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LNP editors call for Kathleen Kane’s resignation: A rush to judgment
Finally and most bizarre “She accused Corbett of having slowed the Jerry Sandusky prosecution for political purposes, but an investigation found no evidence to support her charge.” The promise to investigate, for which there was ample supportive indications, was made on the campaign trail, not when attorney general. This she did. An AG looks for sufficient evidence to indict, not whether or not what took place was likely. How silly can the editors get?
LGH to buck the trend by adding tower of new hospital rooms
By adding a potential of 140 new rooms, the hospital flies in the face of the thrust of the Affordable Care Act and predictions of experts that the demand for beds will in general diminish by 20% over the next five years.
COLUMN: Obama shares blame for Baltimore
WE.CONNECT.DOTS: That racism has not recessed as much as we believe will be part of Barack Obama’s legacy as the 44th President. He deserves the charge because he expended too much of his presidency convincing White America he was one of them while skirting the issues of Black America.
Our Budapest Beacon website rated #2 for Eastern Europe
One thing the site will never sacrifices is credible reporting. However. perhaps the most surprising fact is that the website is published out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
How times change: LNP criticizes partial gagging of public at township meeting
We don’t want to tar the current management of LNP with the sins of their predecessors (although ownership should not be excused), but refusing to answer quesetions was the technique used by Ted Darcus, then Chair of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority and never questioned by LNP, to silence critics of the proposed project.
“Ex Machina” and “While We’re Young:” a mechanical woman and a mechanical plot
Robots have always been prominent in filmed science fiction; from Maria in Fritz Lang’s 1926 silent, “Metropolis,” to Robbie, (the Robot) in “Forbidden Planet” to Hal in Kubrick’s “2001, A Space Odyssey” to the gun slinging robot in Michael Crichton’s “Westworld.” And now, as artificial intelligence expands to include robots with the ability to outwit their human creators, comes the inspired and witty “Ex Machina.”
Prosecutor accuses AG Kane’s chief of staff of sexually harassing her
Michele Kluk, 34, a Harrisburg-based prosecutor, said the incident occurred in February 2014 in a Hazleton restaurant/bar. She accused Jonathan Duecker of reaching his hand up the back of her blouse and later putting his hand on her thigh…
The Most Honest 15 Minutes Of Obama’s Presidency
He went on, “And we’ll go through the same cycles of periodic conflicts between the police and communities and the occasional riots in the streets. And everybody will feign concern until it goes away and then we go about our business as usual.”…
Should Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane resign? Or is Kane a butterfly on the torture wheel?
The potential upside is, should Kane tough it out and win, we have an attorney general who deeply understands just how inherently unfair and bad our politicized court system has become, and how it needs to be changed to protect all Pennsylvanians.
Grand jury: PA Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s testimony about alleged leak ‘not an honest account’
Made public Monday, those findings are behind a December grand jury recommendation that Kane, the state’s top law enforcement officer, face perjury and other charges. The court document identifies her as the “principal” source of a leak to the Philadelphia Daily News…
National Guard Called Out in Baltimore
“Too many people have spent generations building up this city for it to be destroyed by thugs,” Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in announcing the 10 p.m.-to-5 a.m…
Judge releases grand jury presentment against PA AG Kathleen Kane
“The public has the right to have this information be made public,” Kane’s attorney, Gerald Shargel, told the judge.
Wolf scrapping controversial assets test for food stamps
Few people were disqualified, but all applicants and the state Department of Human Services were burdened by onerous verification paperwork…