Gov. Leader returned home from World War II Naval service, borrowed some money and began his own chicken hatchery. His father had been a school teacher, raised poultry and was a Roosevelt Democrat in York County. Gov. Leader earned a degree from University of Pennsylvania and did graduate work intending to be a teacher.

USA TODAY: …The ruling is also a disappointment to a degree, [U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Ruth] ] Ginsburg said, because it was not argued in weighty terms of advancing women’s rights. Rather, the Roe opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, centered on the right to privacy and asserted that it extended to a woman’s decision on whether to end a pregnancy…

DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: In a ruling that will leave California’s patchwork approach to medical marijuana dispensary regulation in place, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday that local governments can ban dispensaries from operating within their jurisdictions.

Thanks to Pap tests, fatal cervical cancers are almost unknown today in rich countries. But the disease kills an estimated 275,000 women a year in poor countries where Pap tests are impractical and the vaccine is far too expensive for the average woman to afford, so the price cut could lead to a significant advance in women’s health.

Through homicide, suicide and accidents, guns cause twice as many deaths in young people as cancer, five times as many as heart disease and 15 times as many as infections, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics…

State and federal lawmakers, working with the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Food and Drug Administration and most law enforcement agencies, claim to be well intentioned in their zeal to stop the wave of prescription drug abuse. Unfortunately, the effort to eradicate that abuse has led to the creation of panic among doctors, pharmacists and the patients they serve.

Instead, the EPA said not enough information is available to make a determination. The federal agency endorsed the more intense study of the river DEP began last year that is continuing…

Pennsylvania political historian Paul B. Beers wrote of Gov. George M. Leader, whose tenure was 1955-1958: “The Leader administration was exciting and controversial – always politically, sometimes legislatively and often intellectually. It was an administration which could trip over hills but move mountains.”

How is the operator of the Brunswick Hotel able to compete with that? How would a new hotel, without the Marriott tax exemption and cushy contract arrangements with the Convention Center, exist on $85 a night, net of commission?

Longtime Hershey Trust reformers are expressing bitter disappointment with Wednesday’s agreement between the Hershey Trust and Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane.

To be stressed at this juncture is that ADD is a syndrome, as opposed to a disease because there’s no characteristic biopsy or laboratory test. It’s really a cluster of characteristic behaviors that can be seen in both children and adults. In my opinion, the critical mechanism responsible for those behaviors has yet to be recognized despite the increasing attention ADD has been receiving for over forty years.