PITTSBURGH POST GAZETTE EDITORIAL: Joe Sestak for the Dems: He’d be the toughest challenger to Pat Toomey Democrats who want a formidable challenger to take on U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey in November should nominate the person who nearly beat the Republican six years ago: former congressman and three-star admiral Joe Sestak. Mr. Sestak, 64, spent […]
Referendum on raising judges’ retirement age delayed until fall election
PENNLIVE: Pennsylvania voters will have plenty of important decisions to make when they enter the voting booth on April 26 but amending the state constitution to raise the mandatory retirement age for judges won’t be one of them. The Senate on Monday passed by a vote of 32-17 to approve a concurrent resolution to move that referendum to raise the judges’ […]
Katie McGinty repeats The Thornburgh Mistake by embracing insider establishment money and politics
U.S. Senate hopeful McGinty not only rubs elbows with those in ‘the halls of power,’ she collects $1.5 million in TV ad money from them There are any number of reasons why the unseemly dumping of $1.5 million in television ad money from top party officials in Washington to McGinty’s foundering campaign is a bad […]
Inquirer editorial: Sestak is the better choice for Democrats
PHILLY.COM: The perceived vulnerability of Sen. Pat Toomey in the general election, in which the Republican presidential nominee may be more liability than asset, has produced three competitive Democratic candidates to challenge the incumbent. JOE SESTAK, a former Navy admiral who served two terms in the House, has the best credentials and experience to […]
Sestak and Zappala stiffed
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: After the reforms that followed the 1968 Democrat convention in Chicago, candidates were no longer to be chosen by party bosses in smoke-filled back rooms. A few weeks ago, the Democratic State Committee was unable to provide the two-thirds super majority necessary to endorse candidates for U.S. Senate and state […]
How medicine sales prosper in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman On April 8, the web site Gazeta.ru published an article, entitled “Plan will bring catastrophe tomorrow.” The article informed that the medications, which are according to the official government list are essential, started to disappear in Russia. Manufacturers of a number of low-cost drugs have suspended their production because, despite an 11% […]
Virginia Cop Gunned Down Last Week Was Doing a Drug War Training Exercise
By Phil Smith DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: The Virginia State Trooper shot and killed at the Greyhound Bus Station in Richmond, Virginia, last week died while on a drug war training exercise aimed at patrons of the transportation hub. Trooper Chad Dermyer, 37, was gunned down by James Brown III, an Illinois man with a […]
LETTER: There are good officials and citizens can help
Re: Since 2008 medium income stagnates in PA. Salaries of state officials grow. First of all, not all legislators in PA accepted those COLA,s. Some donated them to charities or the state treasury. A few do not accept pre diems either. You need to find out who those folks are BEFORE you vote! […]
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Editors / Reporters need more liberal arts and less journalism schooling (and better pay)
Here is a quote from the Philadelphia Daily News Editorial Board: “Right now, demand for natural gas exceeds the ability of producers to supply it. Prices are deflated.” Of course anyone who has passed a course in Introductory Economics would recognize that it is the oversupply of natural gas over demand that has caused prices […]
Paul Krugman: Sanders over the edge
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: From the beginning, many and probably most liberal policy wonks were skeptical about Bernie Sanders. On many major issues — including the signature issues of his campaign, especially financial reform — he seemed to go for easy slogans over hard thinking. And his political theory of change, his waving away of […]
Infrastructure investments sorely needed in 2009 will cause inflation in 2018
By Robert Field Last Monday morning we read how the Metro system in Washington, D. C. will cost a fortune to rebuild and may create a system shut down for month on end. Last week the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey approved the reconstruction of Laguardia Airport, the replacement of the New […]
Judge: Appellate Court Should Release Fina’s Emails
THE LEGAL INTELLIGENCER: A Philadelphia judge is urging the Commonwealth Court to affirm her decision to have Internet browsing records of assistant district attorney Frank Fina of the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office made public under a Right-to-Know request. Fina was a lead prosecutor in the high-profile cases against serial child molester Jerry Sandusky and three […]
Joe Sestak’s last stand against the Democratic Party Bosses
POLITICO: …There’s no ideological civil war underway here. No, this is all personal — just former Navy Adm. Joe Sestak making his last stand against Democratic Party leaders who’ve been trying to sink him for six years and counting. On paper, Sestak is about everything Democrats could want in a Senate candidate: a charismatic, decorated […]