Peak Johnson

The so called writer…

Preamble coming soon…but check out my many posts in my blog section

Also note that some of my pages have been taken down, working on updating them, they will be back up soon.

June is the cruelest month for many Shore businesses
OCEAN CITY, N.J. - A cool, wet spring that coasted into a cool, wet early summer has made it a rough ride for Jack Glanzmann and his bike-rental concession. […]
The end of a bridal era
It's the last day of business at Suky, the Delaware Valley's premiere bridal boutique, and owner Mary Helen Ranieri is still the consummate image-maker. […]
Unemployment reaches 9.5 percent
Even as economists and pundits talk wistfully about the barest hints of recovery, the nation's payrolls continued to disgorge workers: 467,000 of them in June. […]

Elmer Smith: The beating was wrong, but was prosecution worse?
WE SAW them squirming on the ground, fending off the kicks and nightstick blows in that televised police feeding frenzy. […]
Body found in Fairmount Park is identified
The body that a jogger discovered Wednesday in Fairmount Park was identified yesterday as Christopher Jermaine Scott. Now detectives are trying to figure out how Scott, 36, a transvestite prostitute, got there. […]
Disciplined judge won't try criminal cases
Common Pleas Judge Willis Berry Jr. has recused himself from presiding over criminal cases following a request by the District Attorney's Office. […]

"Everyone needs that access. It's not an option''
The access is to broadband Internet and the speaker is Vice President Biden, who unveiled the rules for $7.2B in stimulus funds for broadband in Erie County, PA. The announcement was made in a rural part of the county, but the county is also home to the fourth-largest city in the state (and to my family - hello!). Video of Biden shows him speaking about broa […]
To sign or not to sign – tensions rise over Ackerman demand
Despite high hopes that contract negotiations between the District and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers would take on a more cooperative character this year, talks are being held in a contentious atmosphere complicated by Superintendent Arlene Ackerman's demand that teachers sign individual contracts. read more […]
R.I.P. MJ - A Future Media Literacy Project
Last Thursday I turned in my classroom keys and told my teacher friends and colleagues to have a good summer break. Walking home, as I customarily do, I thought of my plans for the summer. More time at the gym, Latin dancing, attending few a media literacy conferences - the normal exciting stuff teachers do to reenergize ourselves for the next school year. […]