We welcome a complete and equitable comparison of the School District of Lancaster and districts with similar demographics across the state. Our state scores exceeded the average for urban districts in Pennsylvania—all of which have seen devastating cuts to basic and special education funding.

Turbine prices have fallen 26 percent worldwide since the first half of 2009, bringing wind power within 5.5 percent of the cost of electricity from coal, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Large corporations that depend on cheap labor will determine when there is an increase in minimum wages because they write campaign checks to the lawmakers. The political push to keep the federal minimum wage at a paltry $7.25 per hour or at least to a token increase is best described as subtle but firm.

“We’d like to know why. We’d like to know why the FBI didn’t try harder to solve the mysterious death of a federal prosecutor. We’d like to know why there wasn’t more outrage from Mr. Luna’s colleagues in the Baltimore U.S. attorney’s office.

Even though fair taxation never had driven away drillers from every other state that produces natural gas or oil, Gov. Tom Corbett and industry-friendly lawmakers have contended that such a tax in Pennsylvania would drive away the industry.

Waddoups’ ruling attacks the parts of Utah’s law making cohabitation illegal. In the introduction, Waddoups says the phrase “or cohabits with another person” is a violation of both the First and 14th amendments. Waddoups later writes that while there is no “fundamental right” to practice polygamy, the issue really comes down to “religious cohabitation.”

Michael R. Bloomberg, determined to parlay his government experience and vast fortune into a kind of global mayoralty, is creating a high-powered consulting group to help him reshape cities around the world long after he leaves office.

The Scranton native is not planning to enter the crowded 2014 Democratic primary election for governor, as many speculated.

In reality, the Revitalization and Improvement Zone, CRIZ, is all about the further conversion of public funds to private profit. Making an honest buck through the capitalistic system has gone out of style.

A growing list of Latin American leaders has called for alternatives to the blood-soaked war on drugs initiated by the United States 40 years ago and buttressed by the United Nations. That prohibitionist model, they say, has been a spectacular failure.

Some Wall Street law firms breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the final terms. “We think this is killing a fly with a hammer but we’re not going to relitigate that point now,” said one senior bank executive. “It’s clear that the technicians at the regulators made a sincere effort to improve it.” .

“One of the issues is whether we should be having these issues more publicly aired over a period of time, later in December and January, and that’s one of the sentiments that was expressed today and one of the reason we’re not taking action today,” Pileggi said after a Senate Appropriations meeting Monday evening.