“It seems so clear now that the university and Coach Paterno should have been speaking to each other and working with each other during those five days. Looking back it seems unbelievable that neither side communicated with one another. I often think of how things might have been different if any small changes were made that week…”
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Pennsylvania courts in crisis Part 1
With the conviction of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin this February, Pennsylvania now faces the specter of the second legislative impeachment of a high court judge in 20 years.
Russian Reaction to Chavez’s Death
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, in power for 14 years, died March 5th from cancer at the age of fifty-eight. Russian media covered this event as the most important news in the world. Openly anti–American, Hugo Chávez was one of the very few World leaders, who completely supported Putin’s foreign politics.
Lawyers say thousands wrongly lost Medicaid
DENVER POST / AP: The number of eligible people who were purged from Pennsylvania’s Medicaid rolls amid Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration crackdown aimed at welfare waste is possibly many thousands higher than state officials told lawmakers earlier this week, Philadelphia-based lawyers for the poor told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Lancaster Purchase of Harrisburg Incinerator Could Hurt Credit Rating Says Moody’s
WASTE BUSINESS JOURNAL: Moody’s investor service may be throwing a monkey wrench into Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority’s (LCSWMA) plans to buy the troubled Harrisburg, PA incinerator. While affirming its A3 rating of the LCSWMA’s $30.6 million of debt, Moody’s said the acquisition could result in a “multiple-notch rating change.”
New York’s Condom (and syringe) Bait-and-Switch
“This is a huge problem,” says Isaac Hernandez, an outreach worker with the Foundation for Research on Sexually Transmitted Diseases (FROST’D), a Harlem-based harm-reduction nonprofit. Hernandez has been driving the white van to its parking spot on Surf Avenue for the past 12 years to distribute food, clean syringes, and the condoms that his group receives from the Department of Health.
Half of Minimum Wage Workers Are Adults
Citing government research data, NBC reported that minimum wage workers are no longer just high-school kids flipping burgers to raise money to pay for school clothes or a used car. Three quarters of them, according to the research, have already graduated from high school, but end up in low-income, service-related jobs ranging from fast-food restaurants to child care services…
The Professors’ Big Stage
NEW YORK TIMES COLUMN: I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”
Buffett admits an ‘almost unnatural’ newspaper love’
People are interested in local high school sports. You can’t cover all of the high school sports in Chicago or New York or Los Angeles. “But you can do that in Omaha.” If you are a local reader of The New York Times or Los Angeles Times, he says, it’s doubtful that you would know many of the people whose obituaries you encounter. “But in Grand Island, Neb., you know all of them.”…
The battle of the house judges: ‘Not illegal, but merely unethical’
Today’s political turmoil on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is nothing much new. The following article was excerpted and only slightly updated from Bill Keisling’s 1993 book “When the Levee Breaks, a history of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.”
MSNBC: Disclose Fix-the-Debt co-chair Ed Rendell’s conflicts of interest when booking
CREDIOACTION.COM: (Open letter to MSNBC) ….Ed Rendell today is a co-chair of Fix the Debt — nevertheless, in media appearances on your network he is regularly introduced only as the former Democratic governor of Pennsylvania. He is special counsel to the law firm Ballard Spahr, where he focuses on privatization in housing and infrastructure. Rendell is a senior adviser at Greenhill & Co., a multinational investment bank.
Corbett, wife accepted thousands in gifts from biz execs, lobbyists
PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS: IT WAS THE hottest ticket in town when the Pittsburgh Penguins dropped the puck for hockey’s outdoor Winter Classic at Pittsburgh’s Heinz Field on New Year’s Day 2011. And Tom Corbett was among the spectators.
CC Series Chapter Fifteen Revised: Citizen Opposition
When former LCCCA Chairman and Executive Director, James Pickard, said in 2002 that it was “all-out war,” regarding the Lancaster convention center and hotel project, he was off by three years.
Referral fees given to wife of Pa. Supreme Court justice raises questions
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: To our readers: A draft of this story appeared inadvertently for several hours Sunday on the Philly.com website. Over the last decade, the wife of Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery – his chief judicial aide – has received 18 payments as referral fees for connecting law firms with clients…