The Lancaster County Board of Commissioner in conjunction with the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs urge Veterans to beware of scams. Veterans, active military personnel and their dependents should never pay for help to apply for veterans benefits, according to the Pa. Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA).
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DEP documents reveal long history of hazardous waste at Harrisburg incinerator
EDITOR: Earlier this week, NewsLanc received about 1,000 pages of DEP files documenting the long history of environmental problems at the Harrisburg incinerator. The below, drawn from these documents, is the long history of unaddressed dangerous hazardous waste at the site.
Stop the Leaks
The United States and its allies were trying to locate a master bomb builder affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, a group that was extremely difficult to penetrate. After considerable effort and danger, an agent was inserted inside the group. Although that agent succeeded in foiling one serious bombing plot against the United States, he was rendered ineffective once his existence was disclosed…
Did Putin cast faux ‘veterans’ for Victory Parade?
One of the unexpected results of the Moscow WWII Victory Parade is a scandal concerning some supposed war veterans that took part in the celebration widely covered by Russian Internet.
Penn State: Federal judge to rule on NCAA dismissal in a few weeks.
Corbett’s lawyers argued that the NCAA acted beyond its authority and conspired to impose the sanctions that would wreak havoc on Pennsylvania’s economy and weaken the university’s standing, while polishing the organization’s enforcement reputation.
How to legalize pot
NEW YORK TIMES Column: … “At some point you have to say, a law that people don’t obey is a bad law,” [Mark] Kleiman told me when I asked how his views had evolved. He has not come to believe marijuana is harmless, but he suspects that the best hope of minimizing its harm may be a well-regulated market.
US senators accuse Apple of avoiding billions in taxes
The Senate report said Apple’s elaborate use of loopholes for international profits allowed it to save US tax on $44bn in “otherwise taxable offshore income” in the past four years. But the committee said there was no indication Apple had done anything illegal in attempting to minimise its tax bill …
Not your grandfather’s Pennsylvania anymore
JOHNSTOWN TRIBUNE-DEMOCRAT Column by Michael Young and Terry Madonna) ….Indeed, much recent polling in the state strongly suggests a long-term dynamic shift is underway in public opinion, especially among younger Pennsylvanians – a shift that may foreshadow major changes in Pennsylvania’s political culture.
Undoing of Obama Administration is by Obama
Four months into his second term, President Obama has yet to get it together. President George Bush, with his tight inner circle, left no doubt who was in charge. Same can’t be said for Obama.
Gasoline lead may explain as much as 90 percent of the rise and fall of violent crime
And with that we have our molecule: tetraethyl lead, the gasoline additive invented by General Motors in the 1920s to prevent knocking and pinging in high-performance engines. As auto sales boomed after World War II, and drivers in powerful new cars increasingly asked service station attendants to “fill ‘er up with ethyl,” they were unwittingly creating a crime wave two decades later.…
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
In a column “Where politics trumps principle” , Gil Smart writes: “…But what becomes clear now — and should have been clear all along — is that Obama, and the type of governing ‘liberalism’ he represents, is a mirage. This is simply more of the same.
State: Let’s make a deal
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE Column: …House Republicans don’t want a $2.5 billion transportation plan. Many want none at all. Senate Republicans don’t want House Majority Leader Mike Turzai’s idea of liquor privatization. They can’t count on getting all Democrats for transportation. So it’s possible all we might get is a state budget
Just when most needed, LCSWMA board cancels its May meeting
“Eighty percent of life is just showing up,” Woody Allen once remarked.
By this simple measure, the board of directors of the Lancaster County Solid Waste (LCSWMA) failed this week, as they didn’t even bother to show up for this month’s board meeting scheduled for Friday, May 17.
Is Ernie Schreiber at it again?
It was with sadness for the death ofan infant, whether before or after birth, and the plight of its teenage mother that we viewed the article “McCaskey student out of prison; Accused of putting baby in trash can.” But it was with horror and disgust that we saw the nineteen year old girls picture on the front page.