The team of private lawyers and the attorney general’s office on Monday filed 39 pages of post-trial arguments that ask for the law to be reinstated, the decision revised or a new trial ordered.
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Obama Raising Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors by Executive Order
NEWSMAX: President Barack Obama will announce on Tuesday he is issuing an executive order to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for federal contract workers with new contracts, the White House said
Ukrainian premier submits resignation
The prime minister’s resignation would remove one of the figures most despised by the opposition and repeal of the anti-protest laws would remove a severe aggravating factor in the crisis. But they stop well short of opposition demands, which include Yanukovych’s resignation…
Folk singer Pete Seeger dies at age 94
But whatever you called him, Seeger influenced scores of other singers, including Springsteen, Joan Baez, Dave Matthews, Rufus Wainwright, John Mellencamp and Arlo Guthrie. All performed in 2009 at Seeger’s 90th birthday party at sold-out Madison Square Garden, a fundraiser for his favorite local cause: cleaning up New York’s Hudson River…
Ukraine inches back from the brink ahead of parliament session
FINANCIAL TIMES: Ukraine’s president Viktor Yanukovych late on Monday made a further concession to anti-government protesters, agreeing to repeal harsh anti-protest laws adopted this month that had inflamed two-month old demonstrations against him.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
“Because Pennsylvanaia taxpayers subsidize the cost of higher education, stsate lawmakers have been reluctant to discount tuition for out-of-state students.
Does LNP have a responsibility to run legitimate ads?
We have criticized the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. in the past for running misleading advertisements on its front page. We credit them for having responded in a responsible manner.
Smaller, independent hospitals being shafted by our state government.
Two state representatives – Jim Christiana (R-Beaver) and Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny) introduced a bill that would require all larger health systems in state to accept insurance from any in-state company. The bill is not exactly being fast-tracked and UPMC political action committees have targeted both lawmakers.
Government: Guards may be responsible for half of prison sex assaults
Women prisoners appeared to experience disproportionate numbers of sexual assaults; while they represented 7 percent of state and federal prison inmates from 2009 to 2001, 22 percent of inmate-on-inmate cases involved women, as they did among 33 percent of staff-on-inmate incidents…
Liquor reform lite
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE Column: Republican Gov. Tom Corbett could claim a victory, albeit a minor one, if the General Assembly allowed beer and wine in all grocery stores and allowed six packs to be sold in convenience stores.
Ukrainian Uprising
Civil uprising, which started in Kiev in November 2013 as peaceful protest against President Viktor Yanukovich’s rejection of a free trade deal with EU, now takes violent forms and spreads to Lvov and other western Ukrainian cities.
CBS Poll Has Majority for Marijuana Legalization
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: For the first time since the CBS News Poll first asked the question back in 1979, a slim majority of Americans support marijuana legalization. In the latest CBS News Poll, released today, 51% said marijuana should be legal, with 44% opposed.
Ukrainian President Offers Top Government Posts to Opposition Leaders
NEW YORK TIMES: In a striking concession aimed at defusing the civil uprising that has gripped Ukraine, President Viktor F. Yanukovych on Saturday offered to install opposition leaders in top posts in a reshaped government, proposing one of them, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, as prime minister and another, the former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, as vice prime minister for humanitarian affairs…
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA
“A trim, white-haired man supported by a small government check, Miller had no other housing options. A social worker was coming to take him to Water Street Mission, and he did not want to go…”