“But it has become glaringly obvious, even to many who have supported these wars, that this can’t continue. We don’t have the money. Too many lives already have been lost and disrupted. Are we really any safer? And why must we continue kicking hornets’ nests, just because we can?
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LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
“According to data from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development, Lancaster ended its fiscal year 2011 with $221.6 million in total debt — and with a population of 59,322, that works out to $3,735.15 for every man, woman and child living in the city.”
LETTER: Harrisburg should say “No deal”
Harrisburg would be foolish to enter into another “stacked deck” agreement. Harrisburg should say “No Deal” and walk away.
Hank Paulson: Another Financial Crisis Is ‘a Certainty’
Paulson added that Congress has tied the hands of the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department in dealing with a future crisis. Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Paulson’s Treasury in 2008 used its exchange stabilization fund to guarantee the assets of money market mutual funds, “a measure that prevented a run on those funds that would have crippled the financial system.” The Treasury would not be permitted to do that today…
SWAP: “Nothing more than a form of gambling with public funds”
…Former State Auditor General Jack Wagner, whose work uncovered the botched deals listed above, gave the Senate Local Government Committee a more accurate definition at the panel’s hearing Monday.
Warner’s message to Harrisburg City Council: ‘Take it or leave it’
Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) CEO Jim Warner faced tough questions at Harrisburg city council meeting Thursday night. The council meeting was held to consider the city receiver’s plan to sell the Harrisburg incinerator to the Lancaster authority.
Exiting the Solar System and Fulfilling a Dream
“This is historic stuff, a bit like the first exploration of Earth, and we had to look at the data very, very carefully,” said Edward C. Stone, 77, NASA’s top Voyager expert, who has been working on the project since 1972. He said he was excited about what comes next. “It’s now the start of a whole new mission,” he said.
Proposal for Pa. graduation tests passes hurdle
The regulations would trigger perhaps the biggest changes in Pennsylvania school curricula in two decades, even as proponents sought to tamp down concerns over heavy-handed and centralized government intrusion into schools by stressing that each district would still control its curriculum and decide when to administer state-designed graduation tests called Keystone Exams…
LETTER: A master stroke in history
President Barack Obama has just won a monumental victory for the USA and the civilized world, with a self motivated but valuable assist from Vladimir Putin, in causing Syria to sign onto the treaty against use of chemical and biological weapons, and had done so notwithstanding resistance and opposition from most of the American people and its elected representatives.
No more books: High school goes all digital
Stepinac officials worked for a year with Pearson, the education company that has long dominated the textbook world, to design and create a unique digital library that is bound to be studied by other private and public schools…
Politics and the law clash with Corbett special counsel hiring
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: If there was any doubt that a nationally watched challenge to Pennsylvania’s ban on same-sex marriage has a large political component, the hiring of a private attorney to defend the Commonwealth should put that notion to rest.
Cabinet secretary outlines steps to stop ‘cash for convicts’
A new state checking system designed to stop inmates in county and state prisons from receiving unemployment compensation benefits is projected to bring savings of more than $100 million this year, a state cabinet secretary told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
Putin Writes Op-Ed for NY Times: America Not ‘Exceptional’
“A strike would increase violence and unleash a new wave of terrorism. It could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa…
U.S. weapons reaching Syrian rebels
The arms are being delivered as the United States is also shipping new types of nonlethal gear to rebels. That aid includes vehicles, sophisticated communications equipment and advanced combat medical kits…