Article “Pennsylvania Academy of Music’s future remains cloudy” reports: “The fate of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music was in the hands of its eight board members Tuesday night…And, after a lengthy meeting, that’s where the future of the private music school remained… Late last week, Godfrey announced the school needed $175,000 to meet payroll and […]
Month: March 2011
Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril
From the NEW YORK TIMES: Heroic workers and firefighters continued to cool the volatile reactors by pumping in hundreds of tons of water a day. Much-awaited electricity had reached the plant after a rush to extend new power lines, ready to hook up to vital cooling systems and guide the plant to a long-term “cold […]
On NBC, the missing story about parent company General Electric
From WASHINGTON POST / AP: The story that General Electric did not pay federal taxes last year was widely reported everywhere but NBC. It’s the kind of accountability journalism that makes readers raise an eyebrow, if it doesn’t raise their blood pressure first. General Electric Co., reported the New York Times last week, earned $14.2 billion […]
Poll: Gov. Christie Leads GOP Pack
From NEWSMAX: An exclusive Newsmax/IBOPE Zogby International poll shows New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie so dominates the GOP field for 2012 that he garners more than twice as many votes as his nearest Republican competitor. The new poll reflects growing momentum for Christie, despite his repeated insistence that he’s not ready to be president and […]
Nuclear Safety Official Warned Earthquakes a ‘Serious Problem’: WikiLeaks
From ABC NEWS: Months after a senior Japanese International Atomic Energy Agency official urged better safety procedures at nuclear plants around the world to “avoid another Chernobyl,” another IAEA official said that earthquakes presented a “serious problem” to nuclear plant safety, according to a recently released U.S. State Department cable…. Other leaked U.S. State Department […]
Certainly the bank knew
“No wonder the city has cash flow problems. The county assessment office should check on all the privately owned buildings that are leased to some form of government. The assessors will find that taxes are paid on the full assessed value of said properties…
The best things in life are free!
Yes you can blame the government…they also bought over their heads and passed the bill on to the taxpayer. Rising costs, shrinking salaries, rising food costs and shrinking product volumn. Paying more for less. Credit card companies who went to the college campuses to sign up young people for credit cards…
Home prices fall across US
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: …The S&P/Case-Shiller home price index showed prices of single-family homes in the 20 largest US cities fell 0.2 per cent from December to January on a seasonally adjusted basis. Economists had expected a 0.4 per cent decline. Prices were 3.1 per cent lower than January 2010, in line with economists’ forecasts. […]
An exchange over Libya
KZ: This war is starting out with less support than Iraq and Afghanistan had, only a plurality, 47%. Usually we are in the 65% area when we begin wars but then, this one did not have the big propaganda build up. If Ghadhafi does not go quickly this work could really hurt [President Obama] politically. WATCHDOG: […]
Russian sends open letter to Mssrs. Obama, Cameron, Sarkozy
“This is a very interesting open letter from the Editor of English Pravda about Libya. No doubt he could not write this without permission of the Kremlin and without Russian intelligence information. It raises lots and lots of interesting questions that raise issues about whether the U.S. is misleading the American public. . .” KZ […]
World Powers Seek Possible Deal for Gadhafi Exit
From AOL/ AP: LONDON — International leaders were gathering in London on Tuesday seeking to plot out an endgame for Moammar Gadhafi’s tottering regime and to strike agreement on plans for Libya’s future. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Arab League and as many as 40 global foreign ministers […]
Will Obama violate the arms embargo in Libya?
From SALON.COM: The Obama administration is now openly talking about arming the rebels in Libya, raising the question of whether such a move would be legal given that there is a U.N. arms embargo covering all of the country. The answer: It depends on whom you ask. The possibility of giving weapons to the rebels […]
D.C. to review high rates of erasures on school tests
From USA TODAY: The District of Columbia’s Board of Education will hold a hearing next week on irregularities in public school test scores, even as former chancellor Michelle Rhee defended the integrity of test results that showed unusual “erasure rates” from wrong answers to right. Rhee, who said Monday night that the investigation “absolutely lacked […]
President Obama no emperor
The United States has been trying for the last three years to get military bases on the African continent. Bush set up AfriCom and put a black general in charge and he was unable to convince any country to accept a base. Obama made a trip to Africa and also tried, but was unable to […]