THE WHITE HOUSE: One hundred fifty years after President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, President Obama penned a handwritten tribute to President Lincoln’s historic remarks. Read his essay below, then share it with others.
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Pay back what you steal and avoid prison?
“Hunsicker was the CEO of Lancaster city-based National Association of Addiction Treatment Providers during the 5-year cycle of thefts, according to testimony”
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA
“Unemployment is falling.
“School districts say between 10 and 33 percent of children entering kindergarten aren’t ready for school.
“The teenage pregnancy rate continues to fall…
Agency casts gloomy financial forecast for state
The IFO, a nonpartisan office created in 2010, projects that if state laws were to remain unchanged, Pennsylvania’s revenues over the next five years would increase at an average annual rate of 3.1 percent, failing to keep up with a 4.1 percent average annual rate of growth in expenditures.
ACLU: 1 in 10 Pa. public school students given suspensions
PHILLY.COM: …The report found the state’s 500 public school districts have dramatically increased their reliance on disciplinary practices like out-of-school suspensions and expulsions, leading to what study authors are calling “an educational crisis that goes far beyond the state’s largest school system in Philadelphia.”
Dallas, Tex. — The President has been shot.
This was a typical Friday for late November. High school football had yet to include a system of state playoffs and was over. Scholastic basketball usually did not begin until first of December. That put me in a position to help on the news side to overcome temporary short staffing.
A Clean, Well-Lit Place to Shoot Dope — In Your City, Soon?
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: The only existing supervised injection site for hard drug users in North America is Vancouver’s Insite, but panelists at a session of the International Drug Reform Conference in Denver last month said activists in a number of US cities are working to be next. (Plans are also afoot in a couple of Canadian cities.)
20,000 Hungarian children starving
According to Berta 20,000 Hungarian children only eat at school or pre-school and receive little, if anything, to eat at the weekend or during school breaks. “Summer, winter, and spring breaks are especially difficult” says Berta, whose foundation supplies food and other essentials to impoverished families.
Sentenced to a Slow Death
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL: If this were happening in any other country, Americans would be aghast. A sentence of life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for trying to sell $10 of marijuana to an undercover officer? For sharing LSD at a Grateful Dead concert?
The “mea culpa” editorial that LNP can’t find the guts to write
Until the day of LNP accepts responsibility, the citizenry will not know whether the press is protector or predator. And every one of the ongoing self-defensive, editorialized ‘news articles’ will be subject to ridicule.
Danger of Fukushima atomic fuel rod removal finally recognized
They had been saying to the world they had done this hundreds of times before, it was routine etc. But, they took another look and they are seeing what we wrote about — it is not the same, more complex with bent fuel rods.
LETTER: Does Convention Center boost local economy?
My guess is that precious little economic benefit, other than Penn Square Partner’s Marriott hotel of course, is being generated for those outlying businesses.
CONVENTION CENTER BAIL OUT: LNP and PSP have no sense of shame
The chickens have come home to roost, as foreseen by the former County Commissioners and those who questioned the viability of the proposed convention center project. Meanwhile the project’s sponsoring partners and equitable owners of the Marriott Hotel endeavor to rewrite history concerning their past misrepresentations and current irresponsibility.
U.S. Investigates Currency Trades by Major Banks
If those suspicions are correct, the group of traders shared a mission to alter the price of foreign currencies, the largest and yet least regulated market in the financial world. And ultimately, they flooded the market with trades that potentially raised the cost of currency for clients but aided the banks’ own investments…