From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: …Senate members applauded two motions Tuesday containing withering criticism of the public condemnations Penn State received this summer from former FBI Director Louis Freeh and NCAA President Mark Emmert.

Under the new company, The Patriot-News will change its print schedule to three days a week beginning in January 2013. At the same time, the organization will intensify its online and digital news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

…The Martin Plan did not require money or lawyers, just some effort and a desire to share the burden of this disaster that does little or nothing to the group currently saddled with bulk of the funding. This LCCCA may be better but their silence on PSP, what are they afraid of at this point, and their utter failure to find innovative potential solutions confirms them as PSP’s puppet. By the way, the mere $35K in cuts that Martin seeks from them is a pittance.

Voters who lack the documents necessary for a Pennsylvania nondriver’s ID card will now be able to obtain a free Department of State voter identification card at Department of Transportation driver’s license centers…

…When it comes to Pennsylvania politics and personalities, many of those voters voiced deep disapproval of Corbett and concern over the direction in which the state is headed. Coloring their perspective: the governor’s handling of the Sandusky investigation when he was state attorney general…

PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: … Required by a 2007 state law to provide billions of dollars for statewide road and bridge repairs and transit operations, the turnpike is spending more money each year than it makes, despite toll increases that have doubled the cost to travel the turnpike over the last 10 years.

To meet the financial demands created by the law, Act 44, turnpike officials have borrowed aggressively, leaving the agency deeper in debt each year.

A front page Sunday News article “Back to square one” is a gratifying summary of the past and current situation concerning downtown Lancaster’s greatest embarrassment, a situation that has been mishandled by City officials for at least five years.

What stands out is the misdirection and at times ignorance expressed by City officials.

EDITOR: The initial two-dozen of an ongoing string of comments appeared on a Penn State message board. We have redacted the names of the senders.

COMMENT ONE: I cannot confirm this in any way.. But my dad told me today that one of his co-workers is close friends to one of the board members. (I won’t say who) But this board member told this guy that Tom Corbett has threatened to come down hard on the business’ run by the individual trustees (Merck, US Steel, North Penn Pipe and Supply etc.) if the trustees do not ratify the sanctions.

Randy Patterson, Director, Economic Development & Neighborhood Revitalization for the City of Lancaster, says he has spent considerable effort over the past five years seeking to find a use for the long vacant former Bulova building.

From TIME USA: Spanier told The New Yorker magazine he was stunned by Freeh’s allegation. “There’s no logic to it,” Spanier said. “Why on earth would anybody cover up for a known child predator? Adverse publicity? For heaven’s sake! Every day I had to make some decision that got adverse publicity.”