Gov. Tom Wolf wants to shore up the funds by significantly reducing the $662 million in investment management fees that the state’s two pension funds pay each year, by contributing $80 million of profits from modernizing state liquor stores and by issuing a $3 billion pension bond to reduce the $35 billion deficit of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees’ Retirement System.
Search warrants on Kane’s offices seek emails
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: ….[ County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman [ is conducting a criminal investigation into whether Kane leaked grand jury material to a Philadelphia newspaper based on a statewide grand jury report. Kane has denied any wrongdoing. The statewide grand jury recommended charges including perjury, obstruction of justice and official oppression. The second legal […]
Pope calls Armenian killings 100 years ago ‘genocide’
“In the past century our human family has lived through three massive and unprecedented tragedies,” Francis said, broadcaster RTÉ News reported. “The first, which is widely considered ‘the first genocide of the 20th century’, struck your own Armenian people.”…
Can Lancaster Library’s staid reputation survive LNP’s misplaced modifier?
Contrary to the LNP report, we are reliably informed by a board member, who happens to be our spouse, that the Lancaster Public Library does not run a saloon. The newspaper caption under a photo of imbibing book lovers states: “Kendra Boersen and Hannah Miller listen to Timothy Rezendes, center, during Books on Tap, a […]
How We Got the Tangled Middle East of Today
But it didn’t work out as Netanyahu promised. The autocrats fought back. Liberal democrats, never a significant force, collapsed before Islamist radicals. Libya descended into chaos. Syria became a slaughterhouse. Yemen fell into civil war
Dinner with our Iranian expatriate friend
3) He feels the USA should hold the Saudi’s responsible for their funding of ISI, Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, and other Sunni terrorist groups.
Why Pilots Still Matter
NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED: True, these days pilots spend only a short amount of time with their hands on the control column or stick. But that does not mean we aren’t controlling the airplane throughout the entire flight. Our hands might not be steering the airplane directly, as would have been the case in decades […]
New drug policy will save lives
Wolf has asked state Physician General Dr. Rachel Levin to write a “standing order” that will let any Pennsylvanian buy naloxone, which reverses the effect of heroin and other opiodes, directly from a pharmacy without a prescription. The new policy also calls for Pennsylvania State Police to carry nasal-spray kits of naloxone in patrol cars.
Attorney general cites grand jury leaks in prosecutor firing
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s office cited leaks concerning secret grand jury proceedings Thursday in its firing of a prosecutor who testified before a grand jury that ultimately recommended that Kane be charged criminally for the same thing… “Restructuring was necessary for efficiency and tighter controls amid media […]
Sen. Joe Manchin: ‘If You Screw With America, We’ll Kill You
NEWSMAX: … His concluding comment would appear to apply to any adversary, from the Islamic State (ISIS) to Iran, though he preceded the statement with more measured remarks about the threats facing the world. “Would you rather negotiate for peace or declare war?” Manchin said, mentioning Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker’s bill to force President […]
Capitolwire: PDE picks former Lancaster County school official to lead York City School District.
On Thursday, the department announced a fellow Lancaster County-based school administrator, Dr. Carol Saylor, would take over for Dave Meckley, who resigned last month amid ongoing court battles over his right to receivership and his controversial charter conversion plan.
LETTER: In essence, this appears to be another Pennsylvania “witch hunt” of a woman
Re: KEISLING: Inquirer and Patriot-News re Kathleen Kane: So much smoke, so little fire I posted the majority of this comment on the Facebook page of The Pennsylvania Civil Rights Law Network, as they have a link for this terrific article about what PA attorney General Kathleen Kane is enduring. In essence, this appears to […]
Pa. AG Kane fires official who testified before grand jury
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: Attorney General Kathleen Kane fired the head of her appeals office Wednesday and had armed agents escort him from the office. Kane spokeswoman Carolyn Myers said James Barker’s firing was part of a restructuring of the criminal division. Barker told the Tribune-Review he testified before a statewide grand jury in Norristown that investigated […]
Report: Nothing Has Changed at VA a Year After Scandal
NEWSMAX: A year after Americans recoiled at new revelations that sick veterans were getting sicker while languishing on waiting lists — and months after the Department of Veterans Affairs instituted major reforms — government data shows that the number of patients facing long waits at VA facilities has not dropped at all. No one expected […]