From THE SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE: After Penn State’s board of trustees fired university President Graham Spanier and football coach Joe Paterno, Gov. Tom Corbett belatedly rode his white charger over Mount Nittany and declared: “When it comes to the safety of children, there can be no margin for error, no hesitancy to act.”
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A call for a Constitutional Convention
Were the vast majority of the informed population to agree that there was a single problem that needed to be addressed, it would be how failure to reign in campaign contributions has made our government the lap dog of special interests rather than the will of the people.
LETTER: Redistribution of wealth alone would not offset global economic forces
Well said, indeed! I agree with the spirit of everything you are saying. However, I don’t understand how picketing on Wall Street addresses the issues of government tax policy, government spending policy or government election finance reform, not to mention all the other aspects of reform needed for a more socially just and equitable society.
A lesson for a Harvard Business School alumnus
The following is the response to Harvard Business School alumnus posting in repsonse to Occupy Wall Street demonstrations forwarded by a NewsLanc reader: “Ideology cannot fix labor and customer markets…
York DA asks FBI to investigate Corbett administration security contractor with ties to pedophile sex ring
District Attorney Tom Kearney, of York County, PA, has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate longstanding allegations that Corbett Administration security provider Russell Wantz, Jr. has ongoing close ties to a prostitution and pedophile ring centered in and around the York County courthouse…
LGH prevents public comment at open annual meeting
The annual Lancaster General Health Board of Trustees meeting took place at the Stager Auditorium at 5 pm on Wednesday. The format was changed from last year and it went as follows: A one hour and fifteen minute agenda was presented, then the meeting adjourned for one hour, after which there were three additional presentations.
LETTER: Corbett and police covered up Pedophile ring patrons
Why do you suppose there has been NO mention of SANDUSKY’s LAPTOP or DESKTOP? Same reason there was NO mention (Nationally) of Gricar’s Murder….
Faults NewsLanc for ignoring Crossings development
I read your special edition on the Convention Center and especially noticed the role played by High Construction. You did a great job on that report. But what really puzzles me is why you aren’t equally upset by what High is doing now to ram their Crossings development through the MT Commissioners before the end of this year.
Gingrich Said to Be Paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac
Newt Gingrich made between $1.6 million and $1.8 million in consulting fees from two contracts with mortgage company Freddie Mac, according to two people familiar with the arrangement.
Penn State sex abuse scandal (cover up)
From SPORTING NEWS: A former Penn State graduate assistant cited by a grand jury report as claiming he saw an ex-assistant football coach sexually abusing a young boy in a campus locker room shower says in an email he made sure the act was stopped and then went to police — contradicting what the report says.
Inside the Jerry Sandusky investigation – why did it take so long?
From the PITTSBURGH PATRIOT-NEWS: There were earlier chances to bring him to the attention of law enforcement. Clues seem to have been ignored in 1995 and 1999; an alleged victim came forward in 1998; and adults allegedly witnessed sexual assaults by Sandusky in 2000 and 2002…
LETTER: Fact or fiction about Penn State scandal?
Here is the reason for the Penn State cover up, as told to me by my cousin”Vinny” from Philadelphia. As Gricar started his investigation of Sandusky he found out about Sandusky and his ties to the mob family, Bonomi, in Phily. Sandusky was throwing point spreads for the mob.
LETTER: Individuals more important that venerated institutions
Yes, and maybe add, . .. a son who was 10 years old. Even so, it just makes me more sad than angry, as it does for most of the people I have heard from. Sad for the victims certainly, but all the students, fans and alumni. Even Joe Paterno and all the others may really be “good guys” who were simply terrified (in denial) of a scandal that would blemish the great image of Penn State…
LETTER: NewsLanc coverage of Penn State scandal “schizophrenic”
Gricar didn’t bring charges in 1998 because there probably wasn’t enough evidence to do so. It’s not reasonable to think that those post-1998 accounts reached Gricar or Corbett. They didn’t escape the mountains of State College and that was the problem!