The Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee was really appointed by gangsters! It’s hard to top such information.
Sometimes dangerous situations can be studied to someone’s death
A township representative graciously explained that they were aware of the danger and were considering a long term solution of a traffic light or ‘round about.’ This is part of a process necessary to obtain permission to install the additional two stop signs, which they agree should be the short term solution.
Happiness Doesn’t Bring Good Health, Study Finds
NEW YORK TIMES: Go ahead and sulk. Unhappiness won’t kill you. A study published on Wednesday in The Lancet, following one million middle-aged women in Britain for 10 years, finds that the widely held view that happiness enhances health and longevity is unfounded. “Happiness and related measures of well-being do not appear to have any […]
Kane’s former security chief convicted of contempt
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen G. Kane’s former security chief was convicted of contempt of court Tuesday after a judge found that he violated a court order by surreptitiously reading colleagues’ emails in an effort to learn about the criminal investigation of his boss… Reese, 48, of Dunmore, Pa., could face up to six […]
America’s Secret Arsenal
POLITICO: To this day it remains one of the most sophisticated and mysterious offensive operations ever launched: Stuxnet, the computer virus specifically engineered to attack Iran’s nuclear reactors. Discovered in 2010 and now widely believed to be a collaboration between the U.S. and Israel, its existence raised an urgent question: Just what is the U.S. […]
Bernie Sanders: I’m Sick of Trump’s Anti-Muslim ‘Crap’
DAILY BEAST COLUMN: …“What are your comments or what is your take on what he is doing?” [Jimmy] Fallon asked the Democratic candidate early in the interview. Sanders did not hold back. “Throughout history we’ve had the demagogues trying to divert attention away from the real issues,” he said. “What somebody like Trump is trying […]
KEISLING: Palace coup: what the Kathleen Kane prosecution is really about
Are the criminal charges brought by Republican officials against AG Kane, her subsequent law license suspension, and efforts by the state senate to remove her from office all simply a ruse meant to distract voters from what is really going on: an attempt by Republicans to control policy in the attorney general’s office, and throughout state government, without having won an election?
Pa. board opens new investigation of Justice Eakin in porn email scandal
The Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct Board has opened a new investigation into a state Supreme Court justice who’s linked to a new discovery of allegedly pornographic and racially offensive emails.
A bereaved parent is a strong voice for drug policy reform
Families are becoming a major force in drug policy reform: families of the incarcerated, families of victims of violence, and families who have lost loved ones to an overdose… One of the leading figures in this new families movement is Anne-Marie Cockburn. Her 15-year-old daughter, Martha, died from an overdose of ecstasy. She ingested about […]
LETTER: Understanding Kathleen Kane’s main point re porn e-mails
An example would be, as a worker in an office would you exchange sexual emails with a co-worker or supervisor you don’t know personally? Would you exchange them with anyone other than someone you know has the same weird predilections that you have? So what does it reveal when judges, prosecutors and U.S. Attorneys are exchanging them?
Albuquerque, Revising Approach Toward the Homeless, Offers Them Jobs
“It’s about the dignity of work, which is kind of a hard thing to put a metric on, or a matrix,” Mayor Richard J. Berry said. “If we can get your confidence up a little, get a few dollars in your pocket, get you stabilized to the point where you want to reach out for services, whether the mental health services or substance abuse services — that’s the upward spiral that I’m looking for.”…
Email Scandal Focusing on Phila. District Attorney’s Office
Bishop’s attorney, Charles Peruto Jr., said Fina will be testifying about whether race played a role in the investigation of the legislators, all of whom are black.
Personalities overshadow issues in state budget battle
Turzai has been at the forefront of efforts to turn the lucrative sales of booze from state-agency driven to private vendors. Publicly he points to competitive pricing and more comfortable outlets and sales hours. Privately he reminds his cohorts that such a change would create an entire new list of political campaign check writers and remove 2,500 good-paying union jobs, mostly held by supporters of Democratic opponents.
Strip clubs, sexual commentary were topics of Eakin emails
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: SInce 2009, State Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin exchanged emails with some old friends, including a state prosecutor and a prospective lower-court judge. Among the topics: visits to strip clubs and sexual gibes about female staffers in Eakin’s office. The email chain, reviewed last week by The Inquirer, has never before been […]