“The board’s secrecy, [Judge Eakin] wrote, “has led to unfortunate and wholly misguided accusations against the integrity of its process, as well as the integrity of the Board’s members and staff.
Month: November 2015
Marriott expansion plan would include 105 new hotel rooms, demolition of 3 downtown buildings
LANCASTERONLINE: The city’s Historical Commission got its first look at plans for a 12-story, 105-room expansion of the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square. The addition would address an identified shortage of hotel rooms needed to attract larger conventions to the Lancaster County Convention Center, which adjoins the Marriott, Thomas Smithgall, a representative of Penn Square […]
PAcourt says porn emails aren’t public records but does not prohibit their release
YAHOO / AP: A Pennsylvania court says pornographic emails on attorney general’s office computers are not public records under the state Right-to-Know Law, but the judges aren’t stopping Attorney General Kathleen Kane from releasing them. Commonwealth Court ruled 6-to-1 Thursday against a request by The Philadelphia Inquirer to release the emails, saying “public records” under […]
Capitolwire: Kane’s suspension creates ‘enormous challenges’ for OAG, top deputy says.
By Kevin Zwick Staff Reporter Capitolwire HARRISBURG (Nov. 18) – Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s law license suspension is putting both internal and external pressure on the office that “requires constant vigilance,” four of her top deputies testified Wednesday. “The confluence of the internal and external problems is really significant. It’s hard to overstate the issue,” […]
Russian’s attitude towards ISIS
On Tuesday, November 17, 2015, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officially announced that the crash of A321 plane en route to St. Petersburg in Sinai was caused by a terrorist attack. When the Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed on October 31, killing all 224 people aboard, Russian media didn’t even list terrorist act as one of the possible causes of the catastrophe.
Philadelphia Inquirer twists logic to try to have it both ways
“Given the shared confidences and cozy connections among judges and the body that is supposed to police them, there can be no mystery about the kid-gloves treatment of Eakin or any of the commonwealth’s other wayward jurists. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court’s deeply unsatisfying response has been to order the conduct board to investigate Eakin again.”
Obama: GOP refugee opponents ‘scared of widows and orphans’
THE HILL: … “Apparently they are scared of widows and orphans coming into the United States of America,” [President] Obama said of Republicans. “At first, they were too scared of the press being too tough on them in the debates. Now they are scared of three year old orphans. That doesn’t seem so tough to […]
U.S. must change strategy toward Islamic State
Second, and most importantly, we must lead diplomatically in bringing about the necessary “alliance of convenience” among those states opposed to ISIS — most significantly, those that are often adversarial to U.S. interests.
Who loses most when sales taxes are increased
ABOUT.COM:… •Seniors. People do not earn income at a steady rate during their lifetime. The bulk of most people’s earnings occur before the age of 65. People over the age of 65 have vastly reduced incomes and typically live off the savings they earned while employed in addition to programs like Social Security. A switch […]
When management passes from owners to professionals and generation to generation, values are often lost
This may go far to explain why LNP professes estimable values in issues not relevant to their investments in Lancaster and act in a scurrilous manner when its interests and influence are at stake here in Lancaster.
Here’s $360 million reasons to raise Pa.’s minimum wage
PENNLIVE OP-ED: …Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Appropriations staff estimates that raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour would result in $130 million in additional tax revenue. Second, according to the University of California, Berkeley 2015 report, “The High Public Cost of Low Wages,” the majority of Pennsylvania families who rely on public assistance are working. […]
Mennonite Farmers Prepare to Leave Mexico
NEW YORK TIMES: On the edge of a high plain fringed by craggy sandstone hills, Johan Friesen’s small farm is a testament to the rural providence of his Mennonite people. Neat fields of onion, soybean and yellow corn stretch behind his concrete and adobe house. In the farmyard, a few dozen cows stand in a […]
Putin vows payback after Kremlin confirms bomb downed Russian plane over Egypt
REUTERS: President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensify air strikes against Islamists in Syria, after the Kremlin concluded a bomb had destroyed the plane last month, killing 224 people. “We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them,” Putin said at […]
LETTER: Allowing the actions of a few terrorists to scare us achieves their goal
Terrorists have two goals (1) kill individuals who do not share their beliefs and (2) generate sufficient fear and panic to cause irrational policy decisions (e.g. Second Iraq War).