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Amy Abernethy, M.D., is the latest former government official to join Verily, the Alphabet subsidiary announced Thursday.
It was only a few months ago that she departed from her role as principal deputy commissioner of food and drugs at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). She also served as the agency’s acting chief information officer.
On Wednesday,
The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream took a shot at the legendary South Jersey-based company Mister Softee.
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The company was founded in Philadelphia in 1956 and, since 1959, its headquarters has been located in Runnemede, New Jersey. You can’t grow up in the Philadelphia suburbs without hearing the iconic Mr. Softee ice cream truck jingle and instinctively start looking for some spare change in your pockets.
Last week, the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police reportedly parked a Mr. Softee ice cream truck outside of Philly District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office and gave out free ice cream. The political message: Krasner (who is notoriously anti-cop and turning Philly into a crime-ridden hellscape) is “soft on crime.”
Ocean City has hired a labor attorney with experience in employment workplace investigations to conduct an internal probe of the sexual misconduct claims that have recently been made against several employees of the Jersey Shore destination's beach patrol. The internal probe will work in concert with the investigation being conducted by the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office.
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