In most regards, I think that Gray is unopposed shows he has a high approval rating. Things are going well in the city and I believe most people feel the biggest problems are beyond his control (not that he isn’t trying to address them).
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Thornburgh, Leader, Ridge, Rendell back judicial appointments
Former Govs. Dick Thornburgh, Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell held a conference call to tout a constitutional amendment to replace statewide judicial elections with a panel that would recommend a pool of judges. The sitting governor would then pick the judge or justice who would then be confirmed by the state Senate.
CC Chapter Eighteen Revised: A New Mayor plays Hamlet
Another issue crowding the convention center issue off the front pages in the latter part of 2005 was the Lancaster city mayoral race. Running for a third term was bellicose, project-friendly, Mayor Charlie Smithgall. The democrats fielded J. Richard “Rick” Gray, a Lancaster attorney.
Snitch: Action Thriller With a Drug War Message
DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: Snitch is a Hollywood action thriller with a message, and it’s a message that is so far playing well with audiences and theaters across the land. The $15 million crime and justice pic starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Susan Sarandon has already done more than $32 million in gross box office receipts, and its being held over for a fourth week in select theaters around the country.
Harrisburg to seek bids to privatize sanitation and trash collection
City receiver eyes selling Public Works Building and grounds adjacent to Harrisburg’s incinerator, to the Lancaster Authority with the incinerator, to bury ash. ‘The secretive plan is driven by a perceived need to help shoe-horn the pending deal with the Lancaster Authority, whose bid to buy the troubled Harrisburg incinerator has run into increasing political and financial turmoil’
How the US Armed Forces were reformed and the surprising conclusion
According to the book jacket, “ ‘The Insurgents’ is the inside story of the small group of soldier-scholars, led by General David Petraeus, who plotted to revolutionize one of the largest, oldest, and most hidebound institutions – the United States military.
CC Chapter Seventeen Revised: A Board Divided
Whether by design or not, the Conestoga View story effectively pushed the convention center off the front pages in the last half of 2005. The legal sale of a county asset and a personnel matter utterly dominated the news in Lancaster County during this period.
Jeb Bush CPAC Speech Says GOP Must Stop Being ‘Anti Everything’ Party
“All too often we’re associated with being ‘anti’ everything,” Bush said. “Way too many people believe Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker, and the list goes on and on and on. Many voters are simply unwilling to choose our candidates even though they share our core beliefs, because those voters feel unloved, unwanted and unwelcome in our party.”…
Consumer Sentiment Hit by Fiscal Policy Concerns in March
NEWSMAX: Consumer sentiment tumbled to its lowest in over a year in early March as more Americans were dissatisfied with government economic policies and fewer expected to see improvements in growth or the labor market, a survey released on Friday showed.
Iraq: 10 years later
FINANCIAL TIMES: …Ten years later – and more than a year after Barack Obama pulled out the last troops – Iraq is indeed sovereign, as the US president declared. But it is not, as he also said, stable.
Obama: Iran One Year Away From Nuclear Weapon
NEWSMAX: Iran is about a year away from developing a nuclear weapon and the U.S. remains committed to doing everything in its power to prevent that from happening, President Barack Obama said in an exclusive interview aired Thursday on Israeli TV.
Younger Generations Lag Parents in Wealth-Building
NEW YORK TIMES: …The Urban Institute study is one of many to show something of a perfect storm of economic trends battering younger workers. One is the collapse of the housing bubble. Young people who bought homes as prices started to decline in 2006 are often underwater on their mortgages today.
State electricity purchase deal involving Harrisburg incinerator a week away
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: State officials confirmed Thursday that they are within a week of signing off on terms key to the sale of Harrisburg’s incinerator and the resolution of more than $340 million in debt tied to the trash-burning facility.
Pa. auditor says charter payments improper
PHILLY.COM / AP: Pennsylvania’s new auditor general says improper payments to charter schools may have cost state taxpayers millions of dollars.