… the university president, who holds multiple and conflicting positions. He is president of the university, and thus an employee, but he also is an officer and a voting member on the board that employs him. That is, he is the boss of himself.

NEWSMAX: Banning gun-free zones and allowing teachers to carry concealed weapons could help eliminate mass shootings at schools, John R. Lott, one of the nation’s leading gun experts, tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview Saturday.

Lott, an author and college professor, told Newsmax that gun-free zones become “a magnet” for deranged killers who hope to burn their names into the history books by running up a big body count.

After taking BJ’s private, LG and CVC ordered the company to pay them a $643 million dividend — equal to the entire cash outlay they’d made in the purchase. (They’d borrowed the balance). Of course, BJ’s didn’t actually have $643 million, so to pay their dividend, the new owners had BJ’s take out a loan.

“It does not make sense from a prioritization point of view for us to focus on recreational drug users in a state that has already said that under state law that’s legal,” he told ABC News in part of an interview released on Friday.

First let us compliment the Lancaster Newspapers for publishing a series of three informative articles concerning the compensation of Lancaster General Health’s executives. It takes journalistic courage to take on the establishment in control of Lancaster largest employer and the custodian of our lives.

The concerns raised about the charter schools in the GM network have related to questionable admissions practices; the channeling of school funds to close associates; abuse of contractors; participation in biased, GM-created competitions; incidents of bribing; using the schools to generate political connections; science fair projects being done by teachers; unfair hiring and termination practices; and more.

The PUC continued its roll last week by approving a 4.3 percent rate increase for PPL Electric Utilities. It also allowed PPL to craft the award so that consumers will have to pay most of the increase regardless of whether they actually use electricity. The monthly charge for basic services, including meter reading that is done mostly by computer, will jump by more than 61 percent, from $8.75 to $14.09. That charge is the price for being connected to the system rather than for actual power usage, so even a Herculean effort at power conservation would not help consumers save money.

NEWSMAX: Eleven Republican governors, including Florida’s Rick Scott, Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal and Arizona’s Jan Brewer want to meet with President Barack Obama to discuss the federal health overhaul, including ways to make expanding the Medicaid rolls and setting up online health exchanges more affordable for states with tight budgets.

The Commissioners could save another half a million if they found the courage to defund the bloated and inefficient Lancaster Library System and turned the money over to the individual libraries on a ratio based upon public use…. The System would neither be missed nor lamented. …

From USA TODAY: Americans are living longer, with fewer deaths from heart disease and cancer, but more chronic illnesses, an annual snapshot of the USA’s health shows. The 2012 America’s Health Rankings highlight troubling levels of obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and sedentary behavior.