In hindsight, I wonder how many of the power elite now wish that HACC had taken over the Watt & Shand building?? At the very least there would be much more daily downtown foot traffic from students/faculty who could also eat and shop downtown.

Kings College has purchased and is converting the Former 105 room former Ramada Hotel on the center square in Wilkes-Barre, PA to dormitory facilities.

“We predict that many low-income women will forego recommended breast and cervical cancer screening; diabetics will forego medications and all low-income adults will face a greater likelihood of depression, catastrophic medical expenses and death,” researchers wrote in the study, which was released on the website of the journal Health Affairs…

Since Quincy officers began carrying a nasal form of the drug, known commonly by its trade name, Narcan, in October 2010, they have administered the drug 221 times and reversed 211 overdoses, said Lt. Detective Patrick Glynn, commander of the narcotics unit and special investigations at the Quincy Police Department

BLOOMBERG: Consumer spending that rose at the fastest pace in three years helped the U.S. economy grow at a 3.2 percent pace in the fourth quarter, overcoming government cutbacks and laying the foundation for a stronger expansion.

The finding has been described as “remarkable” by the Medical Research Council’s Prof Robin Lovell-Badge and as “a major scientific discovery” by Dr Dusko Ilic, a reader in stem cell science at Kings College London…

On Iraq, Americans by 52%-37% say the United States mostly failed to achieve its goals. That is a decidedly more negative view than in November 2011, when U.S. combat troops withdrew. Then, by 56%-33%, those surveyed said the U.S. had mostly succeeded.

What Smart says would be true for a state guaranteed bond that was repaid back by the borrower…. CRIZ is repaid from future taxes that presumably would be earned by the state. So it is not the owner that pays off the debt, it is our children and grandchildren because they will not have the tax revenues from the project necessary to pay their future government costs.

The presidential palace issued a statement on Thursday, which said that Yanukovych would be taking leave due to acute respiratory illness and high fever, although it did not say how long he would be away or whether he would do any work during the period…

“I’m eager to work with all of you,” a confident Mr. Obama told lawmakers of both parties in the 65-minute nationally televised speech in the House chamber. “But America does not stand still — and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do.”…

NEW YORK TIMES: …Mr. Seeger’s career carried him from singing at labor rallies to the Top 10, from college auditoriums to folk festivals, and from a conviction for contempt of Congress (after defying the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s) to performing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at an inaugural concert for Barack Obama…

But Mr. Putin’s own hand is now looking considerably weaker than it did just a few days ago. After seizing the initiative in Ukraine by prodding President Viktor F. Yanukovych to spurn a far-reaching trade and political agreement with Europe in November, the Russian president risks being caught wrong-footed by the rush of events, said Michael Emerson, the bloc’s former envoy in Moscow.

“As humans, we tend to fear what we don’t understand. It’s our first natural reaction. And for 85 years, we’ve been given at the very best misinformation about this plant and at the very worst an innate fear that’s lasted up until the present day,” he said. “These fears are breaking up now with the help of proof and science.”

On Friday, January 31 at 7:30pm, Dr. Michael Jamanis and his mother, Frances Veri, will perform at Lancaster Catholic High School, 609 Juliette Ave Lancaster PA.