Intelligencer Journal New Era article headed “Lancaster County Convention Center funding urged” and subheaded “New taxes possible” opens: “A dozen years ago, when proponents of a Lancaster County convention center were proposing building a meeting center, county business leaders would annually drive to Hershey for the Chamber of Commerce dinner.
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Implications to 70 mph speed limit are numerous
From the CHAMBERSBURG PUBLIC OPINOIN Editorial: When it comes to speed limits on high-speed highways and interstates, let’s get one thing out of the way up front: Pretty much everyone pegs their dial about 5 mph beyond whatever the legal limit happens to be.
LCCCA chickens come home to roost
in “Center of attention,” Associated Editor Gil Smart of the Sunday News reports: “Was at the convention center consultant presser this morning, and came away with a different take than what we’re reporting here.
Thought everyone’s favourite furniture chain was run by liberal Swedes? Think again… the Ikea sofa made by political prisoners in Stasi camps
From the DAILY MAIL: The guards came for the prisoners every morning. Herded past a high-voltage fence, the men were taken down into a giant underground factory, where they were forced to work three shifts a day, cutting boards to size, making kitchen utensils and assembling cheap furniture.
Harrisburg Incinerator Forensic Report deal with last desperate attempt – Part Six of the Watershed Series
The Harrisburg Authority’s forensic audit of its incinerator, by design, deals only with the last desperate attempts to pull a broken vehicle from the mud. It does not do much to explain how and why the vehicle veered off the road in the first place.
Greek governing parties ‘lose majority’ at polls
From BBC: … With almost all votes counted, centre-right New Democracy is leading with 18.9%, down from 33.5% in 2009. New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras said he would form a national salvation government to keep the country in the euro.
LETTER: Are PSP and LNP talking?
These articles and editorials published in the Lancaster Newspapers make it appear to be more and more likely that LNP truly does not know what their “partner” in the Penn Square Partners has really been up to.
Don’t Take Away My Oxycodone!
Econamici: It feels like a large splinter jammed under my left thumbnail. From my thumb and forefinger, the skin burns in a strip up to my elbow. Recent shoulder surgery has left nerve damage, not uncommon.
22 participants tested for HIV in April, but not in Lancaster
EDITOR: The following is a report from a syringe exchange in a Pennsylvania city comperable to Lancaster. These essential and successful efforts to reduce the use of drugs andto prevent the spread of venereal diseases and HIV /AIDS are not taking place in Lancaster due to the unwillingness of Lancaster General Health…
Was justice served by so harsh a sentence?
According to an article “Man who rejected plea deal faces up to 15 years in prison” published in the Intelligencer Journal New Era: “Looking back, Meredith Penn would have been wise to take the plea deal, his attorney said Friday.
Harrisburg Incinerator Forensic audit has essential two audiences – Part Five of Watershed series
The “The Harrisburg Authority Resource Recovery Facility Forensic Investigation Report” audit by necessity is a difficult document to read and understand. Bonds transactions by their very nature are complicated financial instruments.
Three journalists slain in Mexico’s Veracruz
From ALJAZEERA: Three men who worked as photojournalists have been found slain and dumped in plastic bags by a canal in the eastern Mexico state of Veracruz, less than a week after the killing in the same state of a reporter for a newsmagazine, officials said.
Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses
From the NEW YORK TIMES: … Harvard’s involvement follows M.I.T.’s announcement in December that it was starting an open online learning project, MITx. Its first course, Circuits and Electronics, began in March, enrolling about 120,000 students, some 10,000 of whom made it through the recent midterm exam.
Harrisburg Incinerator Forensic Audit report indicates bonding industry and public officials kept the ‘party’ going- Part Four of the Watershed Series
A 130-page forensic audit report released in January 2012 by the Harrisburg Authority was meant to shed light on more than $300 million in debt incurred by the Authority on its ill-fated incinerator from the 1990s to the present.