PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Kathleen Kane holds a 20-point lead in her bid to become the first woman and first Democrat to be elected Pennsylvania’s attorney general, according to the latest Inquirer Pennsylvania Poll.
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Russia treats opposition as foreign agents
A law that brands foreign-funded Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as “foreign agents” was passed by the Russian Parliament State Duma this summer. NGOs failing to abide by the law now are punishable by hefty fines or jail time.
Racial Attitudes Got Slightly Worse on Obama’s Watch
In all, 51 percent of Americans now express explicit anti-black attitudes, compared with 48 percent in a similar 2008 survey. When measured by an implicit racial attitudes test, the number of Americans with anti-black sentiments jumped to 56 percent, up from 49 percent during the last presidential election. In both tests, the share of Americans expressing pro-black attitudes fell.
“Argo,” “Seven Psychopaths,” and more on “The Master”
Already successful beyond industry expectations, “Argo” is more evidence that adults will fill theaters when something they relate to comes their way. Few in the business predicted that a movie with an inexplicable title, that recounted a true life rescue from forty years ago…
Convention Center 2013 budget forecasts $1,239,166 loss
The red ink for the Lancaster County Convention Center will continue to spill in 2013, according to the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority (LCCCA) budget, which was passed at the LCCCA’s regular board meeting on October 25th.
LCSWMA’s CEO: “No situation where Lancaster funds will be utilized…”
Since spring 2011, LCSWMA has endeavored to acquire the Harrisburg MERRF (Materials Energy Recycling Recovery Facility) in a very public, transparent manner. We submitted two initial proposals, in March and May of 2011, with wide distribution to Harrisburg and Lancaster officials; as well as posted the proposals on our website for public access.
President Obama releases transcript of Des Moines Register interview
“It will probably be messy. It won’t be pleasant. But I am absolutely confident that we can get what is the equivalent of the grand bargain that essentially I’ve been offering to the Republicans for a very long time, which is $2.50 worth of cuts for every dollar in spending [taxes], and work to reduce the costs of our health care programs.
Does the proposed LCSWMA purchase of plagued Harrisburg incinerator make sense?
If the venture is ill advised, the public will end up paying for the folly through much higher trash disposal rates. This transaction conceivably could be many time more costly to the local economy that the Convention Center white elephant.
Critics: Pa. inflating success of charter schools
Charter school supporters are championing the change, which this year led to about 59 percent of charters meeting the federal benchmark known as “adequate yearly progress.” The ratio for public schools overall was 50 percent. Without the change, only 37 percent of charters would have made the AYP benchmark.
Why Marijuana Prohibition is a War Crime
The Presidential debates remind me that Watergate was not the only disaster caused by Richard Nixon, not even the worst. Two others that were much worse were the bombings of Laos and Cambodia, which left behind thousands of bomblets that are still maiming children forty years later;
Unwanted incinerator suitor says Lancaster authority went afoul of state law
Cambridge Project Development Inc. contends that Lancaster’s bid breaks state law because the authority hasn’t conducted a public review of its offer. The Harrisburg Receiver’s office chose to solely negotiate the sale of the incinerator with the Lancaster authority following a formal bid process in July.
Stop ads for voter ID law
From the SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE Editorial: …As if to further prove that disenfranchising some legitimate voters is the purpose of the law, the administration has continued with an array of advertising advising people that they need a valid photo ID to vote Nov. 6.
Review: Jerry Sandusky Victim 1’s book dives into politics of Sandusky investigation
From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: ….Gillum writes about conversations with Jonelle Eshbach, and how she kept promising that an arrest would come — first in March 2010, then in the summer of that year, and continuously until it finally happened in November 2011.
Capitolwire: Kane, Freed debate honesty, integrity.
Republican attorney general nominee David Freed says voters should pick him over Democrat Kathleen Kane because of his experience as a district attorney. But Kane kept the Cumberland County District Attorney on the defensive much of the night by saying the real issues are independence and integrity, and she comes out ahead in both measures.