 military veterans-turned-police—for three years. Those officials, Rep. Bob Brady; Mayor Michael Nutter;...
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DAILY GRINDER: Philly Police Face Cameras Offer Cyborg-Like Advantage
Horses? Check. Cameras? Check. Invincibility? Soon. Philadelphia police are going to begin testing tiny cameras attached to their glasses, hat or collar. Police Chief Ramsey says a police force the size of Philadelphia’s might be hard to equip, if they want to move forward with the idea, but that “if there is a complaint that occurs at a later time you do...
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May Day Poster Depicts Decapitated Police Officer
Occupy Philadelphia protesters, and perhaps others, are making their case to join their in-progress May Day celebrations by email and on a website today, called MayDayPhilly.com. On that site is the schedule of operations and two images, one of the Monopoly guy being pulled down from a Wall St. statue ala a precious-metallic Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, circa 2003....
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DAILY GRINDER: Mumia Blasts Philly Schools
Convicted Philly cop killer Mumia Abu Jamal is not happy with this Philadelphia School System we’ve got and thinks it needs to be changed. In a recent interview from the Frackville correction facility in Northeast Pennsylvania to Russia Today, a Russian government-owned website often dedicated to conspiracy theories in the United States, he said, “The...
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DAILY GRINDER: George W. Bush Coming to Philly Burbs for Primary
I come out when no one's looking. The primary is coming April 24. And so is George W. Bush. He’s coming to Bucks County. Seriously. That day. Hide your children because remember that guy? Larry Mendte does not like when you refer to him as an “email aficionado.” Need proof? Check out this path of destruction he posted to Philadelphia Magazine’s...
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SEPTA Transit Police on Strike
SEPTA Transit Police—those guys who give you the $75 tickets when you forget to put your rail sodas in brown bags—began striking at 2 p.m. today. Last we heard about this, the strike was simply in “threat” form over having worked under the same contract that ended April 1, 2011. The union wanted a 24 percent wage hike, though were set to accept an 11.5...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Powder Sent to Sen. Toomey’s Office; Commenters Crack Case
A “Suspicious” white powder (which contained only cornstarch) was sent to Sen. Pat Toomey’s office and first noticed by an intern. Authorities are looking into it, but in the meantime, commenters at the bottom of this article are doing their damndest to figure it out. Very likely, according to them, the powder either came from Toomey himself...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Former Philly ‘Supercop’ to Head Bahrain Police
Former Philadelphia Police Chief and ‘Supercop’ John Timoney, who presided over brutal police beatings at the 2000 Republican National Convention in Philly and the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas summit in Miami (in which the ACLU accused Miami police of using excessive force, unlawfully arresting bystanders, the usual…) has gone on a little tropical...
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