FINANCIAL TIMES: The US Federal Reserve downgraded its assessment of the economy on Wednesday but made no changes to policy after second-quarter growth came in at an unexpectedly strong annualised rate of 1.7 per cent… The largely unchanged statement suggests the rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee is comfortable with its plan to slow asset purchases […]
Month: July 2013
Spanish train driver was ‘on phone and reading at time of rail crash’ that killed 79
Investigators told a preliminary hearing at the Court of Justice of Galicia that Mr Garzon 52, only slammed on the brakes “seconds before the crash”. They said he was answering a call from the state rail company, Renfe, and consulting a paper document at the time. The driver is charged with negligent homicide.
Republican Sen. Corker: Efforts to Defund Obamacare ‘Silly’
NEWSMAX: …The Tennessee senator, appearing on MSNBC Tuesday, said Republican lawmakers need to get to work dealing with spending decisions that matter, reports The Washington Post. “I think it’s a silly effort,” Corker said. “What people are really saying who are behind that effort is we don’t have the courage to roll up our sleeves […]
Teen dating abuse is common and complex, studies say
Additional new research shows teens who abuse their girlfriends and boyfriends often share a past as middle-school bullies.
The cost of ignorance and politics: $14 trillion
HUFFINGTON POST: …So how bad was it? Really, really bad: The economists say a “conservative” estimate of the damage is $14 trillion, or roughly one year’s U.S. gross domestic product. This is based on how much output was lost during the crisis and Great Recession, along with all the damage done to potential future economic growth.
Global fertiliser shake-up after cartel falls apart
In a move likened to a break-up of Opec, the oil producers’ club that controls output, Uralkali pulled out of the Belarus Potash Corporation export cartel after it accused its Belarusian partner of violating an agreement and selling outside the partnership…
Penn State Ex-Officials Ordered By Judge To Stand Trial In Sandusky Coverup Case
Prosecutors showed enough evidence during a two-day preliminary hearing to warrant a trial for ex-President Graham Spanier, former vice president Gary Schultz and ex-athletic director Tim Curley, District Judge William Wenner concluded.
State sues Montgomery Co. clerk to stop issuing same sex marriage licenses
FOX 43: Pennsylvania files a lawsuit against the Montgomery County Clerk of Orphans Court over the issuing of same sex marriage licenses. In the lawsuit the state Health Department petitioned Commonwealth Court to order D. Bruce Hanes, to stop issuing marriage licenses to same sex couples in violation of Pennsylvania law. Pennsylvania’s Marriage Law defines […]
Gov. Corbett’s office allows LCB lawyer to write column
Gov. Tom Corbett’s Office of Administration has overruled the Liquor Control Board and will allow staff attorney Alan Kennedy-Shaffer to write a column for a trade journal.
Bradley Manning Found Guilty Of Multiple Counts, Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy
HUFFINGTON POST: Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who laid bare America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by covertly transmitting a massive trove of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, has been convicted on 19 of 21 charges, including 5 counts of espionage. He was found not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious and controversial charge laid against him.
Keisling on Pennsylvania Politics Index
Index of the ongoing series by Bill Keisling Six Decades of PA’s Governors, AG’s & Republicans Six Decades of PA’s Governors, AGs, and Republicans: Part One Six Decades of PA’s Governors, AGs, and Republicans: Part Two Harrisburg Watershed Series Part One- Private interests seek to grab invaluable water shed for pennies on the dollar Part […]
Scientists Seek to Rein In Diagnoses of Cancer
The recommendations, from a working group of the National Cancer Institute, were published on Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association. They say, for instance, that some premalignant conditions, like one that affects the breast called ductal carcinoma in situ, which many doctors agree is not cancer, should be renamed to exclude the word carcinoma so that patients are less frightened and less likely to seek what may be unneeded and potentially harmful treatments that can include the surgical removal of the breast.
Pa. Lottery’s booming, so why change course?
…So this is probably not the best time for news to emerge that Illinois is having some trouble with its foray into privatized lottery operations, having failed to reach its profit targets for a second consecutive year.
Scranton foresaw future, predicted political paralysis arising from extremism
In his attempt to wrest the 1964 Republican presidential nomination from arch-conservative Sen. Barry Goldwater, Mr. Scranton warned that his party and the nation could not prosper if the GOP had “one foot in the 20th century and one in the 19th.”