USA TODAY: …The failure to fully staff hospitals is one reason why the Department of Veterans Affairs paid for 1.5 million veterans to see doctors outside the agency in the past year, VA Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson testified late last month. Those private visits have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $7.7 billion, the VA said. […]
Capitolwire: Wolf says goodbye to McGinty, names Isenhour new chief of staff.
“Today is really about being thankful for the opportunity I’ve had here and about welcoming Mary to her role,” McGinty said
U.S. Jets to Use Turkish Bases in War on ISIS
NEW YORK TIMES: Turkey plunged into the fight against the Islamic State on Thursday, rushing forces into the first direct combat with its militants on the Syrian border and granting permission for American warplanes to use two Turkish air bases for bombarding the group in Syria… Turkish internal security officials had signaled their growing concern […]
LNP editorial defends free speech at public meetings. Better late than never.
We don’t mean to blame the current editorial board for the sins and silences of its predecessors, but our salient memories are of three times when LNP has remained silent (if not conspiratorial) when similar issues were involved:
Democrats Score Sought-After Senate Candidate in Pennsylvania
McGinty’s entrance would be a major victory for Democrats in Washington, who have scoured Pennsylvania looking for a top-tier candidate in what should be a politically-crucial Senate battleground in 2016.
New York Plans $15-an-Hour Minimum Wage for Fast Food Workers
NEW YORK TIMES: The labor protest movement that fast-food workers in New York City began nearly three years ago has led to higher wages for workers all across the country. On Wednesday, it paid off for the people who started it. A panel appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo recommended on Wednesday that the minimum […]
“If our beds are filled, it means we have failed”
“Mount Sinai’s number one mission is to keep people out of the hospital. We’re focused on population health management as opposed to the traditional fee-for-service medicine. So instead of receiving care that’s isolated and intermittent, patients receive care that’s continuous and coordinated, much of it outside of the traditional hospital setting.”
LETTER: I find this article boldly inaccurate and slanderous.
I have lived and worked in Moscow for 6 years and have yet to see anybody defile or rebuke the American flag OR its people (ME!)… It ISN’T Americans that many (NOT most!) Russians dislike, it’s our government.
Wolf asks court to uphold death-penalty ban
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Gov. Wolf on Tuesday asked the state Supreme Court to ignore Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s challenge to his death-penalty moratorium, arguing that the justices had already decided to consider a similar petition brought by the Philadelphia district attorney. In a court filing that responds to Kane’s petition, Wolf also repeated the claim […]
Will GOP debate be the Trump show?
POLITICO COLUMN: Somewhere in a parallel universe, top-ranking Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio are gearing up for an inaugural primary debate where they will make their pitches to voters, contest one another’s policy proposals, and calmly try to skirt attacks from tea party insurgents and nothing-to-lose outsiders. Unfortunately for them, […]
We agree, LNP improved under John Kirkpatrick
We have no insights into the reason for Kirkpatrick’s abrupt departure other than his own explanation, but we do agree that during his presidency there were considerable improvements, not only journalistically, but hopefully financially.
Wolf Administration seeks legal help to go after Harrisburg’s incinerator claims
PENN LIVE COLUMN: … [Gov. Tom] Wolf’s Office of General Counsel on Monday issued a request for proposals for outside legal help to win reimbursement from financial, legal and other professionals who advised city and county officials along the way. The state is leading on this process as part of its ongoing management of the […]
MILLER: About PA budget squabble . . . what if . . . ?
Why is a single Republican state representative doing the job of the Democratic leadership in the PA House and Senate?
LETTER: McCain was no hero
Re: Trump and His Apologists Trump is a demagogue and the other sleazy pack of liars running in the Republican primaries aren’t? The WSJ have been lubing us up for another Bush presidency and they don’t like anything that could change that. Go Trump! I will vote for him; he is no more crazy than […]