HUFFINGTON POST: …The network launched with an hour-long introduction to what it will be offering. The main message that the promo hammered home over and over again was that Americans were being denied the news they deserved on television.

Even as Mr. Xi has sought to prepare some reforms to expose China’s economy to stronger market forces, he has undertaken a “mass line” campaign to enforce party authority that goes beyond the party’s periodic calls for discipline. The internal warnings to cadres show that Mr. Xi’s confident public face has been accompanied by fears that the party is vulnerable to an economic slowdown…

The Dodd-Frank law, named after the Democratic architects of the bill in Congress, was crafted in an attempt to address the regulatory shortcomings exposed by the crisis. Yet amid efforts to reshape the law from big banks, US regulators have failed to agree on certain key aspects of its implementation…

Pennsylvanians will be among those most affected, since US Airways has a hub in Philadelphia, is a leading carrier in Harrisburg and provides many flights to several other airports in the state.

Actions like these are the reason why the Corbett re-election race has still not been taken off the board. Democrats are known for overcoming all odds in racing to defeats. This in spite of almost a million plurality state voter registration edge.

Some of our biggest criminal cases, past and present, involve the startling question: Why didn’t they call the cops? This was driven home this week when Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane acknowledged that her office was investigating the finances of the Harrisburg incinerator, nearly 18 months after being asked to do.

Don’t they realize that the most troubled “kids” signal their emotional distress by trying alcohol, tobacco and pot early, often as young as 12 or thirteen and- although the kids themselves may not realize it, such early initiations are really a cry for help…

But big drawbacks have prevented the wholesale adoption of trash-to-gas technology in the United States: incineration is polluting, and the capital costs of new plants are enormous. Gasification systems can expend a tremendous amount of energy to produce a tiny amount of electricity. Up to this point, it hasn’t seemed worth the trouble.

But the courses have not yet produced profound change, partly because they offer no credit and do not lead to a degree. The disruption may be approaching, though, as Georgia Tech, which has one of the country’s top computer science programs, plans to offer a MOOC-based online master’s degree in computer science for $6,600 — far less than the $45,000 on-campus price…

NEW YORK TIMES: Most nations, including many close allies of the United States, require up to a week’s notice before American warplanes are allowed to cross their territory.

FOREIGN POLICY: Area 51 is a touchstone of America’s cultural mythology. It rose to notoriety in 1989, when a Las Vegas man claimed he had worked at the secret facility to discover the secrets of crashed alien hardware, spawning two decades of conspiracy theories and speculation about little green men.

NEWSMAX: …”Former Secretary Hillary Clinton is likely to run for President in 2016, and CNN and NBC have both announced programming that amounts to little more than extended commercials promoting [her],” the RNC said in the resolution passed at its summer meeting in Boston.

[Dauphin County District Attorney Ed Marsico] referred to Kane “issues regarding the Harrisburg incinerator, including the recent hearings before the Senate,” but would not elaborate on specifics.