The drop in sales appears to be coming from weaker demand, rather than tighter supplies, especially because inventories of homes for sale rose, Kolko said…

“Things were not done the right way here,” Unkovic says. “Things were done in ways that are just hard to explain. They’re even hard to explain to the people who have testified to you, because they point fingers at each other.

For example, while Sen. Pat Toomey thinks the Affordable Care Act would be best repealed, he is working with Democrats to amend it instead. Toomey told the Inquirer Editorial Board this week that because President Obama would not sign any bill that kills his signature legislation…

“Somebody said, you know: ‘You’re going to be criticized for this.’ Kane said. “I said: ‘We will not give her a job because she’s my sister. But we won’t take one away either.’”

WASHINGTON POST: “Given the reported medical benefits of marijuana, does the president believe the government should reconsider?” a CNN correspondent asked about the federally banned substance during the White House briefing Wednesday.

According to lengthy transcripts the court released in an extraordinary show of transparency, Mr. Bo, 64, called his wife’s assertions that she had noticed anonymous deposits in their bank account “laughable.”

NEW YORK TIMES Op Ed: IN 1982, polls showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created human beings in their present form. Thirty years later, the fraction of the population who are creationists is 46 percent.

Kane’s decision is questionable, based on what is known before the judge imposed a gag order. Unless some critical facts are yet to emerge, the Mancini case seems like the kind that a compassionate prosecutor, one who knows the pain families often endure as a loved one suffers a prolonged and difficult death, would refuse to pursue…

NEWSMAX: The National Security Agency illegally gathered as many as 56,000 emails and other electronic communications between Americans with no connection to terrorism as part of a collection program that was ruled unconstitutional by a secret spy court in 2011.

USA TODAY: The number of physicians accepting new Medicare patients rose by one-third between 2007 and 2011 and is now higher than the number of physicians accepting new private insurance patients, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report obtained by USA TODAY.

General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt’s army chief, seems intent on extirpating the Brotherhood, an 85-year-old movement that commands the loyalty of a quarter of the populace, and won five votes since Mr Mubarak was brought down by popular revolt in 2011…

But let’s do the bailout math: if an average parking space in Harrisburg goes for $140 a month, that’s $1,680 a year. Times 3,000 spaces (Patriot’s inaccurate number, not mine), that generates $5,040,000 in parking revenue a year. ($140 x 12 = $1,680 x 3,000 = $5,040,000.)

The governor made the comment during a Maine Republican Party fundraiser on Aug. 12 at the home of John and Linda Fortier in Belgrade. According to the invitation, the fundraiser was a “meet and greet” for LePage and first lady Ann LePage, and an opportunity to meet Rick Bennett, the new party chairman.