“If we can redirect a dollar — that currently goes to the system for some bureaucratic expense — to the libraries, there’s no reason we shouldn’t do that,’ Danz said.”
GOP rider would boost party spending
POLITICO: Senate Republicans plan to insert a provision into a must-pass government funding bill that would vastly expand the amount of cash that political parties could spend on candidates, multiple sources tell POLITICO. The provision, which sources say is one of a few campaign-finance related riders being discussed in closed-door negotiations over a $1.15 trillion […]
Pennsylvanian officials are subject to impeachment
A dispute has taken place among contributors as to what the Pennsylvania Constitution has to say about who is subject to impeachment. Below is the relevant excerpts from Pennsylvania Constitution: Power of Impeachment Section 4. The House of Representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. Trial of Impeachments Section 5. All impeachments shall be […]
Chief justice revokes Feudale’s senior judge status
The letter also referenced Feudale’s personal relationship of former prosecutor Frank Fina, who now is in the Philadelphia district attorney’s office…
Truck Drivers Protest in Russia
On November 15 a new Russian law took effect, whereby trucks weighting twelve tons or more are charged 1.5 rubles ($0.02) for each kilometer on Russia’s roads. The tax will be introduced stage by stage ending by 2018 with the price rising to 3.73 rubles for kilometer. It means the transportation companies will have to pay today on average about 350,000 rubles ($5,410) for each heavy goods vehicle per year. The fine for an unpaid trip will be 450,000 rubles (almost $7,000) for the first recorded violation and one million rubles (around $15,500) for subsequent violations.
Gil Smart bids farewell and heads for the beach
Turns out, there are still papers, media companies, that really value local columnists, writers who are an identifiable face and voice in the community, someone who generates a following, who generates heat, who generates interest. And I know how to be that guy.
LETTER: Supports right of Senate to remove Attorney General Kathleen Kane
As opposed to many of the inane comment @ PoliticsPa, this article and the input of Henry Tate merit serious analysis; the latter was accomplished ~1 month ago and, thus, the former will now be tackled. 1. It is proposed that the AG-office petition the Supremes to change their minds; absent the ability to submit […]
Committee says Senate should consider removing Kane as AG
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE: A special Senate committee Wednesday recommended the full Senate consider removing Pennsylvania’s attorney general, who faces criminal charges and holds the office without a valid law license. Attorney General Kathleen Kane responded that any such attempt would be unconstitutional. She vowed to choose prosecutors to comb public computers for potentially offensive emails, as […]
AG Kathleen Kane says removal attempt is ‘unconstitutional,’ plans to appoint special prosecutors
In her statement, Kane said she intends to “vigorously defend the Office of Attorney General against any and all future efforts by this committee or the Senate as a whole.”…
Chicago releases video of cop shooting black teen
THE HILL: … The video shows McDonald jogging towards a police vehicle stopped in the middle of a Chicago highway. Two officers — one of them allegedly [James] Van Dyke — pull up in a separate car, leaping out with weapons drawn. Van Dyke then appears to shoot [ Laquan} McDonald, who rotates in nearly […]
How Washington created some of the worst schools in America
POLITICO: It took 50 years for the federal government to admit officially that the education it had promised to provide Indian children was so bad it qualified as abuse. “Grossly inadequate,” wrote the authors of a scathing 1928 report. Forty years later, the feds were taking themselves to task again, in a report by Sen. […]
KEISLING: PA Attorney General’s Office must soon go to court to oppose Senate’s unconstitutional removal of Kane and her law license suspension
Both these issues — Kane’s law license suspension and the Senate’s threatened attempt to unlawfully impeach her — should now be fought vigorously in court.
Racist emails could impact pending criminal cases against two black legislators
[Defense attorney, A. Charles Peruto Jr.] soon would learn of accusations that top prosecutors on Bishop’s case had instructed the lead investigator to “target” black politicians, even though a confidential informant, Tyron Ali, initially had pointed them in the direction of at least four white state lawmakers, according to a May 2013 memo written by First Deputy Bruce Beemer to his new boss, Attorney General Kathleen Kane.
Penn State’s alumni-elected trustees will have access to Freeh documents
A statement Thursday evening from the seven trustees called the ruling “thoughtful, thorough and correct,” adding they had maintained that it wasn’t in Penn State’s best interest to withhold documents.