A court clerk said Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson will take up the case Tuesday to comply with a Supreme Court-ordered review of whether registered voters are able to get the state-issued photo IDs they need.

From the WASHINGTON POST: …A huge, decades-long study involving more than 33,000 Americans has yielded the first clear proof that drinking sugary beverages interacts with genes that affect weight, amplifying a person’s risk of obesity beyond what it would be from heredity alone…

The steepest declines were for white women without a high school diploma, who lost five years of life between 1990 and 2008, said S. Jay Olshansky, a public health professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the lead investigator on the study, published last month in Health Affairs. By 2008, life expectancy for black women without a high school diploma had surpassed that of white women of the same education level, the study found.

Given the new accusations of child prostitution, conviction of former coach Jerry Sandusky on 45 charges related to pedophilia, cascading accusations that he was prostituting boys, and the $647,000 contributed to the Tom Corbett campaign for governor by trustees of Sandusky’s Second Mile Foundation, it is timely to re-visit the January article by Newslanc reporter Bill Keisling:

Our thoughts turn to the Lancaster Newspapers, the precipitous recent retirement of its president, the appointment of the husband of one of the Steinman family to be interim CEO despite no background in the newspaper industry…

At one point, protesters interrupted the program for seven minutes. Several groups unfurled banners and chanted against expanding the state prison system: “Fund education, not incarceration.” There were shouts against Corbett’s support of Marcellus Shale drilling, his cuts in welfare, his funding of education, and his signing of a death warrant for Terrance Williams, who is to be executed Oct. 3…

According to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, total employment in the newspaper publishing industry has plunged from 414,000 in 2001 to 246,020 in 2011, equaling a 40.6% drop in 10 years. The 2011 figure is down 5% from 258,950 in 2010 and 20.4% from 309,000 in 2009.

From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Less than a week after hearing oral arguments in the challenge to the state’s voter ID law, the state Supreme Court has issued a ruling that still leaves the law’s fate in limbo. By a 4-2 decision, the court ordered the Commonwealth Court to take another look at the case to determine if the alternative forms of identification that the state has made available comply with the law’s requirement of “liberal access.”

Headline “Lancaster Newspapers charting new direction” and “…the company named Ernest Schreiber as executive editor, overseeing its news-gathering operation seven days a week.” Forward to the past!

Most famously, in every gubernatorial election for the past 75 years, Pennsylvanians have elected a governor from the party opposite of that holding the presidency. For example, in 2008, Republican Tom Corbett was elected governor while Democratic President Barack Obama held the White House.

In one clip, Mr Romney says: “There are 47 per cent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what . . . who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they are entitled to healthcare, to food, to housing, to you-name-it . . . . These are people who pay no income tax.”

Apparently officials, including those from the City, do appreciate the need to redevelop Lancaster Square East and the proposed legislation would facilitate the acquisition and sale to developers of the area occupied by the Brunswick Hotel, the Brunswick Annex, and the former Hess Department Store / Bulova Building.

To fulfill an essential role in the community, the services to be provided by a reconstituted Urban League need to be comprehensive… harm reduction, job placement, assistance for pregnant teenagers in cooperation with the School District of Lancaster, rudimentary education.