In reality, these shortfalls were both predictable, and avoidable. It’s now clear that Corbett’s receivership team overstated anticipated revenues in order to make the numbers work on paper, and to facilitate the city bailout of the bond dealers, whose lobbyists made political contributions to Corbett.
Fall in Fortunes For Political Star Kathleen Kane
NEW YORK TIMES: The question before Pennsylvanians is this: Is Kathleen G. Kane, the first woman to be elected as the state’s attorney general, the victim of angry men who targeted her after she exposed their pornography habits?
Vaccination debate flares in GOP presidential race, alarming medical experts
WASHINGTON POST: Medical experts reacted with alarm Monday as two top contenders for the Republican presidential nomination appeared to question whether child vaccinations should be mandatory — injecting politics into an emotional issue that has taken on new resonance with a recent outbreak of measles in the United States. First, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, […]
Columbia Student: I Didn’t Rape Her
Paul Nungesser was cleared of a rape charge but faced a harsh trial-by-media. Now, as new details come to light, he’s speaking out and fighting back. DAILY BEAST COLUMN: …Karin Nungesser fully understands the desire to support someone who comes forward with an accusation of rape: “This is a good cause—but even in a good […]
Why the USA should encourage immigration
“Today (2007) the average retiree receives Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits totaling $21,000 a year. Multiply this by the current 3 million elderly and you see why these programme already consume such a large proportion of federal tax revenues.
Gains From Economic Recovery Still Limited to Top One Percent
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: It’s the economic statistic that spawned the Occupy protest movement (“We are the 99 percent”), reshaped President Obama’s domestic program (“middle-class economics”), and most recently led the eternal Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney to bemoan that “the rich have gotten richer.” I am speaking of the income share of the richest […]
Net neutrality battle pitches activists and FCC against Big Cable and GOP
GUARDIAN: For more than three decades Kevin Zeese has been a burly, vociferous presence on the front lines of protest movements. The 59-year-old Baltimore native has organised protests against the Iraq war, run for the Senate on the Green Party ticket, and campaigned for drug law reform since the 1970s. Now he’s fighting to save […]
Campaign donors’ stories show two sides to former Pennsylvania Treasurer Rob McCord’s fundraising
PENN LIVE: …To point to just one example, his former department currently employs 34 different private investment firms, all assigned to manage assigned longer-term portfolios for the state. Those and other firms may also have been sensitive to McCord’s needs given the treasurer’s seat on the board of the state’s two multi-billion dollar major public […]
U.S. Considers Supplying Arms to Ukraine Forces, Officials Say
NEW YORK TIMES: With Russian-backed separatists pressing their attacks in Ukraine, NATO’s military commander, Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, now supports providing defensive weapons and equipment to Kiev’s beleaguered forces, and an array of administration and military officials appear to be edging toward that position, American officials said Sunday. President Obama has made no decisions on […]
3 openings on Pa. high court stir interest in endorsements
THE BRADFORD ERA / AP: …Three of the seven state Supreme Court seats are open — a situation that court officials say is unprecedented — and the outcome of the Nov. 3 election will change the face and quite possibly the partisan lineup of the influential panel.
Printing plant expansion makes room for new customers
PENN LIVE: …ACS PA announced the $3.6 million expansion in conjunction with the company’s new contract to print LNP – Lancaster’s daily newspaper – beginning in May. The deal with Lancaster involves printing some 60,000 additional newspapers every weekday and 80,000 more on Sundays. Kurt Hower, ACS PA Operations Director, said Lancaster is the company’s […]
LETTER: Critique of Marriott Proposal and prediction of what will follow
In most of the CC cases, the first call to action after disappointing results is to increase the size of the center. In our case, it appears that backers want more rooms first;
PSP are at it again. But this time let’s tax them.
The heading of LNP’s front page announcement is “Downtown Marriott’s owner proposes 96-room, $23M expansion”.
Mitt Romney will not run for president in 2016
BOSTON GLOBE: After weeks of urgent phone calls, strategy sessions, and a pair of closely watched campaign-style appearances, Mitt Romney told his supporters Friday he will not run for president a third time, abruptly ending a three-week flirtation and clearing the way for a slew of newcomers in the emerging Republican field for 2016. The […]