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Erie PA News and Events for Tuesday February 21, 2006
Posted by Dennis on February 21, 2006
The Erie County Public Defender’s office is a mess. Now I don’t want some slick lawyer getting criminals off but I don’t want to see innocent people behind bars. Ian Murray was re-hired to be an assistant in the office he was fired from nearly 12 years ago. Now, Chief Public Defender Tony Logue was caught lying and giving poor representation to a client. Logue claimed he had checked on an alibi, when in fact he didn’t. It could have and should have led to an acquittal. The guy might now have been innocent but it appears he wasn’t quite quilty of everything. The story is from the Erie newspaper but I didn’t see it on their site so here is the link to the Associated Press story.
The University of Pittsburgh has received a $5 million gift from alumnus John M Petersen and his wife, Gertrude, to create an endowment supporting research in nanoscale science and technology at Pitt’s Institute of NanoScience and Engineering, now the Gertrude E and John M Petersen Institute of NanoScience and Engineering. John Petersen, the retired president and chief executive officer of the Erie Insurance Group in Erie, Pa, earned the Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Pitt in 1951.
The city settled with the federal government over the police agility test. The city taxpayers have to pay $170,000 over a couple of years into a fund for the women that couldn’t climb over a 6 foot fence and failed the agility test and also give priority to hiring of five females. I’m surprised the payment was that low. I’d figured it would have been over a half million dollars. Since Erie has 26 laid-off cops have have to hired back first, it could be a decade or two before any females are hired.
Lincoln Foundry, located at 1600 Industrial Drive in Erie, PA is one of the businesses featured on The Discovery Channel show Dirty Jobs. The show is on tonight at 9 pm.
Books for booze? Yesterday, there was a tent set up in the parking lot of the Cornerstone Bar and Grill announcing a group was paying cash for Mercyhurst College text books.
Denise McCloskey of Tylersburg PA, who has been serving as acting executive director, has been named director of the Northwest Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission.
I stumbled upon the blog From The Heart, from an Erie area adoption group for parents in all stages of the adoption process both domestic and international.
According to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates continued a climb reaching an average 6.28 percent for a 30-year fixed mortgage and 5.91 for a 15-year mortgage.
The Highmark Quad Games Cross County Ski and Snowshoe Race is now scheduled for Sunday Feb 26 at 1 pm at Peek’n Peak. The event was originally scheduled for Jan 8, then pushed back to Jan 15, then Jan 22, then Jan 29, and then Feb 5, etc.
Erie Youth Hockey Association Joe McCallion House Select Tourney will take place in Erie PA February 24- 26, 2006.
The theater group All An Act Productions is performing the comedy “The Middle Ages” by AR Gurney. The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 pm and Sundays at 3 pm through March 5th at East High School, located at 1001 Atkins Street, Erie, Pa 16503. General Admission is $5.
Posted by Dennis at February 21, 2006 7:02 AM
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