He wants police officers nationwide to be trained to use naloxone, a nasal spray or injection that can almost instantly resuscitate people who overdose on opiates; better education for prescribers of painkillers and other drugs so that they can recognize signs of abuse or addiction; and the distributionof clean syringes for intravenous drug users to stem the spread of infectious diseases like H.I.V. and hepatitis C.

Anyone who reads “A City Transformed; Redevelopment, Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1940 – 1980” by David Schuyler will be impressed with the openness of governing bodies to third party expertise and public debate.

I wonder what the advertising income comparison would be between the two formats?

Kane’s lawyers said in Thursday’s court filing that Carpenter’s order last year had expired before Barker’s April 8 firing, and they reiterated Kane’s contention that Barker’s firing had nothing to do with his grand jury testimony in the investigation. Furthermore, they wrote, Kane had no motive to retaliate against Barker because he had helped her office challenge Carpenter’s protective order and, in internal correspondence, had deemed it to be “unwarranted and unlawful.”

Nowhere is that gap wider than in Pennsylvania, according to federal data. School districts with the highest poverty rates here receive one-third fewer state and local tax dollars, per pupil, than the most affluent districts.

The shake-up couldn’t come soon enough for the Senate Education Committee, whose members took turns Tuesday heaping praise on the governor’s cabinet nominee, Pedro Rivera, and the cultural transformation he has developed for PDE since taking over four months ago.

“…LG Health’s money will ‘unequivocally’ remain in Lancaster under the auspices of the local board. Additionally, he said, “All issues regarding our medical staff, our investment and our properties remain under local control.”

Under normal circumstances, LNP editors would not be faulted for reproducing an article from the Inquirer. But by now LNP should be aware of the war by the Inquirer on Kane and should be more cautious about what it publishes.

They believe that image – both for Paterno and Penn State as a whole – was unfairly damaged by former FBI Director Louis Freeh’s 2011-12 examination of circumstances surrounding the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal…

Opinion polls consistently show stronger support for legalization in the West and the Northeast than in the Midwest and the South.