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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.)

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.

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?

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.

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…