First, she competes for precious campaign funds with the eight Democrats hoping to be the next Governor. While she is barely into her second year of her first four-year term as the state’s top legal officer, her campaign fund raising activities continue.

The state’s case disintegrated when it could not provide a single example of voter impersonation, the type of fraud the law supposedly addressed. Meanwhile, critics of the law had no trouble producing examples of legitimate, longtime voters who would be unjustly and needlessly hampered by the requirement…

Ms. Little’s seemingly minor medical problem — she had the least dangerous form of skin cancer — racked up big bills because it involved three doctors from specialties that are among the highest compensated in medicine, and it was done on the grounds of a hospital.

“Good journalism isn’t an arm for any administration or political party. Good journalism isn’t an extension of the PR department of the police department or the mayor’s administration – no matter what party holds the office – and shouldn’t run interference for local Big Business’s ambitions”

More recently, research by the Mexican Institute of Competiveness released in October 2012 suggests that if only Washington, Colorado and Oregon legalized marijuana, then cartel profits would fall as much as 30 percent.

The current crisis was created in early 2001 when the state legislature granted itself and many other state officials a 50% increase in its pension; to divert attention, 25% pension increases were given to all state and public school employees.

Mr. Obama did not address the bigger problem that the collection of all this data, no matter who ends up holding onto it, may not be making us any safer. That was the conclusion of the president’s review panel as well as afederal judge in Washington who ruled that the bulk-collection program was probably unconstitutional and an extensive report by the New America Foundation finding that the program “has had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity.”

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered a new trial in a defamation lawsuit brought by an Oregon bankruptcy trustee against a Montana blogger who wrote online that the court-appointed trustee criminally mishandled a bankruptcy case.

Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley said the requirement that was the centerpiece of Pennsylvania’s embattled 2012 voter identification law places an unreasonable burden on the fundamental right to vote.

In order to serve creditors and fleece the Lancaster public, Gov. Tom Corbett did everything he could to prevent Harrisburg from obtaining bankruptcy court protection. Had that occurred, the recently arrived at ‘bail out’ of Harrisburg creditors and the sale of the Harrisburg Incinerator at an astronomical price to the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) would not likely have occurred.

State gambling regulators have cited increased competition from border states as one reason why the casinos’ haul from slot machines declined 3.5 percent last year to less than $2.4 billion. The year-end slots numbers were released in early January…

“As more and more Americans come to rely on emergency departments for their acute care needs, particularly aging and sick Boomers and people newly enrolled in Medicaid, such care will increasingly become harder to access,” the report said.

The report finds that smoking causes rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction and macular degeneration, a major cause of age-related blindness. Smoking causes inflammation, impairs immune function and increases the risk of death from tuberculosis, an infectious disease.