The bulk of the county membership is served by three of the fourteen libraries. Directly or indirectly, decisions are made by the majority of the fourteen members who make up the Directors Council.
U.S. Sees Risks in Assisting a Compromised Iraqi Force
The report concludes that only about half of Iraq’s operational units are capable enough for American commandos to advise them if the White House decides to help roll back the advances made by Sunni militants in northern and western Iraq over the past month.
Obama Contends With Arc of Instability Unseen Since ’70s
WALL STREET JOURNAL: A convergence of security crises is playing out around the globe, from the Palestinian territories and Iraq to Ukraine and the South China Sea, posing a serious challenge to President Barack Obama’s foreign policy and reflecting a world in which U.S. global power seems increasingly tenuous. The breadth of global instability now […]
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Set to Return to Active Duty
NEWSMAX: Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is set to return to regular Army duty on Monday as part of his reintegration process, The New York Times reported, citing Defense Department officials. Bergdahl will remain at Fort Sam Houston and be assigned to the Army North headquarters. The hospital where he had been treated and received counseling is […]
Scaife kept Pittsburgh two-paper town
WE.CONNECT.DOTS: In Southwestern Pennsylvania, placing impact markers for contributors spanning 100-years of history, you would only need three. Andrew Carnegie as an industrialist, David Lawrence as a politician and Richard Mellon Scaife as a publisher and benefactor.
Convention Center Series Index
Chapter 1: Beginnings- Revised Chapter 2: Dream Team- Revised Chapter 3: Helping Hands in Harrisburg- Revised Chapter 4: The Deception Begins- Revised Chapter 5: The Hotel Room Taxes- Revised Chapter 6: Razing History- Revised Chapter 7: The Convention Center Grows- Revised Chapter 8: The Fight Intensifies- Revised Chapter 9: All Out War- Revised Chapter 10: […]
FROM THE FAR LEFT: Crowdsourcing Our Way Out Of the Crisis of Democracy
NEWSLANC EDITOR: Kevin Zeese along with Arnold Trebach were among the earliest and most effective voices for drug policy reform and harm reduction, with profound three decades later upon law and how we live. Zeese subsequently was the spokesperson for presidential aspirant Ralph Nader, the Occupy movement in D. C., and is closely associated with […]
Can Tom Wolf both “run” and “hide”?
Mohammad Ali said of pugilistic opponents “They can run but they can’t hide.” Perhaps Tom Wolf seeks to prove this isn’t true in politics
Dysfunction junction: The Pa. GOP at war
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE Editorial: There is something inherently wrong with a political party that controls both houses of its state legislature and the governor’s mansion (not to mention the courts) yet cannot govern. And that’s the rancid pickle in which Republicans find themselves in Harrisburg. Gov. Tom Corbett, in the throes of a far-behind re-election campaign, […]
New F & M poll: Corbett finds few fans among fundamentalists, gun owners
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: A new poll suggests that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett doesn’t have the backing of groups considered some of his party’s staunchest supporters. Thirty-four percent of fundamentalist or born-again Christians said they would vote for Tom Wolf, Corbett’s Democratic challenger, compared with 32 percent for Corbett, according to a poll by Franklin […]
Root problem isn’t rape, it’s binge drinking
It would be a rarity for a college male to go off on a weekend evening intending to meet and rape a girl. True, he has a so called “rocket in his pocket”, but there are sober civilizing portions in his brain that enables him to control and positively channel his urges.
NEW YORK TIMES
“The National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is currently embroiled in a lawsuit over its ostrichlike response to concussions, released new voluntary guidelines on Monday for concussion safety. But these won’t necessarily fix the problem.
Seeing Cost of Saber Rattling in Ukraine, Putin Alters Course
NEW YORK TIMES: …The main goal from the beginning has been to create the conditions so that Western structures — above all NATO — would not widen their range to include Ukraine,” said Sergei A. Karaganov, dean of the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs and an occasional Kremlin consultant. “That has been achieved.” […]
Honoring those who challenged the Convention Center Project
Below are NewsLanc’s nominees for a Convention Center Project Honor Roll of individuals and institutions who exposed to considerable risk and criticism by challenging the feasibility of the project as gleaned from Newslanc’s Convention Center Series.