From USA TODAY/ AP: Lawmakers on Friday sent Gov. Jerry Brown a compromise bill that delays California’s effort to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect the state’s sales taxes while retailers lobby Congress for national rules governing online sales taxes.
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Paul Krugman: 50 Percent Chance Global Economy Will Enter Recession
From the HUFF POST / BLOOMBERG: Even though Obama’s jobs plan is “bolder and better” than Paul Krugman expected, the Nobel-Prize winning economist still told Bloomberg Television on Friday that it might not be enough to stave off global recession.
South Africa Discovery Offers Evolution ‘Game-Changer’
From the HUFFPOST: Two million-year-old bones belonging to a creature with both apelike and human traits provide the clearest evidence of evolution’s first major step toward modern humans – findings some are calling a potential game-changer.
An analysis of the bones found in South Africa suggests Australopithecus sediba is the most likely candidate to be the ancestor of humans, said lead researcher Lee R. Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Joe Paterno Must Retire
From the DAILY BEAST: “He was once a great football coach, but now he’s hurting the Penn State program—and injuring himself. Buzz Bissinger on the blindness of great men grown old.”
Shelters swell as Susquehanna River nears its crest
From the PATRIOT-NEWS: ….Officials in Harrisburg said they evacuated 6,000 to 10,000 residents from low-lying areas as of Thursday night. Residents of hard-hit Middletown, Derry Township and New Cumberland also streamed to eight other shelters in the midstate Thursday.
Panelists, GOP rivals target Perry from outset of debate
From USA TODAY: Moderators and candidates gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library made up for lost time, delving into Perry’s “Texas Miracle,” record on the death penalty and skepticism about climate change.
Sen. Bernie Sanders spells out his jobs plan
WASHINGTON – September 7 – As President Barack Obama prepares for a Thursday address on jobs to a joint session of Congress, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called today for putting Americans back to work through a series of bold measures that include rebuilding the country’s crumbling infrastructure.
Frenchman ordered to pay wife damages for lack of sex
From THE TELEGRAPH: A Frenchman has been ordered to pay his ex-wife 8,500 Euros in damages for failing to have enough sex with her during their marriage. The 51-year-old man was fined under article 215 of France’s civil code, which states married couples must agree to a “shared communal life”.
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
Concerning the “Global Policy Forum” to be held at Millersville University on Sept. 15 – 16, Professor Melvin Allen says:
“Students often see college as a ticket to economic and social mobility,” he said, “but fail to recognize the importance of their college experience as preparation for leadership in government or business.
“Why shouldn’t people in public colleges be preparing themselves for leadership in the same way as students in historical colleges for elite students? After all, they are much closer to and understand the challenges facing average citizens.”
Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson lacks the skills to lead the city, former staffers say
From the HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS: Delusional. Combative. Unwilling to accept counsel and advice. Traits most people wouldn’t want in a leader, especially the leader of a capital city in crisis.
But if there are many reasons Harrisburg is teetering on the brink of default — and threatened with a state takeover — none looms larger than those descriptions of Mayor Linda Thompson…
More restaurants are targeting customers who use food stamps
From USA TODAY: The number of businesses approved to accept food stamps grew by a third from 2005 to 2010, U.S. Department of Agriculture records show, as vendors from convenience and dollar discount stores to gas stations and pharmacies increasingly joined the growing entitlement program.
Long after these projects have failed and have been demolished, the debt lives on
What do projects as diverse as the Lancaster Convention Center, the Harrisburg Incinerator, and New Jersey’s Giants Stadium have in common? These projects have encumbered hundreds of millions in bond debt and have left the public holding the bag.
While Lancaster now tries to weigh the anchor tightened around its fiscal neck by the growing Convention Center debt, it would be good for citizens of the Red Rose City to consider the serious plight now face by its neighbors in Harrisburg.
Congressmen Skip Out On Town Halls After Facing Voter Opposition
From the HUFFPOST: Too much yelling, not enough listening. Facing organized, often raucous confrontations at political events, some members of Congress this summer abandoned the long-time tradition of open meetings with the folks back home.
Apparently the Chinese have no doubts over global warming
A paragraph in a Financial Times article titled “Iceland’s president welcomes Chinese interest” about the Chinese purchase of a huge swath of barren land caught our eye: “Some Icelandic politicians and business leaders are concerned the project could be a cover for China’s strategic interest in the country as global warming opens up the nearby Arctic to oil exploration and shipping.”