The carrier made a mistake and delivered the WSJ instead of the LNP this morning. No problem. We turned to the “e-edition” which is available to subscribers and especially helpful when traveling.
NSA reforms are legacy of Snowden
THE HILL COLUMN: …“This is a man who has done great damage to his country,” Secretary of State John Kerry said last year in calling for Snowden to “man up” and come back home to stand trial. A very different view was advanced last month when a fiberglass and cement bust of Snowden was placed […]
Amtrak Crash Raises Question of Seatbelts on Trains
But a train is so massive, with so much momentum, that it almost never experiences that kind of deceleration. (One exception is when two trains collide, which is very rare.) Less extreme deceleration usually means less extreme impact injuries. A train hitting a car or truck at a grade crossing barely slows down at first…
Accused in sting case cites race bias; quotes AG Kathleen Kane in defense
Peruto noted that Kane, in defending her decision to not pursue the sting, said the lead investigator in the case had said he had been directed to target blacks…
Perils in Trade Deals When Factories Close and Towns Struggle
“The argument was always that the winners could compensate the losers,” [Nobel Aware winning economist Joseph] Stiglitz said. “But the winners never do. And that becomes particularly relevant when we have a society with as much inequality as we have today.”
Exercise in Democracy? Surely, we can do better.
[On Tuesday] A couple million of us (at the most) will trek to the polls and vote for one or more choices for more than 15,000 local political offices. For the most part, we will not have a clue as to the significance of our vote. This is not surprising because most people running for these offices do not have a clue what they will do if they win.
Amtrak back in service to NYC
Effective with departures from Philadelphia at 5:53 a.m. (Train 110) and New York City at 5:30 a.m. (Train 111) on Monday, May 18, Amtrak will restore normal service on the Northeast Corridor.
A look at same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, 1 year later
“What you have to understand, in many cases, [legal same-sex marriage] is actually being treated as a non-event,” said Kathleen Schneider, a Regent Square lawyer and LGBT activist. “These folks who thought they wouldn’t ever be able to be married, treated themselves as being married. They already had joint financial accounts, they owned real estate jointly, named one another as beneficiaries in 401(k) plans and their wills. They did as much as they could within the confines of the law.”
Brown’s Arid California, Thanks Partly to His Father
NEW YORK TIMES: …Still, if Jerry Brown is different as a governor from his father, he is different from what he was 40 years ago as well. Even as he talks about strains on California, he is championing the kind of big projects that his father was known for: a high-speed train line from San […]
A Diplomatic Victory, and Affirmation, for Putin
NEW YORK TIMES: For Russia, victory came three days after Victory Day, in the form of Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit this week to the Black Sea resort city of Sochi. It was widely interpreted here as a signal of surrender by the Americans — an olive branch from President Obama, and an acknowledgment […]
The Conservative Media Figures Who Donated To The Clinton Foundation
NEWSMAX: Media are falsely equating donations to the Clinton Foundation with contributions to a Democratic political campaign. That comparison ignores that the foundation is expressly nonpartisan, and numerous Republicans and conservative media figures have supported the foundation’s work…
Arabs weigh ‘rapid response’ force with U.S. blessing
POLITICO: Following a summit with Gulf Arabs the ended with no apparent breakthroughs, a buried line in a joint statement hinted at a potentially major development: possible American support for a new pan-Arab “rapid reaction” military force. The language stood out to some foreign policy observers, in part because a number of Obama administration officials […]
FAO Schwarz’s Manhattan Store to Close in July as Rents Rise
BLOOMBERG: The FAO Schwarz toy store in midtown Manhattan will close in July because of rising rents, leaving the 153-year-old brand without a retail outlet. Toys “R” Us Inc., which owns the store in the heart of Fifth Avenue across from the Plaza Hotel, said it’s looking for another Manhattan location for the shop. A […]
ISIS Fighters Seize Government Headquarters in Ramadi, Iraq
NEW YORK TIMES: In a major setback for the Iraqi government’s efforts to defend its hold on Ramadi, a crucial regional capital, Islamic State militants conquered the city’s government sector on Friday, raising their black flag over the main compound before setting fire to the building, local officials said. The new jihadist assault began under […]