The current deal seems to be an attempt to bail out the City of Harrisburg’s and Dauphin County’s $350 million in Incinerator debt at the expense of Lancaster, rather than a normal business proposition based on sound economic considerations.
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Emancipation Sweet
Emancipation Sweet by Amanda Kemp is a Theatre for Transformation production at the Ware center in Lancaster PA. Performances are Thursday May 30th at 7:30pm, Saturday June 1st at 7:30pm and Sunday June 2nd at 3pm.
Nearly 40 percent of mothers are now the family breadwinners, report says
“The decade of the 2000s witnessed the most rapid change in the percentage of married mothers earning more than their husbands of any decade since 1960,” said Philip Cohen, a University of Maryland sociologist who studies gender and family trends.
Colorado Gov. Signs Recreational Marijuana Regulations Into Law
One of the bills signed by Hickenlooper calls for a referendum in November on setting a 15 percent excise tax and an additional 10 percent sales tax on marijuana sales…
Health of Americans 65 and older: PA ranks #17
The report focuses on 34 measures of senior health, including physical inactivity, obesity, self-reported health status, poverty, drug coverage, hospital re-admission rates and flu vaccinations. The data analyzed is from more than a dozen government agencies and private research groups…
LETTER: LNP once-enthusiastic faith costing it serious money
When construction bids for the downtown Lancaster convention center were opened in the summer of 2006, they were so high that a funding gap of more than $20 million was the result. Several weeks later, officials released a complex “solution” which included the responsibility for building a parking garage being transferred from the LCCCA to Lancaster Newspapers.
Chaotic mayoral election, key finance staff turnovers, and environmental concerns in Harrisburg complicate LCSWMA incinerator bond bailout
The proposed sale of the Harrisburg incinerator to the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA) grew more complicated, and perhaps less certain, with last week’s mayoral and city council elections in Harrisburg.
Attorney General can push Trust to meet Milton Hershey’s goals
The Hershey trustees have acknowledged the school has an obligation to enroll more students, setting a modest goal of 2,000 students. But according to the school’s 2011 non-profit IRS tax filing, the school’s revenues of $335 million exceeded its expenses by $130 million. That’s a lot of money going unspent.
In Pennsylvania, swaps are a $17.2 billion problem
PA INDEPENDENT: It all started in 2003 when the state passed a law legalizing interest-rate swap transactions for local governments. Marketed as a way to help local governments manage borrowing costs, swaps are deals made between investment banks and local governments.
A ‘Women’s Viagra’ May Finally Be Available By 2016
Dr [Adriaan] Tuiten says that up to 43 per cent of women suffer from a low sex drive at some point in their lives and that, far from turning women into sex maniacs, the drug will simply raise a low libido to normal levels…
Republicans See Obamacare Issues as Key to 2014
NEWSMAX: If Republicans were writing a movie script for next year’s congressional elections, the working title might be “2014: Apocalypse of Obamacare.”
EDITORIAL: To truly honor our fallen
Let us not just honor the fallen on Memorial Day, but let us also hold responsible those who recklessly and foolishly and yes, even selfishly, sent them into ‘harm’s way’. Let us not produce more victims due to the military-industrial complex and popular ignorance and emotion.
What New Yorkers Need to Know about New Bike Share
WALL STREET JOURNAL: New York City officials plan to launch the long-awaited bike-sharing program on Memorial Day, nearly a year after it was first slated to open, and amid the launch of similar systems in cities around the world.
Wrong vote in primary “teachable” moment
Wife, a lifelong registered Democrat, voted in the Republican primary at a polling place in Greenville, Mercer County. Here is how we discovered it and what happened, I think.