WE CONNECT DOTS: Newly-elected PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane pledged she would find out if Gov. Tom Corbett deliberately slow-walked the probe of convicted child molester Jerry Sandusky. Recently she appointed a special deputy, Geoffrey Moulton, to keep this promise.
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Pennsylvania justices vote Castille out as overseer of Philadelphia courts
By a majority vote, his five colleagues instead chose a justice from the Harrisburg area as liaison with the massive court system, sources familiar with the action said Wednesday.
The tainted prosecution of Justice Joan Orie Melvin
A public impeachment trial in the state senate is not only desirable in the case of Justice Melvin, but necessary.
For the second time in less than 20 years a Pennsylvania state Supreme Court Justice has been found guilty of criminal misconduct and is facing certain ouster or impeachment from the politicized and troubled state bench.
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
Editorial “Bad medicine” is subtitled: “If Medicaid were operated like Medicare, it wouldn’t be a broken system, and low-income people wouldn’t pay so much for health care.”
PSU trustee alumni election draws 39 candidates
PHILLY.COM / AP: The latest alumni election for three seats on Penn State’s Board of Trustees has drawn more than three dozen candidates, less than half the record 86-person slate on last year’s ballot…
Sinkholes are common in Fla. (and Lancaster) but rarely cause death
USA TODAY: …Sinkholes are nothing new in Florida. Thousands of them develop each year. Dozens of them swallow buildings.
Big Pharma ignores developing therapeutic agents for treating mental illness
The February 23 issue of Science News contains a long article by Laura Sanders on the the dearth of effective new psychotropic drugs and the generally dismal record of Big Pharma in developing new therapeutic agents for treating mental illness. The article leads off with a report of the “crushing” failure of stage three clinical trials of a new drug, LY2140023, being developed by Lilly to treat schizophrenia.
Income Posts Largest Drop In 20 Years As Consumer Spending Rises
Income tumbled 3.6 percent, the largest drop since January 1993. Part of the decline was payback for a 2.6 percent surge in December as businesses, anxious about higher taxes, rushed to pay dividends and bonuses before the new year.
Amtrak carried record passenger traffic in 2012
Amtrak turns a profit on only four of its more than 40 routes, the study showed, all of them in the Northeast corridor, a shortcoming that raised the hackles of some Republicans in the last Congress…
Corman scolds PSU president for releasing Freeh Report without reviewing or defending it.
The release by Penn State officials of the Freeh Report on the Penn State/Sandusky scandal without reviewing it or subsequently defending it hurt the university and led to serious negative consequences, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, R-Centre, told university president Rodney Erickson today.
CC Series Chapter Fourteen revised: The Honey Pot
The sponsors of the convention center and hotel proved to be very adept at acquiring public money for their project.The vast majority of the money, tens of millions of dollars, came through government-backed bonds, loans, and state grants. Another two-and-a-half million dollars or so per year was deposited into Lancaster County Convention Center Authority (LCCCA) coffers from its share of the hotel room rental tax.
Corbett says he’ll meet with Sebelius on Medicaid
PHILLY.COM / AP: Gov. Tom Corbett said Wednesday that he and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius have agreed to meet to discuss issues surrounding an expansion of Medicaid that would potentially extend taxpayer-paid health care coverage to hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians…
Most colleges don’t care about GPAs
… each college scours high school grades and transcripts according to its own criteria. Swarthmore’s Bock, for example, says he looks for evidence that students have taken the most challenging classes they can. University of Florida’s admissions staff recalculates student grade point averages based on five academic areas…
Special prosecutor to investigate secrecy issues in Penn State grand jury
But Feudale has recently been trying to sort out a legal dispute involving whether former Penn State lawyer Cynthia Baldwin should have been present at a grand jury proceeding, and his order made specific reference to a section of the state’s criminal procedure rule titled “Who May Be Present During Session of an Investigating Grand Jury.” …