NEW YORK TIMES: The Mormon Church has declared its support for the Boy Scouts of America’s proposal to end a longstanding ban on openly gay youths, while continuing to bar gay adult leaders. The endorsement on Thursday by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the country’s largest sponsor of scout troops, is a […]
Month: April 2013
Holder Defends Mirandizing Boston Bombing Suspect
NEWSMAX: …Early on Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler showed up at the hospital unannounced with a federal prosecutor and public defender while the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was being questioned by the FBI. He was under interrogation for about 16 hours when Bowler read him his Miranda rights, according to news reports. The FBI […]
The Next Step in Drug Treatment
The country is beginning to realize that it cannot enforce or imprison its way out of the addiction problem. But to create broadly accessible and effective treatment strategies for the millions of people who need them, it must abandon the “drug war” approach to addiction that has dominated the national discourse in favor of a policy that treats addiction as a public health issue…
Harrisburg debt crisis solution imminent with incinerator sale, parking lease, officials say
The framework of the deal calls for selling the incinerator to the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority, and entering a 40-year-plus public-private partnership with Standard Parking, which runs Harrisburg International Airport garages and is the nation’s largest parking facility operator.
Europe Facing More Pressure to Reconsider Cuts as a Cure
After years of insisting that the primary cure for Europe’s malaise is to slash spending, the champions of austerity, most notably Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, find themselves under intensified pressure to back off unpopular remedies and find some way to restore faltering growth to the world’s largest economic bloc.
HIV vaccine trial shut down
LOS ANGELES TIME: In another major setback for efforts to develop an HIV vaccine, federal researchers have shut down a key clinical trial after an independent panel of safety experts determined that volunteers who got an experimental vaccine appeared to be slightly more likely to contract the human immunodeficiency virus than those who got a […]
Study: Nearly Half of Adults Still Without Adequate Health Coverage
The survey conducted for the New-York based Commonwealth Fund from April to August 2012, found that thirty percent of U.S. residents, or 55 million people, were uninsured for at least part of the year, while another 16 percent, or 30 million people, were underinsured, the Huffington Post reported Friday.
NEWSMAX
“Illegal immigrants can get food stamps on behalf of their eligible kids — without having to disclose their immigration status, according to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch.
Facebook exec Sheryl Sandberg: $845 million a year
USA TODAY: Seems like the whole world knows Mark Zuckerberg got $2.3 billion after Facebook went public last May. Turns out Sheryl Sandberg, an executive he lured away from Internet giant Google, did pretty well, too. Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, gained $821 million from shares that vested in 2012 and received another $25.6 million […]
It’s an outdoor show, not a gun show
Re: “Vendors: NRA’s no sales policy shows preference for manufacturers over local shops” I agree. It’s about money, not gun sales. Seems to me one can go to the show and see all kinds of outdoor products including guns. The fact you can’t take a gun home with you is meaningless. It’s an outdoor show, not […]
Spending cuts hold back US growth
FINANCIAL TIMES: The arrival of austerity in the US led to disappointing annualised growth of 2.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2013 as output was hit by a drop in federal defence spending. The figures suggest that across-the-board cuts in government spending – known as sequestration – are trapping the US economy in […]
Pennsylvania Turnpike CEO discusses steps taken in wake of scandal
Since then, Mr. Compton said this week, the turnpike has begun a review of contracts and reiterated its procurement policies to vendors. The review — announced in the days after the charges — initially targeted contracts from about 2003 to 2010, the years targeted in the investigation…
Poll: Dream of Homeownership Alive and Well, Even Among Youngsters
U. S. NEWS: Nearly seven in 10 Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 don’t currently own a home, but plan to make the big purchase within the next 10 years, according to Gallup. Less than 10 percent of respondents in that age group said they have no plans to buy a home in […]
NewsLanc acquires almost 2000 pages of Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority minutes
For the past week, reporter Bill Keisling has ‘buried himself’ in records obtained from the LCSWMA through an open records request. He has discovered startling information that provides hard facts and substantiation to previous NewsLanc speculations and contentions, as recently described in “Can the LCSWMA fish swallow the Harrisburg Incinerator whale?”