Most Russian media outlets are already loyal to Putin, and opponents get little air time, but the shake-up underlined their importance to Putin keeping power and the Kremlin’s concern about the president’s ratings and image…
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Not good enough: The pick for DEP fails the knowledge test
Sen. Daylin Leach, a Democrat from Montgomery County, asked the nominee about climate change. He replied: “I have not read any scientific studies that would lead me to conclude that there are adverse impacts to human beings or to animals or to plant life at this small level of climate change.
Cellphone data spying: It’s not just the NSA
About one in four law-enforcement agencies have used a tactic known as a “tower dump,” which gives police data about the identity, activity and location of any phone that connects to the targeted cellphone towers over a set span of time, usually an hour or two.
Partisanship in the Media
NEW YORK TIMES LETTERS: …In the 18th and early 19th centuries, American journalism was highly political, often polemical and openly biased. That was the kind of journalism in which the likes of Sam Adams and Thomas Paine gloriously argued for liberty, and it was the form of journalism that was on the founders’ minds when they enshrined the doctrine of a free press in the First Amendment.
LETTER: Is NewsLanc a “racist newspaper”
With all the knock out games the black people took part in and no big mention of it in your paper . Now a white man plays the game and all hell brakes loose in your newspaper. Can you explain or shall we take you as a racist newspaper.
The resurgent Soviet Union
While our attention is diverted elsewhere, in large part due to partisan politics, the Cold War is making a come back in Central and Eastern Europe under the orchestration of Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.
Final Uruguay Marijuana Legalization Vote Set for Next Week
“It’s about time that we see a country bravely break with the failed prohibitionist model and try an innovative, more compassionate, and smarter approach. By approving this measure, Uruguay will represent a concrete advance in line with growing opposition to the drug war in Latin America and throughout the world,” said Hannah Hetzer, DPA’s Montevideo-based policy manager for the Americas.
How the Government Gives (Lancaster General and City Council take note)
Nonprofit hospitals are among the largest recipients of charitable donations. Yet their activities are often indistinguishable from those of for-profit hospitals. Both receive compensation for the services they provide.
Jobless rate dips to five-year low on steady gains
After years of frustrating fits and starts in the wake of the financial crisis and the Great Recession, the United States economy finally appears to be generating jobs at a healthier, more sustainable pace that many analysts now think will continue into 2014. The official unemployment rate fell in November to its lowest level since 2008.
Why should investments in municipal bonds differ from corporate bonds?
Notice, that unlike the cruel and self serving bail out imposed on Harrisburg citizenry (and indirectly those in Lancaster County) by Gov. Tom Corbett to benefit the chief bond holder for the city, in Stockton it was the creditors that had to accept a large reduction in interests and principle when the city filed for protection under the Federal Bankruptcy Act.
Student loan forgiveness: What you don’t know (but should)
1. Become a public school teacher in a low-income area.
Thanks to the government’s Teacher Forgiveness Program, up to $17,500 of your federal Stafford loans or the entirety of your Perkins loans can be forgiven in exchange for five consecutive, full-time years as a teacher at certain low-income elementary or secondary schools.
INTELL: “So how many of these guys do you remember?”
Paul Jones is our ‘hero’.
Here is what the Intelligencer Journal New Era sports reporter said of him in an article summarizing the subsequent careers of players who transferred out of Penn State:
Pa. auditor general DePasquale warns of ‘red flags’ in state’s road bill
The bill allocates $40 million for general transportation projects to be determined by the Commonwealth Financing Authority, a state board that includes legislative appointees. Critics consider that money to be akin to “walking around money” to pay for legislative pet projects…
US: Forced Guilty Pleas in Drug Cases
Federal prosecutors routinely threaten extraordinarily severe prison sentences to coerce drug defendants into waiving their right to trial and pleading guilty, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. In the rare cases in which defendants insist on going to trial, prosecutors make good on their threats.