HUFFINGTON POST / AP: In a bold challenge to the NCAA’s powers, Pennsylvania’s governor claimed in a lawsuit Wednesday that college sports’ governing body overstepped its authority and “piled on” when it penalized Penn State over the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal.
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There’s no greater threat to America’s children than climate change
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Op-Ed: This month, two media firestorms terrified American parents with apocalyptic visions of what the future might hold for their kindergarteners. In one, ammunition designed to tear apart bone and tissue snuffed out the lives of twenty children and six adults in an elementary school in Connecticut…
AP study on college football players should leave no illusion about steroids
But it’s clear from the AP’s work that college football players are pretty much free to use steroids without fear of discovery or penalty. That’s the main takeaway, and the widespread shrug it elicited could be indicative of a general fatigue when it comes to the issue. Or it could be this: People who care about sports have a strange, conflicted relationship with the issue of performance-enhancing drugs.
LETTER: Convention Center far too grandiose and expensive for its market
It should be no surprise to anyone that the downtown Lancaster convention center is having financial difficulties. The “integrated facility” is far too grandiose and expensive for its location, and the agreements which so tightly bind it to its “private partners” divert far too many taxpayer dollars to generate private profit.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
“The convention center had a good month in November and more weddings and special events have been booked for 2013. But the uncertainty surrounding the bond debt is depressing sales efforts. It’s time for local officials to agree on a plan and negotiate with bankers to restructure the debt.
A Tepid Fiscal Agreement
The higher income threshold isn’t the only price the White House wound up paying. The estate tax on the nation’s biggest inheritances is going up slightly but not nearly enough (estates of more than $5 million would be taxed at 40 percent, up from the current 35 percent) in a big and unnecessary giveaway to the very richest families.
COLUMN: Signing bonuses for drilling rights arrive in west central Pennsylvania – Part Two
Facts are difficult to come by. The drillers are large corporations with legions of lawyers and communication specialists. Information is released only when the drillers deem it necessary to advance their interests. The media in West Central PA asks no questions.
Jesus was right about the poor but we could do better for the destitute
We recently tore down the former Host Resort and later Days Inn on Keller Avenue, across the tracks from the Amtrak Station. It would have made an economical and excellent facility for housing the temporarily homeless and as a ‘soup kitchen’ serving simple but nourishing breakfast and dinners at inexpensive prices.
Russian Duma vs.Vladimir Posner for confusion parliament with fools
On December 28th Vladimir Putin signed a bill that bans the adoption of Russian children by American citizens. He did it after the bill was approved by both the lower chamber of Russian Parliament, the Duma, and the upper chamber, the Federation Council.
The Sandusky trial transcripts Part 2
This story is like a reverse Rashomon, the Kurosawa crime drama where everyone is interviewed and tells a different story. Here the repetition is a powerful indictment of Corbett and the investigators on this case. It’s not as if Sandusky is going to a foreign city to victimize each boy in a different fashion, making it difficult or impossible to investigate: Bangkok, in a taxi. San Francisco in a shower room, etc.
Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls will increase again on Jan. 6
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE When the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s fifth consecutive annual toll increase takes effect Jan. 6, drivers who use cash will be paying about 70 percent more than they did five years ago.
Friedrich von Hayek, micro- economist, political philosopher, conservative construct – Part One
“The man who shot Liberty Valance” is the heading to a chapter describing the circumstances whereby the London School of Economics in 1931 awarded a professorship to a young Austrian economist to confront the evolving federal deficit spending recommendations for England of the popular and highly influential John Maynard Keynes.
Legal pot unlikely in Pennsylvania anytime soon
Both Martin and Morganelli said they’re more open to the use of pot for medical purposes. In the 20 states that have legalized medical marijuana, it can be prescribed to treat pain, nausea, glaucoma and a number of other maladies…
LETTER: Self serving LNP blames rotten CC results on financial uncertainty
Bernie also reminds us of the CC’s own looming fiscal cliff and allows center GM Mark Moosic to pass the buck on the dismal performance of the center by blaming the financial uncertainty on his rotten results. He wants to “get past this” but his de facto employer, Penn Square Partners [in which the Lancaster Newspapers is an equal partner], does not want to do anything that involves putting in any more of their own money, even though they, along with the City, are the only beneficiaries of the project.