Prominent Baltimore defense attorney Kenneth Ravenell, once a self-described ‘good friend’ and ‘mentor’ of murdered federal prosecutor Jonathan Luna, has been indicted for alleged collusion with a drug kingpin. Ravenell served as defense counsel on two of prosecutor Luna’s most mysterious cases, including Luna’s last case. By Bill Keisling, yardbirdbooks.com/ Stunning developments unfolding in Maryland […]
Category: Keisling on Pennsylvania Politics
KEISLING: Marriott expansion puts “cart before the horse.”
EDITOR: As part of preparing a book on statewide corruption in Pennsylvania, Bill Keisling is acquainting himself with how the Lancaster Convention Center came to be. Keisling has given his permission to publish the below note to NewsLanc’s editor as an article since, if he went into such detail for each item in his book, […]
KEISLING: Fools rush in: Philadelphia DA Seth Williams grandstands and bites the dust
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Bill Keisling’s forthcoming book on Pennsylvania government, business and media. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s ill-considered response to the Inquirer’s Tyron Ali sting article had several other immediate if unpredictable consequences. Philadelphia DA Seth Williams, a Democrat who had hired Fina and several other prosecutors from Corbett’s AG’s […]
KEISLING: Kids for Cash in Luzerne County. (Could it happen here?)
The Luzerne County Courthouse Bribery Scandal Reconsidered (aka Kids for Cash) by Bill Keisling Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from a draft of Bill Keisling’s forthcoming book on corruption in Pennsylvania, ‘special legislation’ and the participation and complicity of the media. Anyone wishing for insights into the wholesale corruption of Pennsylvania government and its courts, […]
KEISLING: Rolf Larsen conviction and impeachment, 1994
NewsLanc Editor: This is another excerpt from the book on corruption in Pennsylvania government and media that writer Bill Keisling is preparing for publication later in 2017 (Or so we hope.) Upon publication, the book will substantiate why Pennsylvania is currently rated among the most corrupt states in the Union. Things have not changed much and, in some […]
Keisling on dysfunctional Supreme Court and how bond financing became the roots of recent statewide corruption
The following is a first draft of an excerpt from Bill Keisling’s forthcoming book on the history of corruption in Pennsylvania government. Over the past several decades, Keisling notes, as corruption in state government has grown worse, the state’s corporate media has often been complicit with the politicians. These media outlets, sadly, have been important supporting players in […]
Keisling: The building of the State Capitol
EDITOR’S NOTE: Assigned to write a book concerning corruption in Pennsylvania government over the past few decades, historian Bill Keisling could not resist at times tracing corruption back to the beginning of the last century. Here is an excerpt from one of his almost 300 researches of state corruption prepared to date. Architect of […]
Draft excerpt from Bill Keisling’s book underway: “Noah’s Ark Deal (Act 61 of 1985)”
Editor: Bill Keisling’s publications have been suspended as he works on his latest book, a compilation of representative items of Pennsylvania corruption and also of special laws favoring special interests. Below is a draft sample: By Bill Keisling Throughout the years of the Republican Thornburgh administration, from 1979 to 1987, the Democrats had been shut […]
What happened to Bill Keisling’s columns?
By Robert Field, Publisher A couple of months ago we announced that Bill Keisling was putting together a list of state and local government corruptions or dubious dealings over the past couple of decades with intention of bringing home to Pennsylvanians why Pennsylvania has been named one of the five most corrupt states. Subsequently […]
In case you missed the October 14 column by Bill Keisling
: Does Trump have hidden support in Pennsylvania? October 14, 2016 Featured, Keisling on Pennsylvania Politics, News and Commentary 10 Comments Edit The ‘Undercover Trump Voter’: A ‘Reverse Bradley Effect?’ Donald Trump is pandering to angry, often under-educated and politically unsophisticated voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. So are voters shy to tell pollsters of their real voting intentions? by […]
In Pennsylvania Senate race, big money drowns out everyday voices
Real people, who have a right to be heard, and real issues, are being drowned out by a cacophony of meaningless TV ads by Bill Keisling Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race has become the most expensive in U.S. history. To date $118 million has been dumped in to this campaign, which pits incumbent Pat Toomey against […]
KEISLING: Does Trump have hidden support in Pennsylvania?
The ‘Undercover Trump Voter’: A ‘Reverse Bradley Effect?’ Donald Trump is pandering to angry, often under-educated and politically unsophisticated voters in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. So are voters shy to tell pollsters of their real voting intentions? by Bill Keisling Is Donald Trump’s support in Pennsylvania stronger than polls suggest? In the last several weeks polls have placed […]
Hillary Clinton visits Harrisburg: Not your father’s presidential rally
You could see and sense pride and even awe in the eyes of the girls and college-aged women who drifted into the hall. The possibilities of what they themselves might achieve with their lives because of this campaign lit their faces. For all the talk about how Donald Trump is bucking the system, it’s nothing […]
Pennsylvania’s dithering legislature unfit to address heroin and opioid crisis
With a health problem this severe, and growing this rapidly, you’d imagine Pennsylvania lawmakers might want to do something about it. Think again. Pennsylvanians are dropping like flies, yet these guys in the legislature only want to work six more days in the last three months of the year. In those three months, an estimated 900 Pennsylvanians […]