Certainly, these cases are not exactly hard to find—last week Deadline Hollywood highlighted the sad fate of Eunice Bellah, the widow of the late and acclaimed television and film art director Ross Bellah. A few years after her husband’s death, the longtime family accountant deposited Eunice Bellah in a nursing home, sold her residence, and listed possessions ranging from wheelchairs to artwork on Craigslist, with longtime family friends powerless to intervene.
Month: July 2015
Clinton campaign complains of’ ‘egregious’ New York Times reporting errors
POLITICO COLUMN: …”I feel obliged to put into context just how egregious an error this story was,” Palmieri continued. “The New York Times is arguably the most important news outlet in the world and it rushed to put an erroneous story on the front page charging that a major candidate for President of the United […]
Bailout Money Goes to Greece, Only to Flow Out Again
NEW YORK TIMES: …Much of the previous bailout funds have gone to pay off Greek bonds held by private investors and other eurozone governments, rather than stoke growth. Within Greece, the money was supposed to help replenish banks’ capital, to get them lending to revive the moribund economy. Instead, it sat in banks’ coffers as […]
Lancaster Democrat seeking nomination in 16th Congressional District
BERKS AND BEYOND: Christina M. Hartman has spent most of her career teaching others how democracy works… Although this is her first venture into the political arena as a candidate, Hartman said her passion for public service has been a driving force in her career to this point. In her work at the National Democratic […]
Murder charge against Cincinnati University policeman should alert Millersville U. and F & M administrators
Mr. Deters said that the university police force should be disbanded because policing is not what a university knows how to do, and that the campus should be patrolled by the Cincinnati Police Department.
Will AG Kane next investigate Lancaster Convention Center ‘miracle’?
“Lancaster city Mayor Rick Gray announced a plan Thursday to keep alive a hotel/convention center project by plugging a $20 million funding gap.”
Why Dem ‘big wigs’ really dislike Sestak
What Madonna doesn’t mention is Sestak’s real sin in the eyes of Democrat Party potentates: Against their wish, he ran against and defeated Sen. Arlen Specter in the 2010 Democrat primary.
Bashar al-Assad’s Luck May Finally Be Running Out
SLATE COUMN: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has played a weak hand so well for so long that it seems foolhardy to bet against him. Even as he’s lost control over a significant portion of his territory and presided over the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century, he’s kept his core supporters in line and […]
Tsukerman: Crimea Today
“Ukrainian sources report that Moscow, through business channels that include the CEO of one state-owned oil major, is quietly sounding out Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko on a grand bargain that would include Russia’s final withdrawal from the Donbass with Ukraine’s recognition of Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea in exchange for about $100 billion in debt forgiveness, gas price rebates and other financial incentives.”
The complexities of traffic stops, from a police officer’s perspective
WASHINGTON POST COLUMN: Early one December morning in East Baltimore in 2000, I saw a car drive by with its headlights off. For minor traffic violations, for honest mistakes — if the driver was sober, polite and carrying a valid license and registration — I would usually just issue a warning… Legally, morally and tactically, […]
Congress faces fall from hell
POLITICO: Speaker John Boehner, addressing a roomful of fellow House Republicans on Tuesday morning, described a major, six-year highway bill crafted by the Senate as a “piece of s—-,” according to sources in the room. Senate Republicans have been only slightly more charitable about the House’s three-month measure, calling it another lame procrastination on an […]
Lew warns of Puerto Rico debt risks to US
FINANCIAL TIMES: …A disorderly resolution to Puerto Rico’s debt problems would be costly not only for the territory but for the United States as a whole, the US Treasury Secretary has said as he urged Congress to take action to tackle the crisis. In a letter to Orrin Hatch, a top Republican senator, Jack Lew […]
Amnesty International faces backlash from Hollywood celebrities for proposing new policy on sex work
STRAIGHT.COM: …One of the world’s leading human-rights organizations has come under fire for its Amnesty International says its proposed policy “is based on the human rights principle that consensual sexual conduct between adults—which excludes acts that involve coercion, deception, threats, or violence—is entitled to protection from state interference”. It cites many examples in which criminalization […]
Capitolwire: Medical cannabis compromise continues to elude House leadership.
Marsico’s bill gives the Drug and Alcohol Department power to authorize up to five “medical marijuana organizations” who will handle every aspect of growing, processing and selling. Each of the organizations can operate four dispensaries.