Are Penn State, Pitt and Tom Corbett in the pocket of Marcellus Shale Industry?

Host Ira Glass tells the stories of two professors, each making a calculation that no one had made before. One gets acclaim. One ends up out of a job. The first, Terry Engelder, a geologist at Penn State, was estimating the amount of natural gas that’s recoverable from the Marcellus shale, a giant rock formation that’s under Pennsylvania and several other Eastern states. The second, Conrad “Dan” Volz, at the University of Pittsburgh, estimated how much toxic crap—chemicals and pollution from gas exploration—might be getting into water supplies. (6 1/2 minutes) … (more)

EDITOR: For the sake of themselves and their children and grandchildren, every Pennsylvanian needs to hear this.

Bond concerns spark debate over convention center, hotel tax

Bond concerns spark debate over convention center, hotel tax

From the CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA BUSINESS JOURNAL: …Apart from the bond payments, the convention center is performing as or better than expected, [Kevin Moloy, Executive Director of the LCCCA] said. It has beaten its budget targets the past two years and is generating on average 1,500 “spillover” room-nights a month, he said, or 18,000 a year — in other words, nearly 50 rooms a night for other hotels in the area to supply…

Castille stuns state by leading court majority to bounce redistricting plan.

Castille stuns state by leading court majority to bounce redistricting plan.

CAPITOL WIRE: (Jan. 25) – Justice Ron Castille led a Supreme Court majority to one of the most stunning decisions in state political-legal history today. And he crossed party lines to do it, voting with three Democrats against his three fellow Republican Supreme Court justices, to send the Legislative Reapportionment Commission’s state House and Senate redistricting back to the drawing board.

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Convention Center Series

Convention Center Series Index

Convention Center Series Index

Prologue Chapter One: Genesis Chapter Two: The Dream Team: Penn Square Partners Chapter ...

Convention Center Authority calls for increase in Hotel Room Sales Tax

Kevin R. Molloy, the executive director of the Lancaster County ...

Santa Monica Reporter

HOLIDAY DISAPPOINTMENTS: “Holmes,” “Hugo,” and “Young Adult”

HOLIDAY DISAPPOINTMENTS: “Holmes,” “Hugo,” and “Young Adult”

By Dan Cohen, Santa Monica Reporter "GAMES OF SHADOWS" Any resemblance between ...

Women in jeopardy: three very different thrillers

By Dan Cohen, Santa Monica reporter “The Skin I Live In” When ...

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Observations at the top of “Things to do” list

“To be and not to do is not to be ...

Birth rate plummets in Brazil

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LGH Series

How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care

How Doctors Could Rescue Health Care

By Arnold S. Relman, MD * From THE NEW YORK REVIEW: ...

San Francisco marks 600th drug overdose prevention

By Phillip Smith From the DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: For the past eight ...

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Timeline: Penn State / Sandusky / Corbett

Timeline: Penn State / Sandusky / Corbett

By Bill Keisling Editor's note: Associates of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett ...

‘JoePa’ takes the fall: Tom Corbett throws Joe Paterno under the bus, inept media, and the decline of the Pennsylvania Attorney General Office

by Bill Keisling "What counts in sports is not the victory, ...