REUTERS: Hillary Clinton’s family’s charities are refiling at least five annual tax returns after a Reuters review found errors in how they reported donations from governments, and said they may audit other Clinton Foundation returns in case of other errors… The charities’ errors generally take the form of under-reporting or over-reporting, by millions of dollars, […]
Rights Group: Czechs Still Segregating Roma Kids at Schools
ABC NEWS: The Czech Republic has failed to comply with a European court order to stop placing healthy Gypsy children in schools for the mentally disabled, Amnesty International said Thursday… In a report, the human rights group said it found that Gypsies, or Roma, still make up almost 30 percent of the students in schools […]
Kane antagonists complain of slowness of due process
You have to give Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s credit: she’s managed to get the right people mad at her.
“Goodbye, farewell and amen (but check the blog, willya?)”
“Over the years I did battle with conservatives; I once told the religious right to ‘get out of my face.’ That went over well. The irony is that in my dotage, with three kids, I got more conservative.”
Capitolwire: Rivera’s PDE culture shake-up welcomed by Senate Education Committee.
The shake-up couldn’t come soon enough for the Senate Education Committee, whose members took turns Tuesday heaping praise on the governor’s cabinet nominee, Pedro Rivera, and the cultural transformation he has developed for PDE since taking over four months ago.
Lancaster General Health to join University of Pennsylvania health system
“…LG Health’s money will ‘unequivocally’ remain in Lancaster under the auspices of the local board. Additionally, he said, “All issues regarding our medical staff, our investment and our properties remain under local control.”
Love at First Sight Is Real, If You Believe
WALL STREET JOURNAL: ..Scientists say we are genetically wired for the possibility of love at first sight, but why it happens to some people and not others is largely a matter of timing and self-assurance… Romantic love is one of three systems—along with the sex drive and feelings of deep attachment—that humans developed for mating. […]
Philadelphia Inquirer uses petty law suit against Kathleen Kane to pile on, LNP goes along
Under normal circumstances, LNP editors would not be faulted for reproducing an article from the Inquirer. But by now LNP should be aware of the war by the Inquirer on Kane and should be more cautious about what it publishes.
Penn State trustees go to court over university’s block on Freeh Report source matter
They believe that image – both for Paterno and Penn State as a whole – was unfairly damaged by former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s 2011-12 examination of circumstances surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal…
One-third have almost no retirement savings
USA TODAY: Almost a third of workers (28%) say they have less than $1,000 in savings and investments that could be used for retirement, not counting their primary residence or defined benefits plans such as traditional pensions. And 57% say they have less than $25,000, according to a telephone survey of 1,003 workers and 1,001 […]
To the Bitter End: The 9 States Where Marijuana Will Be Legalized Last
Opinion polls consistently show stronger support for legalization in the West and the Northeast than in the Midwest and the South.
U.S. ports prepare for Panama Canal expansion
PANAMA CITY — Giant backhoes claw into the ground, as helmeted workers position rebar atop of concrete pillars 100 feet tall. Cranes, trucks and teams of workers toil through a construction site here large enough to fit three Empire State Buildings, laying end to end. More than 2,000 miles north, workers at the Port of […]
Eagles to sign Tebow in latest move of frenzied offseason
FOX SPORTS: The Philadelphia Eagles plan to bring in quarterback Tim Tebow and sign him Monday as they begin their offseason program, FOX Sports NFL insider Jay Glazer reports. Multiple outlets later confirmed the report. The Eagles are looking for a fourth quarterback for their offseason program. After spending time with Tebow’s quarterbacks coach Tom […]
ISIL video purports to show killing of Ethiopians in Libya
ALJAZEERA: A video released online by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Sunday appears to show the killing of two different groups of captured Ethiopian Christians by ISIL’s Libyan affiliates… A masked fighter brandishing a pistol delivers a long statement, saying Christians must convert to Islam or pay a special tax […]