FINANCIAL TIMES: …Mr Murdoch has pulled off many audacious deals over the last half century but the media mogul saved his biggest bid until his ninth decade. The cash and stock offer, worth about $86 a share before Fox shares fell on Wednesday, would add HBO, Turner and Warner Bros to his empire and unite […]
If you are running for a train, look out!
Amtrak has installed computers in the lobby of the Amtrak station for payment of parking fees.
Gubernatorial battle: The gloves come off
The Corbett campaign was up with the negatives first. After launching a generic defense of his adminstraiton last week, the incumbent turned to an attack on Mr. Wolf’s tenure as secretary of revenue under the administration of former Gov. Ed Rendell.
State’s corrections work seen as example for the nation
One key was addressing problems at halfway houses that were uncovered by a 2009 University of Cincinnati study the department commissioned, Mr. Wetzel told them. It found that offenders leaving halfway houses had a 95 percent higher recidivism rate than prisoners released directly to the street.
Though Scorned by Colleagues, a Climate-Change Skeptic Is Unbowed
NEW YORK TIMES: … Dr. Christy [John] is an outlier on what the vast majority of his colleagues consider to be a matter of consensus: that global warming is both settled science and a dire threat. He regards it as neither. Not that the earth is not heating up. It is, he says, and carbon […]
STUDY: Binge Drinkers Rule the World (?)
Research already demonstrates that young people use alcohol for social means…as a way of fitting in,” Dumas tells The Daily Beast. “Our research further suggests that young people might be gaining social status benefits via their heavy drinking, or that higher social status might encourage riskier drinking practices among young people.”…
Report: Illegals Come Not From Fear but for Economic Reasons
NEWSMAX: Illegal immigrant minors have besieged the U.S. border from Central America because they think they can stay — not because they’re escaping violence in their home countries, an internal law-enforcement report says. The report by the El Paso Intelligence Center (EPIC), which falls under the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, revealed that homicide rates had […]
Survey shows life regrets can shape later years
USA TODAY: …”The No. 1 thing people are looking for today is really peace of mind,” says financial adviser Susan Acker of Merrill Lynch in Pittsford, N.Y. “The goal of saving more money is to reach peace of mind.” Carsten Wrosch, a psychology professor at Concordia University in Montreal who has been collecting life regret […]
The 2014 National Drug Control Strategy: Baby Steps in the Right Direction
By Phillip Smith, July 10, 2014, 09:57am, DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP — the drug czar’s office) released its 2014 National Drug Control Strategy Wednesday. While in general, it is remarkable for its similarities to drug control strategies going back more than a decade, it does include […]
Rockin’ the bloat; Governor did right thing
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Editorial: WE DON’T often agree with Tom Corbett, but the governor did the right thing in facing down the Legislature last week over the budget and pension reform.
Sandusky report’s author Geoffrey Moulton addresses questions about where his review didn’t go, and why
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …His assignment, the Widener University School of Law professor-turned-special deputy to Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane explained in a recent interview with PennLive, was always defined by some fairly strict parameters. He was to look at the actions of law enforcement from the date of the initial complaint against Sandusky in November 2008 […]
‘When Harry Met Sally’ Turns 25: Director Rob Reiner Reveals the Secrets of the Romcom Classic
DAILY BEAST Column: The premise is simple enough: Directed by Rob Reiner and written by the late Nora Ephron, it opens in 1977 with two college grads—Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan)—sharing a long drive to New York City. On the surface, they couldn’t be more different, and engage in a long argument about […]
Politics May Prevent Obama From Going His Own Way on Illegals
NEWSMAX: When Congress repeatedly declined to pass the DREAM Act, which would have offered citizenship to children whose parents brought them to the United States illegally, the president used his executive authority to offer “deferred action” on their deportation proceedings. More than 550,000 people have qualified, Bloomberg noted, illustrating there’s “quite a bit” the president […]
Shoppers smash window to free 2 kids in hot car
USA TODAY: KATY, Texas — Shoppers who thought they had no time to spare after noticing two kids in a hot jeep Monday afternoon took matters into their own hands… After several minutes, the kids were freed. The children’s mother apparently said she had left them there so that she could get a haircut… No […]