NEW YORK TIMES: Nearly two decades after voters passed a medical marijuana law that often left the police, prosecutors and even patients confused about what was allowed, Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill on Friday that attempts to clean up that largely unregulated system and to bring it in line with Washington’s new recreational marijuana […]
21st Century Lancaster: The Public be damned
Anyone who reads “A City Transformed; Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1940 – 1980” by David Schuyler will be impressed with the openness of governing bodies to third party expertise and public debate.
Holding Motorists on Highway to Await Drug Dog Searches Not OK, Supreme Court Rules
By Phil Smith DRUG WAR CHORNICLE: In a 6-3 decision today, the US Supreme Court held that detaining motorists on the side of the highway to await the arrival of a drug dog violates the Fourth Amendment’s proscription against unlawful searches and seizures. In the decade since the Supreme Court held in Illinois v. Cabellas […]
Most States List Deadly Methadone as a ‘Preferred Drug’
STATELINE: …Methadone overdoses kill about 5,000 people every year, six times as many as in the late 1990s, when it was prescribed almost exclusively for use in hospitals and addiction clinics where it is tightly controlled. It is four times as likely to cause an overdose death as oxycodone, and more than twice as likely […]
Team Hillary: We Won’t ‘Chase Our Own Tail’ Amid Media Storm
NEWSMAX: What began as a slow drip of information has turned into a deluge of reports about alleged conflicts of interest and a lack of transparency concerning the Clinton Foundation’s acceptance of foreign money. But Politico reports Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s camp isn’t panicking. “If we try to chase every media story, we chase […]
Don’t Blame Drones
SLATE COLUMN: on Thursday, President Obama confessed to a terrible mistake. An American drone strike on al-Qaida operatives in Pakistan, carried out in January, accidentally killed two hostages—Warren Weinstein of the United States and Giovanni Lo Porto of Italy—who were concealed at the site… But these two deaths, tragic as they are, don’t change the […]
Lynch’s Biggest Challenge as Holder Successor Is Ticking Clock
NEWSMAX: …As the new U.S. attorney general, tasked with combating corporate crime and prosecuting terrorists, she will have just 21 months to leave her imprint on the Justice Department before her boss, President Barack Obama, steps down. “She just isn’t going to be around long enough to think in terms of a huge legacy,” said […]
LETTER: Another step by LNP to eliminate print edition?
I wonder what the advertising income comparison would be between the two formats?
Kane challenge to contempt hearing prompts postponement
Kane’s lawyers said in Thursday’s court filing that Carpenter’s order last year had expired before Barker’s April 8 firing, and they reiterated Kane’s contention that Barker’s firing had nothing to do with his grand jury testimony in the investigation. Furthermore, they wrote, Kane had no motive to retaliate against Barker because he had helped her office challenge Carpenter’s protective order and, in internal correspondence, had deemed it to be “unwarranted and unlawful.”
Former CIA chief fined $100,000 over classified breach
FINANCIAL TIMES: David Petraeus, the retired general and former Central Intelligence Agency head, has been sentenced to two years of probation and fined $100,000 for inappropriately handing classified information that he shared with his lover. In a case that marks one of the greatest downfalls in modern military history, Mr Petraeus pleaded guilty to the […]
Comcast is apparently walking away from its Time Warner Cable deal
FORTUNE: The nation’s largest cable company could drop the massive takeover bid following reports indicating the FCC’s opposition to the merger. Comcast CMCSA 0.75% plans to drop its $45 billion takeover bid for Time Warner Cable TWC -0.59% in the face of opposition from U.S. regulators, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of […]
Common Sense for Drug Policy vs. New York Times re pain medication
Last Sunday the New York Times published a major opinion piece by Sam Quinones entitled “Serving All Your Heroin Needs” which did not necessarily contradict what we had been contending but gave reason to revisit and further research our contentions.
Pa. schools are the nation’s most inequitable. The new governor wants to fix that.
Nowhere is that gap wider than in Pennsylvania, according to federal data. School districts with the highest poverty rates here receive one-third fewer state and local tax dollars, per pupil, than the most affluent districts.
Poll: Rubio leads the GOP pack in match-up against Clinton
POLITICO: Marco Rubio runs best against Hillary Clinton among all Republican 2016 contenders, according to a new Quinnipiac University national poll released Thursday. Clinton has a clear lead over all potential Republican opponents in prospective match-ups, with the exception of Rubio, whom she leads by just 45 percent to 43 percent — within the margin […]