As written, the law says voters who do not bring proper photo ID on Election Day can cast a provisional ballot. They would then have six days to bring in the required photo ID for their votes to count…

“On some of those, we look pretty bad and on others we’re golden; the best in the nation,” James says. “All of us publish newspaper ads that say we’re the best on one or another.” Safety in a hospital generally refers to avoiding harm caused by the doctor or facility, such as a result of infection or post-operative complications…

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, we’re often told, and proof of it could be found in Thursday’s Photo voter ID hearing in Commonwealth Court in Harrisburg. The state Republican Party — normally a group that rails against bureaucracy, red tape, and big government…

“You can’t get the whole story unless you start at the beginning,” she said. “So I don’t care if I have to go back 20 years, we’ll go back 20 years and then we’ll follow the facts from there on. And you know what? The truth always comes out. It just takes that person to be willing to dig deep and to find the truth and to just keep chasing the facts…

In fact, the problem is not Romney but the new Republican Party. Given the direction in which it has moved and the pressures from its most extreme — yet most powerful — elements, any nominee would face the same challenge: Can you be a serious candidate for the general election while not outraging the Republican base?

Dauphin County Judge Todd Hoover ruled against the motions by former vice president Gary Schultz and athletic director Tim Curley that would have thrown out the count of perjury against each man.

…Corbett certainly owed the RSLC committee a major political favor. The group dumped $480,000 into his 2004 campaign for state Attorney General with two weeks to go until the general election. A judge then ordered the RSLC to reveal where the money came from. The primary source, it turned out, was Audrey McClendon, chairman of Chesapeake Energy Co., now a major player in the Marcellus Shale natural gas drilling going on in Pennsylvania under Corbett’s watch…

From the NEW YORK TIME Opinion Page: …Lehigh Valley is a case study in the rapidly multiplying problems of the Republican Party, its successes in 2010 notwithstanding. From 1968 to 1988, Lehigh County was solidly Republican, voting for Richard Nixon over Hubert Humphrey 50-46 (with 4 percent for the segregationist George C. Wallace); for Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter, 53-36; and for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis, 56-43

The NCAA’s action has bewildered legal experts, compliance directors, and others who believe the association did not have the authority to institute such a far-reaching set of penalties, which also require the university to carry out dozens of recommendations to clean up its oversight of sports.

“Our pledge to community” is an exhibit to “Lancaster Newspapers charting new direction.” , an article appearing September 18 . It only took only four days for an egregious violation of their new standards to occur.

From the INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: A key difference between the economic agendas of President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney hinges on whether tax cuts should be granted to the wealthiest Americans.