From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: A Democratic-led effort to force debate on whether to have federal authorities look into how the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse investigation was handled tied up the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, causing the Republican speaker to abruptly end the day’s session.
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Capitolwire: Lawyers press commonwealth to change ‘misleading’ Voter ID ad campaign.
HARRISBURG (Oct. 2) – After mounting a successful challenge to postpone the photo identification requirement for this election, opponents of the law are targeting the state’s ad campaign next. The lawyers who persuaded a Commonwealth Court judge to postpone the state’s Voter ID law aren’t planning to appeal for a total injunction of the law, but say the state must stop what they now consider “misleading” ads.
LETTER: Fear of Tom Corbett?
I’ve noticed that PA has a big problem with abuse of power in its leaders. From the schoolyard monitor to the borough cop, and on up the chain. The average, simple-minded PA citizen can’t seem to keep their ego in check when given a little power. And that’s what we have in “Governor” Corbett…
A Flagrant Conflict of Interest
Chief Justice Ronald Castille has a classic and flagrant conflict of interest: he is passing judgment on a prosecution that he approved and oversaw, and on a trial judge’s ruling that strongly censured that prosecution. He was the Philadelphia district attorney in 1986 and accountable for the serious misconduct that led to Mr. Williams’ death sentence.
Pa. court rules voters can cast regular ballots without ID
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: A Commonwealth Court judge issued an injunction today blocking Pennsylvania’s controversial new voter ID law from taking full effect before the presidential election, clearing the way for voters without government-issued identification to cast regular ballots on Nov. 6.
Pennsylvania survey shows huge education cuts
From the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: 18,800 positions eliminated over 2 years as a result of tight funding… More than $900 million in public school funding was reduced in 2011-12, largely as a result of the end of the federal economic stimulus.
Peanut butter recall includes major retailers
In addition to Trader Joe’s, the recall includes nut products sold at Whole Foods Market, Target, Fresh & Easy, Giant Food, Harry and David, Stop & Shop Supermarket Company and several other stores. Some of the stores used Sunland ingredients in items they prepared and packaged themselves…
Harrisburg Patriot-News, PennLive employee changes announced to staff as companies prepare for transition
From HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Company leaders were meeting face to face with Patriot-News and PennLive employees about whether they will be offered positions with one of the new companies that will be launching at the first of the year, the Pennsylvania Media Group and Advance Central Services Pennsylvania. The goal was to talk to every employee by the end of Monday…
New Era editors abandon capitalism!
In article “Supt. Rivera’s big pay day” is subheaded “ [Pedro] Rivera recently signed a five-year contract extension worth more than $200,000 annually”.
Investors, Fund Managers Fear Obama Victory
As President Barack Obama widened his lead over Mitt Romney in polls this month, traders at hedge funds and investment firms began shooting emails to clients with a similar theme: It’s time to start preparing for an Obama victory.
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
Towards the end of this week’s column titled, First question on the middle class, Associate Editor Gil Smart observes:
“For most of U.S. history, most people had a slow and steady wind at their back, a combination of economic forces that didn’t make life easy but gave many of us little pushes forward that allowed us to earn a bit more every year. … That wind seems to be dying for a lot of Americans. What the country will be like without it is not quite clear. ‘It’s hard to imagine what set of circumstances would reverse recent trends and bring large numbers of jobs for unskilled laborers back to the U.S.’ ”
An Unfettered Press: Libel Law in the United States
That all changed in 1964 when the Supreme Court issued a ruling that revolutionized libel law in the United States. The famous decision in New York Times Co. v. Sullivan once and for all created a national rule that squared more fully with the free press guarantees of the First Amendment.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA
Article “Court upholds dismissal of lawsuit filed against Lancaster Newspapers” states: “Lancaster Newspapers is gratified that the three-judge Superior Court panel that heard the appeal determined, like the Common Pleas Court judge below…
Black Dolphin
In 1997, Russia replaced the death penalty with life imprisonment. There are more than 3500 people sentenced to life imprisonment today. The majority of Russians favours a return of the death penalty.