Article “OxyContin a gateway to heroin for upper-income addicts” observes: “As addicts move from legitimate prescriptions to the black market of pure, precisely measured narcotic pain pills to the dirty world of dealers, needles and kitchen table chemists, health officials and police are noting sharp increases in overdoses, crime and other public health problems…
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Imam Tipped Officials To Plans To Derail Train
“At the end of the day, it’s not how you dress, it’s how you think,” he said. “In our community we may look a little different, but in our hearts we love Canada. It’s our country. It’s our tribe. We want safety for all Canadians regardless of their religion.”
Gov. office says it will comply with court ruling
A seven-judge panel of the Commonwealth Court sided with The Associated Press on Tuesday in a battle over access to those records, saying that the governor’s office failed to justify the redaction of 17 emails and 28 calendar entries.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Confession Came Before Miranda Rights Were Read
HUFFINGTON POST: …The Boston Globe reports that authorities are not worried about being able to enter Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s confession as evidence of his guilt “because they have a strong witness: the man who was abducted by the Tsarnaev brothers last Thursday night.” …
CC Series Chapter 23 Revised: The Inquisition
The two Commissioners, one Republican, one Democrat, had come to believe it was their duty to protect Lancaster County taxpayers concerning the downtown convention center and hotel project.
Joe Sestak — candidate Joe Sestak — candidate for what, from where?
Democrats would welcome a Sestak run for governor, but want him to make up his mind and signal his intentions soon. Geeting notes that potential candidates for Sestak’s old congressional district, for example, would like to know whether it’s worth their time raising money and building an organization…
To truly serve the cause of justice, Pennsylvania should abolish the death penalty
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: …Since the 1990s, Pennsylvania has executed just three people. All waived their appeals and went voluntarily to the death chamber at Rockview State Prison in Centre. The last was Gary Heidnik of Philadelphia in 1999.
USA TODAY Poll: Public support for gun control ebbs
USA TODAY: …Americans are more narrowly divided on the issue than in recent months, and backing for a bill has slipped below 50%, the poll finds. By 49%-45%, those surveyed favor Congress passing a new gun-control law. In an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll in early April, 55% had backed a stricter gun law, which was down from 61% in February…
Federal Appeals Court Rejects Researcher’s Bid to Grow Medical Marijuana
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: The US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston Monday sided with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in rejecting University of Massachusetts-Amherst scientist Dr. Lyle Craker’s appeal of the agency’s decision to deny him a license to grow medical marijuana for research purposes.
Can the LCSWMA fish swallow the Harrisburg Incinerator whale?
According to 2012 financial information posted on the web site of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority web site, its earnings last year amounted to approximately $6.5 million and net worth came to around $145 million.
Fixing roads and bridges, the Harrisburg way
According to American Petroleum Institute at least 21 other states have sliding scale vehicle registration fees based on varying factors from weight to age to value. In most of these states, legislators made the guy with a brand new Escalade pay a higher registration fee than the working single mother driving a beat up 10-year-old Caravan.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL / LANCASTER NEW ERA
“4-story, 32-unit building would be built at 151 W. Walnut St., a former brownfield site at North Prince and Walnut streets that is now a parking lot… “Authority board members voted to become equity investors in a $4.8 million apartment construction project…
What Pat Toomey’s bipartisan work on background checks could mean for him
PITTSBURGH GAZETTE: The Senate’s rejection of a plan to expand background checks for gun purchasers was a public policy failure but not necessarily a political one for Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, who bucked his party to sponsor the legislation…
‘Margaret Fuller,’ by Megan Marshall
NEW YORK TIMES Book Review: Margaret Fuller died on July 19, 1850, in a shipwreck off Fire Island. In her intellectual prime and at the height of her influence as a social reformer, she was returning home from Europe with her Italian husband and their child.