When our generation was growing up, all the cousins were aspiring for high grades, good colleges, and brilliant careers in business or the professions. All that was but cousin Bob about whom we worried.
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Pres. Obama takes aim at ‘meat cleaver’ cuts
FINANCIAL TIMES: …Mr Obama’s dire message came as Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, co-chairs of the president’s 2010 bipartisan debt commission, presented a revised plan to avert the automatic cuts with $2.4tn in additional deficit reduction over 10 years.
CC Chapter Twelve Revised: New County Chair and TIF Time Warp
Lancaster County Commissioner Chairman Pete Shaub was not only making himself a nuisance to convention center project sponsors, he was also vexing those who worked with and around him.
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
The building off Datong Road, surrounded by restaurants, massage parlors and a wine importer, is the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398. A growing body of digital forensic evidence — confirmed by American intelligence officials who say they have tapped into the activity of the army unit for years — leaves little doubt that an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations, organizations and government agencies originate in and around the white tower.
Top Enforcement Officer of N.C.A.A. Is Ousted
…Amid the increasing scrutiny, Mark Emmert, the N.C.A.A.’s president, disclosed in late January that the organization’s investigators had made “shocking” missteps in a major inquiry involving the University of Miami — and as a result, the N.C.A.A. commissioned an unprecedented outside investigation of its own enforcement program…
Analysis: What if Gov. Tom Corbett gave up after one term?
….The conjecture over Corbett’s intention to run again has been based largely on persistently low approval numbers in polls, and a proposed budget that received a cold shoulder from the GOP-controlled state legislature earlier this month.
Prison and the Poverty Trap
NEW YORK TIMES: Why are so many American families trapped in poverty? Of all the explanations offered by Washington’s politicians and economists, one seems particularly obvious in the low-income neighborhoods near the Capitol: because there are so many parents like Carl Harris and Charlene Hamilton…
Allyson Schwartz nearly certain to face Corbett, insiders say
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz is all but certain to run for governor next year, buoyed by a $3.1 million campaign fund and a recent poll that showed her leading Gov. Corbett in a test matchup, according to several people familiar with the Montgomery County Democrat’s thinking…
Does Tom Corbett have a political death wish?
WE CONNECT DOTS: The Republican Governor’s efforts to expand gambling through privatizing the PA Lottery suffered a major setback last week when Attorney General Kathleen Kane rejected the contract.
Hershey Trust gives two different stories
Re: Hershey Trust announces more student housing at site of controversial golf course. The announcement above by the Milton Hershey School quotes Anthony Colistra, School President, saying: ” ‘We purchased this property as part of our plan to one day build additional student housing on it,” he said.
Gil: College grads need not be “debt slaves”
“But we’re rapidly getting to a point in this society where the ambitions people have for their kids are becoming economic casualties. That’s a desperate and angry society, when your only choices are decades, perhaps a lifetime of debt peonage — or to give up your dreams entirely…”
Legalization Foes Come Out Swinging Against Marijuana
Project SAM (Smart About Marijuana), the recently formed brainchild of former Congressman-with-addiction-issues Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and former Office of National Drug Control Policy staffer Kevin Sabet, last week authored a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder calling on him to stand firm against marijuana legalization.
Tension creates ‘anti-honeymoon’ for Corbett, Kane
Corbett, 63, a Republican who faces potential re-election challenges in both the primary and general elections next year, is eager to convince voters he is an effective leader worthy of a second term. Kane, 17 years his junior, is equally determined to prove that she is an independent prosecutor who will fairly apply state laws…
Hundreds sue Ky. hospital over heart procedures
So he saw a specialist in Lexington, who told him some disturbing news: An artery treated just months earlier was barely blocked, and there had been no need for Dr. Sandesh “Sam” Patil to enlarge it with a balloon angioplasty, then prop it open with a stent.