ALJAZEERA: …The Independent Budget Office found that in 2012 it cost the city $167,731 to hold each of its daily average of 12,287 inmates, or about $460 per inmate per day. Undergraduate tuition at Harvard University is $38,891 annually, or $155,564 for a four-year degree. Of those inmates, more than 2,000 were being held for […]
Month: September 2013
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA
Front page article “Computer problems create rift between libraries, Lancaster County library system” reports: “Computers are unreliable at some Lancaster County libraries, a city librarian has charged.
LETTER: “A disgrace to the profession”
“LNP will do whatever it takes to keep their PSP puppet in place. Their self-serving ‘journalism’ has become a disgrace to the profession.”
Obama Should Ignore the Debt Ceiling
If President Obama spends what the law orders him to spend and collects the taxes Congress has authorized him to collect, then he must borrow more than Congress has authorized him to borrow. If the debt ceiling is not raised, he will have to violate one of these constitutional imperatives.
LANCASTER NEW ERA
Editorial “Gay marriage and children” is sub-titled “Children of opposite-sex couples who are married tend to experience better outcomes.”
Mystery over £16.75bn piles of cash left at airport for six years
DAILY MAIL: A cargo of 20billion euros in cash (£16.75billion) has lain unclaimed at a Moscow airport for six years amid allegations it could be the secret fortune of Saddam Hussein. The stash, now under high security in a cargo depot, is held on 200 wooden pallets each worth 100 million euros, enough to keep […]
Conservatives Embrace Cut in Mandatory Sentences
NEWSMAX: It’s not just liberal Democrats trying to get rid of mandatory sentencing laws – conservatives, including Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and others have joined the fight… The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a leader in the effort with its Right on Crime Project. The project has been used on the state level in Georgia, […]
Exchanges open Tuesday: Here’s what to do
USA TODAY: … Step one: Figure out if you’re eligible to buy a plan on your state’s exchange. Start at HealthCare.gov, the federal government’s portal, which will route you to your state or allow you to create an account if the feds are running your state’s insurance marketplace. Plug in details about where you live, […]
Marcellus Shale pipeline to Phila. pondered
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: A group of Philadelphia business and political leaders wants to develop an ambitious Marcellus Shale natural gas pipeline to the city to fuel the growth of energy-intensive industries. The informal group is in the early stages of exploring a project that would connect Pennsylvania’s booming natural gas fields directly to Philadelphia. The project […]
Senate Action on Health Law Moves to Brink of Shutdown
NEW YORK TIMES: The Senate is expected to reject decisively a House bill that would delay the full effect of President Obama’s health care law as a condition for keeping the government running past Monday, as Senator Harry Reid, the Democratic majority leader, expressed confidence that he had public opinion on his side. Angering Republicans […]
Pussy Riot member hospitalized
ALJAZEERA: Jailed hunger-striking Pussy Riot punk band member, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is refusing food in protest over what she has called murder threats and “slave labor conditions,” was moved to a hospital Sunday, an official said. An officer on duty at hospital No. 21 in the village of Barashevo in the Mordovia region told Agence […]
More gas taxes widen gap between rich and poor
If you drive in Pennsylvania, look to pay 40 to 50 cents more per gallon, likely starting in 2014, certainly by the next year.
The movement to shaft the poor advances in Harrisburg when House Republicans trot out their version of the transportation-funding bill. Following passage this week, it will go to a conference committee to work out the differences between the “R” version in the House with the “R” version in the Senate.
Is Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. riding to Rick Gray’s rescue?
Over the past week, the following front page articles appeared, all consisting of hundred of words (one a thousand) and portraying Mayor Rick Gray in a positive and sympathetic light:
THE SUNDAY NEWS
Column: “THE RIGHT SIDE: Politics is making me sick“ “There is an ever-shrinking pool of people with whom one can discuss politics rationally and civilly.” “I am perhaps most disgusted with my own party as I have watched the GOP fragment themselves into basically a bunch of Lone Rangers and extremist cliques who can’t work […]