From the SALON: For decades, the center of power in the Republican Party has been shifting southward, and the concentration of evangelical Christians within the party has been rising. So there’s some irony in the fact that as a series of crucial primaries in southern states approaches, the GOP race has, at least for now, become a two-man fight between a Mormon from Massachusetts and a Roman Catholic from Pennsylvania….
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Revisiting the Convention Center project roots
“My conversation with Rufus at the bank gave me reason to believe that he lacked confidence in the convention center project. I surmised that Fulton felt obliged to go along with major clients of the bank by taking a small partnership interest. “Jack, at the newspaper, explained that he had been immersed over the past year in directing other Steinman enterprises, and had left the convention center project in the hands of Dale High.
LETTER: Sunday News misrepresents ‘Crossings’ as “scaled back”
Why does Gil Smart keep repeating the same miss-information? In his front page story in today’s Sunday News (Feb.19), Crossings project hits legal bump, he writes: “The plan [Crossings II] is a scaled-down version of a larger project High initially proposed…”
LETTER:Gleiberman says Sunday News editorial “ridiculous”
Clearly the letter that I submitted to LNP on 2/13 was timely, based on the ridiculous editorial in today’s (2/18) paper: More Misdirection “I know I just run a hotel so you will have to explain this to me. What exactly would a breakdown of individual hotel tax returns, with their proprietary information, tell you?
Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes
From the WASHINGTON POST: …For most of us living with sidewalks and street lamps, death has become a rarely witnessed, foreign event. The most up-close death my urban-raised children have experienced is the occasional walleye being reeled toward doom on a family fishing trip or a neighborhood squirrel sentenced to death-by-Firestone.
SUNDAY NEWS
An editorial “Checking in: Before the decision can be made on the hotel room tax, the public needs to know what each hotel is paying, or not paying. That includes the downtown Marriott” opines: “…facts are at a premium in the convention center debate, which is why the Sunday News last week filed a request under the state Right to Know Law for more detailed information from the county treasurer’s office on hotel room tax revenues.
Corbett’s gas fee about to evaporate
From the SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE Editorial:..Gov. Tom Corbett, who effectively has been a subsidiary of the gas industry thus far in his tenure, resisted even the modest per-well fee to which he reluctantly agreed last week…
EDITORIAL: What Penn Square Partners can do to redress past errors and heal wounds
The imminent depriving of the Lancaster Tourist Bureau of its share of the Hotel Room Rental Sales Tax due to Convention Center financial short falls has re-opened old and deep wounds in the public psyche. Over a decade, the project morphed from some $40 million to over $185 million under the project management of a subsidiary of the High Group.
Six Decades of PA’s Governors, AGs, and Republicans: Part One
This Thanksgiving I arrived late for family dinner. It was dark by the time I got to my brother’s house, cars filled the street and driveway, and everyone had already gathered inside.
Ex-Penn State VP seeks dismissal of perjury charge
From USA TODAY: The attorney representing former Penn State University Senior Vice President Gary Schultz has asked a judge to dismiss a perjury charge related to the child sex abuse scandal involving former football assistant coach Jerry Sandusky. Schultz’s attorney says Pennsylvania prosecutors have not presented a necessary corroborating witness to prove that Schultz lied to a grand jury investigating the allegations against Sandusky.
LETTER: Convention Center wound could be healed given political will
I have been against this project myself for several reasons and the most significant, in the long run, was the use of raw political and media power to drive two good public servants from office who dared to even question this project. This was, and still is, the most dangerous corruption of our democratic process that I have ever witnessed on a local level.
Lancaster County Court decision sets back the Crossings project
A decision by Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas Judge Miller vacates the Manheim Township Board of Commissioners’ 2008 approval to fill in the flood plain as part of the Crossings at Conestoga Creek Planned Commercial Development. The Judge ruled the Board of Commissioners did not have the power to modify the provisions of the Flood Plain Ordinance. The matter has been remanded to the Board for further consideration.
Analysis: Corbett not afraid to exercise muscle on Penn State board
From the WILLIAMSPORT MORNING CALL: The governor, guaranteed a seat on Penn State’s board of trustees, is one of only a few governors in history to be active participant. A year into his term, Corbett already has attended two meetings and is an active participant in discussions, questioning university expenditures and policy.
LETTER:Public should not be hostage to unfair PSP agreements
Maybe what we need is a court injunction to ‘re-open’ those agreements and have them be FAIRLY written to better protect the taxpayers and the hotel/tourist industry. I wonder if the County Commissioners would have the intestinal fortitude required to see that this gets done.