NEW YORK TIMES: Ted Cruz is strongly contesting Donald J. Trump nationally, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll that shows the Texas senator essentially deadlocked with real estate mogul and front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. According to the survey of registered Republican voters, 28 percent support Mr. Trump, while 24 […]
Month: December 2015
LETTER: “Interrogate privilege and power in myself”
Re: “If You’re Black, jump back” Thank you for your powerful article. We experience the same racism in Australia. I am a white Australian educator eagerly seeking to be and become critically aware. My Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander friends and colleagues do not always have the luxuries of being eager around their sense […]
Supreme Court Justice Eakin testifies amid suspension threat at ‘Porngate’ hearing
PENNLIVE: Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin choked back tears, his face reddening, as he took the stand Monday to fend off a possible suspension for his involvement in an exchange of vulgar and offensive emails. Eakin, a former Cumberland County district attorney who was elected to the state’s highest appellate court in 2001, was […]
Supreme Court upholds Gov. Wolf’s death penalty moratorium
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: The case before the court concerned Terrance Williams, convicted of beating a man to death with a tire iron in 1984. With Williams’ appeals exhausted, Gov. Tom Corbett scheduled his execution for March 4. Wolf granted him a reprieve Feb. 13 pending an overdue report and recommendations from the Pennsylvania Task Force and […]
Hungary’s Migrant Stance, Once Denounced, Gains Some Acceptance
NEW YORK TIMES: Like most members of Hungary’s liberal intellectual elite, George Konrad, a distinguished novelist, loathes his country’s stridently illiberal prime minister, Viktor Orban. “He is not a good democrat and I don’t believe he is a good person,” said Mr. Konrad, a veteran of communist-era struggles against dictatorship. All the same, he thinks […]
When is a deal not a deal? When “made” in Harrisburg.
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: – When is a deal not a deal? Answer: When the agreement is made in Harrisburg. A week or so ago, after a protracted meeting, participants emerged and announced that a bargain had been struck. House and Senate, Republican and Democrat legislative leaders and Gov. Wolf agreed on a budget that […]
Illinois and Pennsylvania are rivals for the title of “most dysfunctional state in America.
CNN: States are required to pass budgets each year. Most got their budgets done by the July 1 deadline. But not Illinois and Pennsylvania. They are now 170 days overdue… Illinois has a brand new Republican governor who is fighting a state legislature controlled by Democrats. Pennsylvania has the reverse: a new Democratic governor battling […]
LETTER: This is corruption and criminal in my opinion.
I just took part in the last straw poll. As someone with no real ties to any of the candidates I can honestly say I have no idea how anyone could vote for Neal Rice over Scott Martin or even Ethan Demme. Scott hit it out of the park. He is a bit too conservative […]
LETTER: RCLC has allowed individuals to stack committees with friends
We can not allow are senate and congress seats to be taken by bought and paid for politicians. My committee man sent me this article and it makes my blood boil and confirms all of my suspicions. The RCLC is a good organization and we care about are county. But we have allowed certain individuals […]
LETTER: Republican polls rigged against Commissioner Martin
Having been a part of the first section of straw polls I can confirm these polls are rigged against Scott Martin and Ethan Demme. Neal Rice came out of no where and needs to be exposed as the puppet he is. Our area chair who sold out to an incoming commissioner and his High roller […]
Kane now says she never reviewed her twin’s emails
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: …[[Kane spokesperson Chuck] Ardo said Kane issued her new statement Friday “to clarify that she had not seen the Granahan emails prior to their being made public.” He said he was unaware until then that Kane had not played a role in the earlier review. While Granahan’s emails contained no pornography, they included […]
LETTER: “Power elite trying to push Scott Martin out”
In article “Lloyd Smucker, Neal Rice come out ahead in first GOP straw poll”, LNP reports: ”State Sen. Lloyd Smucker and lawyer Neal Rice came out far and away as the winners in the first of eight Republican committee straw polls Thursday night — the beginning of a vital endorsement process for the congressional and […]
Regulators Tamp Down on Mergers of Hospitals
NEW YORK TIMES: In the latest sign that federal regulators are uneasy about the flurry of proposed health care mergers taking place, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday that it planned to block the combination of two large Illinois hospital groups… “This merger is likely to significantly increase the combined system’s bargaining power with […]
Kudos to LNP for publishing NYT article re Kathleen Kane
There it is, three normal columns wide and at the top of the front page – the New York Times’ article that LNP headed “No Surrender”. The NYT coverage is by and large supportive of the Pennsylvania Attorney General, contrary to the premature and strident call for her resignation by LNP editors. (Perhaps due to […]