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LETTER: If you knew you were going to die, why did you all just attack the guards whom you outnumbered?
The reason even the most violent, vicious criminal will cooperate is because there are many things much worse than dying. Many guards at this prison were former Soviet prison guards and they were specially trained to inflict unimaginable pain without killing the subject.
Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
Hints at new hidden complexities in the human story came from a 400,000-year-old femur found in a cave in Spain called Sima de los Huesos (“the pit of bones” in Spanish). The scientific team used new methods to extract the ancient DNA from the fossil…
Gov. Corbett and LCBWMA rushed Harrisburg bailout before Detroit bankruptcy court ruling
The governor and Harrisburg’s creditors and even the benighted board of the Lancaster County Bulk Waste Management Authority knew or should have known that, if the federal court allowed Detroit to enter bankruptcy procedures, the negotiating position of the Harrisburg creditors would have been significantly weakened.
LETTER: Police Captain Peter Christ interview on drug policy goes viral
If you haven’t seen it, this is a must watch. Everybody should share it and keep it moving.
A political toll for road funding
Generated by higher gas taxes, licensing fees, and traffic fines, most of the money can be expected to go to sorely needed maintenance of the state’s transportation network, as identified by professionals in the state Department of Transportation and local agencies. But lawmakers also reserved up to about $60 million a year to be distributed by more dubious means – namely, themselves…
Pa. politic$ without any limit$
Every state but the “dirty dozen” – Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Pennsylvania – limits political contributions from such sources…
Turmoil in Ukraine
On November 21 the Ukrainian government announced a decision to stop European Union integration and suspend pursuit of an association agreement. This decision triggered mass rallies in Ukrainian cities involving more than 100,000 protesters.
Ruling Makes Detroit Biggest City to Qualify for Bankruptcy
NEW YORK TIMES: Detroit is eligible to shed billions in debt in the largest public bankruptcy ever in the United States, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, while also finding that the public pensions could be reduced during reorganization despite a provision in Michigan’s Constitution.
Intelligencer Journal New Era
They ought to finish the job by increasing the threshold at which prevailing wage kicks in to the full, inflation-adjusted $188,000, and require it to be adjusted for inflation each July 1…
Ukrainian protesters besiege government building
At least three lawmakers of the governing Party of Regions have quit in protest, and the opposition wants to oust the Cabinet of Prime Minister Mykola Azarov during a confidence vote in Parliament on Tuesday. But the opposition, which now controls some 170 seats, would need 226 votes in the 450-seat Parliament to oust the government…
There’s still a place for a liberal arts education in today’s job market: John Anderson
The reason most cited by students is the ability to get a better job. This is no surprise; it is a reality. And institutions of higher education place themselves in peril if they continue to ignore how inadequately we have framed our role in everyday language—language that resonates with the public, policy shapers and legislators who influence and/or set the policies and control many of the resources shaping our destiny.
Rich survive new Pa. transportation funding bill
You see ineptness nightly in the antics of those who run our government in Washington. Not so easy to find news about state government. State news gets little in-depth coverage and – if it does – there is no forum that reaches all of PA.
Massive protests rock Ukraine
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians angered by Mr. Yanukovych’s sudden reversal on the EU deal and a violent police crackdown on protesters Saturday streamed into Independence Square in Kiev’s center Sunday, carrying scarves, ribbons and flags in yellow and blue, Ukraine’s national colors, and chanting, “Get the thugs out.”…