From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …Senate members applauded two motions Tuesday containing withering criticism of the public condemnations Penn State received this summer from former FBI Director Louis Freeh and NCAA President Mark Emmert.
Month: August 2012
Catalonia heightens Spanish debt fears
FINANCIAL TIMES: Catalonia will request an emergency €5bn credit line from Spain’s central government as the region struggles to refinance its debts, underscoring anxieties about the eurozone debt crisis a week before the European Central Bank is expected to unveil details of its revamped bond-buying programme. The government of Catalonia, which has debts of €42bn […]
Penn State Faculty denounce Freeh Report and NCAA actions
On a foundation of scant evidence, the report adds layers of conjecture and supposition to create a portrait of fault, complicity, and malfeasance that could well be at odds with the truth. We make no judgment of the culpability of those individuals directly surrounding the Sandusky crimes. We lack sufficient knowledge to do so, and we are content to wait until guilt or innocence is adjudicated by the courts. But as scientists and scholars, we can say with conviction that the Freeh Report fails on its own merits as the indictment of the University that some have taken it to be. Evidence that would compel such an indictment is simply not there.
Patriot-News merging with Pennlive, reducing print edition to three days a week
Under the new company, The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week beginning in January 2013. At the same time, the organization will intensify its online and digital news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
LETTER: LCCCA’s failure to find innovative potential solutions
…The Martin Plan did not require money or lawyers, just some effort and a desire to share the burden of this disaster that does little or nothing to the group currently saddled with bulk of the funding. This LCCCA may be better but their silence on PSP, what are they afraid of at this point, and their utter failure to find innovative potential solutions confirms them as PSP’s puppet. By the way, the mere $35K in cuts that Martin seeks from them is a pittance.
New nondriver photo ID card is unveiled
Voters who lack the documents necessary for a Pennsylvania nondriver’s ID card will now be able to obtain a free Department of State voter identification card at Department of Transportation driver’s license centers…
DEP proposes stronger rules for regulating shale industry
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: A state proposal to make far-reaching amendments to oil and gas regulations governing Marcellus Shale gas development indicates stronger rules are needed to protect Pennsylvania’s surface and groundwater resources. But it’s too early to tell if the more than 100 proposed changes in a 23-page draft “concept paper” from the state Department of […]
Judge orders cash-starved Harrisburg to raise city income tax
YORK DISPATCH / AP: …Commonwealth Court Judge Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter said raising the rate from 1 percent to 2 percent was a critical component of the debt-strapped state capital’s recovery plan. Someone who earns $50,000 would see a $500 tax increase. She said courts generally should not intrude into such a legislative task under the […]
Arlen Specter Hospitalized With ‘Serious’ Condition
HUFFINGTON POST: Former Sen. Arlen Specter has been hospitalized with a “serious illness,” friends and family of the Pennsylvania lawmaker confirmed to Philly.com on Monday. According to the Philadelphia Daily News’ Dan Gross, sources declined to comment on the nature of the 82-year-old’s condition… Specter, who switched party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in 2009, […]
France would recognize Syrian opposition govt
FRANCE 24 / AP – French President Francois Hollande urged Syria’s divided opposition to form a provisional government, promising that France would recognize it in hopes of upping the pressure on President Bashar Assad’s regime as the violence escalates in the Arab country. The French leader, clearly frustrated with reticence from China and Russia in […]
Cannabis smoking by youths ‘permanently lowers IQ’
TELEGRAPH: Researchers found persistent users of the drug, who started smoking it at school, had lower IQ scores as adults. They looked at data from over 1,000 people from Dunedin in New Zealand, who have been followed through their lives since being born in 1972 or 1973. Persistent users meant those who used it during […]
LETTER: Convention Center Authority itself is starved of funds
When former LCCCA chair Ted Darcus (vocally supported by former board member Joe Morales) loudly discouraged other board members from even reading what they were voting on, and giving them no time to study or question it, they were able to slip through iron-clad one-sided “agreements” which not only tie the hands of the current LCCCA, they also for all intents and purposes starve the LCCCA for operating funds (the convention center is a separate entity).
Arctic sea ice ‘hits record low’
ALJAZEERA: …The Arctic sea ice fell to 4.10 million sq km, some 70,000 sq km less than the earlier record charted on 2007, the lowest since satellites began measuring the ice in 1979, according to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center on Monday. “It’s a little surprising to see the 2012 Arctic sea […]
Let the criminal justice system decide if NCAA went too far
First, I am not upset. However, the jury found Sadusky guilty; he will die in jail. Justice…..maybe not…but the judicial system, not academic politics, decided his fate…and he will get the most severe punishment he can under the laws of the Commonwealth.That’s good! Curly and Shultz ; any others involved ….will also be dealt with […]