That, of course doesn’t mean freezing out dissenting voices. But it also doesn’t mean you should give equal space or airtime to established truth on the one hand and reality-challenged people who don’t like it on the other…
Don’t seal PSU data on Paterno
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: There is irony and symmetry to Penn State University’s effort to prevent public disclosure of information relative to the Joe Paterno estate’s lawsuit against the NCAA.
Tuition to go up 3 percent at Pa. state universities
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: The board governing Pennsylvania’s 14 state universities on Tuesday approved a 3 percent tuition increase for 2014-15. Under the plan approved by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education’s board of governors at its meeting in Harrisburg, full-time in-state students this fall will pay a base tuition of $6,820 a year, a $198 […]
Swiss Banks’ Tradition of Secrecy Clashes With Quests Abroad for Disclosure
NEW YORK TIMES: …For a while, it seemed, the tide had turned against the tradition of secrecy in Zurich, the pristine Alpine city that is a hub of global banking… Last week, Pierre Condamin-Gerbier, a former banker, faced a Swiss prosecutor on accusations of violating professional secrecy in connection with leaking information to the French […]
Obama Should Counter John Boehner’s Lawsuit
DAILY BEAST Column: …Did Boehner gave any specific reasons why he needed to employ the extraordinary remedy of suing a President—as opposed to seeking a political solution to a political issue? Nope. Instead Boehner offered up sweeping statements like, “The President has circumvented the American people and their elected representatives through executive action.” (I wonder, […]
Now is the time to legalize medical marijuana in Pennsylvania
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Op Ed: …For too long, terse comments and simple-minded caricatures of medical cannabis supporters have replaced any serious discussion of the topic in Pennsylvania. The reality of the situation is far more serious and sobering. Many lawmakers (including myself) have had conversations with parents whose children suffer from devastating disorders that haven’t responded […]
Cuomo Signs Medical Marijuana Bill Into Law at Ceremony
“I am against legalizing marijuana. And that’s not what this is. This is medical marijuana,” Cuomo said. “So no smoking, only through a prescription, highly regulated, only for a very descriptive set of conditions.”
Germany Dumps 70-Year No-Spying Pact
THE INDEPENDENT: The Central Intelligence Agency recruited a German intelligence official in an apparent quest to get information about Berlin’s probe into U.S. spying on the country and its leaders, and now Germany will have its payback. The interior minister announced that Germany is ditching the no-spy agreement it’s had with the U.S. and Britain […]
Pope Begs Forgiveness for ‘Sacrilegious Cult’ of Church Sexual Abuse
NEWSMAX: Pope Francis told victims of sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clerics the Church should “weep and make reparation” for crimes he said had taken on the dimensions of a sacrilegious cult. “For some time now I have felt in my heart deep pain and suffering,” he said in his strongest comments yet on the […]
LETTER: Entire family court system in Lancaster a sham
The good news is that Jeffrey Reich is currently under investigation by the Judicial Conduct Board for having ex parte’ communication with an attorney about a case that, to date, he denies ever having.
Once fabled Atlantic City hits free fall
Casino revenue has declined almost every month for the past eight years and now amounts to just half of the $5 billion reported for 2006. Atlantic Club (1,600 jobs) closed in January, Showboat (2,100 jobs) will close next month, and several of the 10 surviving casino-hotels probably will shut or shrink…
Chicago: More than 60 shot July 4 weekend in latest gun violence
ALJAZEERA: …The violence was so widespread in the nation’s third-largest city during the period from late Thursday through Sunday that police were still tallying the dead and wounded on Monday. A Chicago Police Department (CPD) spokesman said the current count was 50 shooting incidents, with 53 shot and nine dead, bringing the total shot to […]
Medicaid expansion report tallies what state is missing
LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: …Both sides agree that hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians — 305,000 by 2016, according to the council’s report — would be covered by an expanded Medicaid program. As it stands, nearly all of those people are uninsured, because they do not qualify for the existing Medicaid program under Pennsylvania’s rules, nor do they qualify for health-insurance subsidies under the federal law.
The other Lancaster Rip Off: Lancaster General Health
“One purpose of the 1994 merger, as the president of Mass General acknowledged in 2010, was to take away the ability of insurance companies to demand lower prices from one hospital with the threat that they could just send patients to the other.