The Harrisburg Patriot-News today publishes three articles on why Tom Corbett isn’t worried about a Sandusky investigation, and related subjects. They were written by Charles Thompson, co-writer of the original “Bonusgate” article.

But that’s one of the meals offered in the cafeteria at People For People Charter School in Philadelphia. And it’s served family-style. Students pass serving dishes around circular tables, where they eat off plates, not cafeteria trays, and use silverware instead of plastic utensils.

The Office of Attorney General and attorneys in the Corbett administration have defended the law so far, and the parties have begun preparing for the trial this summer. But asked after legislative budget hearings last week if her office will defend the law at that proceeding, Ms. Kane responded: “We have talked about it frequently in our office, and we will make a decision as soon as we possibly can.”

Federal, state and local governments now employ 500,000 fewer workers than they did on the eve of the recession in 2007, the longest and deepest decline in total government employment since the aftermath of World War II…

HUFFINGTON POST: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie became the eighth Republican governor to back expanding Medicaid under President Barack Obama’s health care reform law on Tuesday.

HARRISBURG PATRIOT NEWS EDITORIAL: … Education: Pennsylvania would lose about $26.4 million in funding for primary and secondary education, putting around 360 teacher and aide jobs at risk. About 29,000 fewer students would be served and approximately 90 fewer schools would receive funding. More than 2,000 kids would lose access to early childhood education.

POLITICO: …Leading Republicans are betting — perhaps badly — that the $85 billion in sequester cuts set to take effect on Friday won’t tank markets and the public won’t immediately feel the impact.

Even among the 36% who say they own a gun, only about one in three would be likely to bring it to school.

The study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, looked at Swedish and Japanese men – two countries with the longest life expectancies today. It concluded that their counterparts in 1800 would have had lifespans that were closer to those of the earliest hunter-gatherer humans than they would to adult men in both countries today.

CAPITOLWIRE: U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Montgomery, made it clear during an interview with Capitolwire today that she plans to run for governor and will be surprised if she does not do so. She also said she expects to run for re-election or governor, but not both simultaneously.

WE CONNECT DOTS: Two more members of the powerful Orie family(R) were convicted of political corruption last week in Allegheny County Court. The convictions prove that Gov. Tom Corbett(R) could not shield all of his friends.

Not that the Governor didn’t try.

PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE / AP: A Republican state lawmaker on Friday publicly urged Gov. Tom Corbett to support an expansion of Medicaid eligibility, a sign that Corbett may be facing a split in his party as several other GOP governors of heavily populated states embrace the expansion.

…We are admirers of Adams and his Sunday News, as is evident from the Watchdog critiques. However, Adams is factually wrong and, more importantly, the Lancaster Newspapers are so neglectful of website coverage to date that the web site editions may not exist in another decade if and when print publication ceases.