EDITOR: New York Times’ report clarifies many of the absurdities as posted at radio station KQED. There must have been a massive miscommunication between the Berkeley, CA building officials and what perhaps was an inexperienced reporter.
How Much the Best-Performing and Worst-Performing CEOs Got Paid
WALL STREET JOURNAL: A substantial part of American CEOs’ pay is now tied to performance. But that doesn’t mean their compensation follows their results in lockstep. The Wall Street Journal’s annual pay survey looked at compensation for 300 CEOs and the returns the chiefs delivered to their shareholders. Broadly speaking, CEOs did well when their […]
Obama’s Fast-Track Trade Bill Advances Toward Final Senate Vote
NEWSMAX: President Barack Obama’s call for “fast-track” trade negotiating authority to help him strike a Pacific Rim deal cleared a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote on the legislation on Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Senate was likely to vote to grant Obama the power to speed […]
Plan B for Iran
POLITICO: President Barack Obama’s nuclear diplomacy with Iran may yet fail. On Tuesday, exactly one week before a June 30 deadline for an agreement, Iran’s Supreme Leader delivered his latest in a series of defiant statements, setting conditions for a deal—including immediate relief from sanctions, before Iran has taken steps to limit its nuclear program—that […]
Capitolwire: GOP lawmaker to file discharge resolution, kicking medical cannabis bill out of House Health Committee.
Still, advocates of the bill believe Baker is the only man standing in the way of its passage in the House. Miccarelli’s discharge resolution would forge a new path to passage by pulling the bill out of Baker’s committee.
Russian Reaction to the Development of Their Relationship with China
On June 20, 2015, the International Economic Forum took place in St. Petersburg. It was announced at the forum that 29 new Russian-Chinese projects worth over $20 billion are already approved, and the total number of joint projects has increased to 58. Currently signed agreements between Russia and China signed agreements amount to over $1 trillion.
This time the Lancaster City Alliance and others got it right
NewsLanc commends the authors and sponsors of “Prosperity Indicator, 2014 Report for Lancaster County”. Every person interested in their community and the county would benefit from reviewing it.
The Kingsley decision creates a crucial new constitutional protection against police abuse.
SLATE COLUMN: In April of 2010, five police officers put Michael Kingsley face down on a cement bunk in a holding cell, shocked him with a stun gun for five seconds, then left him alone, writhing in pain with his hands cuffed behind his back, for 15 minutes. Kingsley sued the officers, claiming they violated […]
WSJ/NBC national poll shows Hillary Clinton crushing all rivals
POLITICO: …The poll found the former secretary of state garnering 75 percent of the vote in a potential Democratic primary. Her closest challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, received only 15 percent of Democrats’ support, while former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley were supported by fewer than 5 percent of respondents. […]
The Supreme Court just agreed with what we told federal authorities
Several years ago federal authorities demanded that we make available every evening the names and addresses of all of our guests at our hotel at the Newark Airport. (Now Holiday Inn – Newark Airport.)
How much should our nation’s health care system spend on a 93 year old?
We are not suggesting that the USA follow the ancient course of some Native American tribes of expelling elderly widows to cope for themselves, but there has got to be a point in life whereby when extraordinary medical expenditures will not be provided at the expense of tax payers.
Study offers glimmer of hope to restore state’s public education
According to the Washington Post, this state has the worst school-funding inequalities in the nation. “Per pupil spending in Pennsylvania’s poorest school districts is 33 percent lower than in wealthiest ones.”
The GOP’s uneasy relationship with the Confederate flag
WASHINGTON POST: …After the racially motivated Charleston shootings this week and a Supreme Court case regarding the flag, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is facingpressure to take down the flag, which is still flying high at a Confederate War memorial on state house grounds. She hasn’t heeded the calls, and her staff says it’s […]
Ash Carter: Putin ‘Malign Influence’ in Eastern Europe
NEWSMAX / BLOOMBERG: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter termed Russian President Vladimir Putin a “malign influence” in Eastern Europe and said the Russian leader’s vow to expand Moscow’s cache of nuclear missiles was “loose rhetoric.” Amid continuing tensions over the conflict in Ukraine, the U.S. will “keep the door open” for Russia to choose better relations, […]