PENNSYLVANIA INDEPENDENT: As the nation looks to the Philadelphia trial of Kermit Gosnell and his “house of horrors” abortion clinic, a grand jury report alleges that substantial regulatory failures at the Pennsylvania Department of Health allowed gruesome actions go undetected — or detected but unresolved…
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Corbett needs Democrat help to win second term
Tom Corbett needs help from seven Democrat state senators to even sniff at a second four-year governor’s term next year. Corbett claims he personally was not aware Republican State Senator Jane Orie should be investigated for using state workers for campaign purposes. His attorney general office, however, snubbed a claim of such conduct by one of the workers.
Putin deflects Hannover, Germany bare breast demonstration with humor
Six hundred fifty four Russian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are funded from abroad. Recently a new law came into effect in Russia, demanding these NGOs register as “Foreign Agents”. In colloquial Russian this expression is practically a synonym of the word “spy”.
LETTER: How come Intell’s CC article only published in its E-edition?
Found this article in the E-edition of today’s LNP. Unless I missed it, it is not posted at Lancaster Online. Suprise, Surprise!
A $150 million gamble. Why? And says who?
“Harrisburg incinerator: Should it be desired or disdained?” is the second and much better installment of a two part series concerning the proposed acquisition of the long troubled Harrisburg incinerator by the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority (LCSWMA.) It is thorough and informative.
LETTER: Much to be investigated in local area if LNP chose to actually do so
Re: “Withdrawal symptoms from omitting the newspaper at breakfast” LNP seems to be on a ‘crusade’ to identify themselves as the ‘local paper’, where they report on ancillary items of limited interest, or are self-serving for limited ‘power base’.
Does proposal to buy Harrisburg’s trouble-plagued incinerator reveal more of LCSWMA’s imprudent risk taking?
Moody’s did not explain its rationale beyond saying it needed more information on the largely secretive deal. But Moody’s certainly sent a powerful warning to investors, and the Lancaster community.
Wolf’s clothing: Corbett could have done better for public health
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE Editorial: Of all the people Gov. Tom Corbett could’ve nominated to head Pennsylvania’s Department of Health, he chose acting secretary Michael Wolf, who lacks a medical or public health background.
Time has proven Art Morris at least partly right concerning Conestoga View
We have no idea of the cause for this recent decline in state rating. It could be the need to skimp on services due to reduced governmental subsidies or clients inability to pay more. It could be slack management. Or there may be other factors. Nor do we know whether the same would have occurred under county ownership.
Withdrawal symptoms from omitting the newspaper at breakfast
For the past forty-five years, morning breakfast was combined with the reading of either the Intelligencer Journal or the Lancaster Sunday News. It was a pleasant way of starting the day and keeping current with the most important local, state, national and world news.
Experts: State’s turnpike corruption ‘the worst such case’
Pennsylvania’s corruption appears to be “the worst such case, of a large scale, over a long period of time,” said Robert Poole, transportation fellow at the Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank in Los Angeles. The grand jury report covered activities over a decade
RNC Passes Unanimous Resolution Affirming GOP Is Still Against Gay Marriage
“[T]he Republican National Committee affirms its support for marriage as the union of one man and one woman, and as the optimum environment in which to raise healthy children for the future of America; and be it further resolved, the Republican National Committee implores the U. S. Supreme Court to uphold the sanctity of marriage in its rulings on California’s Proposition 8 and the Federal Defense of Marriage Act,” the resolution, first obtained by Chris Moody of Yahoo News, read.
Why is Lancaster’s population so flagrantly overweight?
According to the national Center for Disease Control, the national rate for obesity in 2010 had grown to 35.7%. Those overweight, but not obese, amount to another 30%. From personal observations, we would wager that the rate for obesity in the Lancaster area equals and likely exceeds the national average.
Toomey’s support for background checks could be a game-changer
LEHIGH VALLEY EXPTRESS-TIMES Editorial: U. S. Sen. Pat Toomey seems willing to trade his “A” rating from the National Rifle Association for an expanded system of background checks for gun buyers. On Wednesday Toomey, R-Pa., joined with Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., in support of an amendment that breathed new life into a Senate attempt to extend background checks to gun shows and online sales, while stopping short of person-to-person private sales and a national gun registry.