NEW YORK TIMES: …The error, according to Danielle Allen, a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., concerns a period that appears right after the phrase “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” in the transcript, but almost certainly not, she maintains, on the badly faded parchment original… The period creates the […]
LETTER: “RACE: Are we so different?”
There’s a fascinating special exhibition at the North Museum on College Avenue in Lancaster entitled “RACE: Are we so different?”. It explores the science, history and everyday experiences of race and racism in the US and will be on through the last weekend in September.
U.S. Creates 288,000 Jobs In June, Unemployment Rate Dips To 6.1%
AOL / AP: …Friday’s report from the Labor Department made clear that the U.S. economy is moving steadily closer to full health after having shrunk at the start of the year… The gains were widespread. Factories added 16,000 workers. Retailers brought on 40,200. Financial and insurance firms increased their employee ranks by 17,000… The challenge […]
To Hold Senate, Democrats Rely on Single Women
NEW YORK TIMES: The decline of marriage over the last generation has helped create an emerging voting bloc of unmarried women that is profoundly reshaping the American electorate to the advantage, recent elections suggest, of the Democratic Party. What is far from clear is whether Democrats will benefit in the midterm contests this fall. With […]
Pennsylvania lost out by not expanding Medicaid under Affordable Care Act, White House says
The state would be in line to receive $5.8 billion in 2015 and 2016 if it chooses to take federal money to enlarge eligibility of the health insurance program for the poor, according to President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.
World Cup fever more about patriotism than soccer
USA TODAY Column: …To be sure, Tim Howard was spectacular. People who say they don’t care about soccer cared passionately about this. In a country driven by winning, Americans by the millions realized that there can be both joy and dignity in missing the quarterfinals.
Christie vetoes gun magazine reduction bill
USA TODAY: …Christie was being pressured by both sides. The bill was closely watched by Second Amendment advocates suspicious of Christie as a presidential contender as a blue-state Republican. Parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Connecticut visited his office Wednesday to deliver online petitions with more than 55,000 signatures […]
Japan Announces a Military Shift to Thwart China
NEW YORK TIMES: Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday, freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region. The decision by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will permit Japan to use its large […]
Corbett still trails Wolf big, poll finds
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: …Nearly half of Republicans — 49 percent — say [Gov. Tom] Corbett is doing an “excellent” or “good” job, up from 38 percent in January, according to the Franklin & Marshall College poll. Fifty-three percent say he deserves to be re-elected. But [Tom] Wolf, a York businessman and former state revenue secretary, holds […]
County full guarantee: How scoundrels thwarted the will of the public and the commissioners
Simply put, the sponsors and advocates got control of the the former county commissioners who tied the hands of their successors, then the LCCCA, then its board, spent $8 million in legal fees to create a juggernaut to steam role opposition, rammed through one sided agreements on behalf of the Marriott Hotel equitable owners…
After Retreat, Iraqi Soldiers Fault Officers
But what was sometimes labeled cowardice or treason in the rank and file was often nothing of the sort, members of the border forces said in interviews in recent days.
FTC: T-Mobile knowingly added bogus charges to bills
USA TODAY: The Federal Trade Commission accused wireless carrier T-Mobile of adding bogus charges totaling “hundreds of millions of dollars” on customers’ accounts without their consent. At least as far back as 2009 until at least December 2013, the carrier placed unauthorized charges for third-party services on customers’ mobile phone bills, a practice called “cramming,” […]
Moody’s cuts Puerto Rico deeper into junk
FINANCIAL TIMES: A move by Puerto Rico to allow some public companies to restructure their debts has rattled the $4tn US municipal debt market, sparking a credit downgrade by a leading rating agency. Alejandro Garcia Padilla, the island’s governor, signed a bill at the weekend that allows some of its largest utilities, such as the […]
European court upholds French ban on face veils
ALJAZEERA: The plaintiff said she does not hide her face at all times but occasionally does in order to feel at peace with her faith, her culture and convictions. She stressed in her complaint that no one, including her husband, forced her to conceal her face, essentially rebutting one of the chief arguments lodged by […]