“But residents of School Lane Hills and Barrcrest neighborhoods, near the site of the new rail yard, weren’t so enthused. They didn’t oppose relocation of the rail yard per se, but worried about the impact the new yard could have on their community.
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Why pay people for doing nothing?
The following is from “No Ordinary Time” by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Under [Harry] Hopkins resourceful leadership, the WPA [Works Project Administration] employed two million people a month. It built thousands of schools , libraries, parks, sidewalks and hospitals.
LETTER: Annual “I stand with Molly” day at Longs Park
Lets have a Molly Henderson Day next year on the anniversary of the Chester County court throwing out her case. Celebrate the whole day with a picnic and rally at Longs Park with 10,000 attendees, circulate petitions there for a new political party (The Freedom Party?) bring our own lunches/dinners, American flags, lawn chairs, noise makers, speakers (fire and brimstone guys and gals just for the fun of it), have music and dancing and announce the winner of a Molly Henderson song contest, pass out the words and sing it.
LETTER: “Run these guys out of town”
Needs to be a book; maybe even “fiction” to avoid frivolous lawsuits by private entities using public funds, like the LCCCA spending 7 million dollars in public money to advance the interests of the private PSP, while keeping the public in the dark through control of the media.
LETTER: Bio-fuels, not population, driving global demand for food
This is an amazing article about the current global demand for food. The author is Jayati Ghosh, a Professor of Economics and currently also Chairperson at the Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, School of Social Sciences, at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, in New Delhi, India.
NEW ERA
Editorial “A broken promise on health reform” states “President Obama’s promise to rein in health care costs as part of his health reform plan apparently has fallen by the way side. A 10-year forecast by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows total health spending growing annually by 5.8 percent under the president’s Affordable Care Act.
Final chapter in Convention Center Series: Betrayals of public trust
This is the fifty-first and last installment in a series concerning the Convention Center Project. Its purpose is to summarize the questionable, devious, sleights of hand, and, at times, outright mendacious if not fraudulent actions of some of the participants.
Cowboys, Aliens, and the real thing.
“Cowboys and Aliens,” outside of the last Harry Potter, is this summers’ most eagerly anticipated blockbuster. Judging from the casting, it looked like it was intended as much for adults as to the all important teenage demographic.
Csepel Garden Shelter in Budapest
The reflection is of the Watchdog viewing a commemorative plaque at the Csepel Garden Shelter in Budapest, Hungary. It houses as many as 130 homeless men and also serves 180 hot lunches per day for the poor and the homeless.
The shelter was a joint effort of the Hungarian Red Cross, the local district government, and the American House Foundation, founded and headed by Richard Field, a graduate of McCaskey High School. The former workers hotel in an inner city industrial location was acquired and the conversion was completed earlier this year.
Please bring back Ernie Schreiber!
The Watchdog has gotten out his resume and is contemplating the future and, in part, it is due to the retirement of former New Era editor Ernie Schreiber. Upon return from a four day trip to Eastern Europe, the Watchdog eagerly perused recent New Era editorials for grist for his own column.
Pa., N.J. officials question costs of tough sentencing
From the INQUIRER: As states across the country struggle with anemic revenue, officials are taking a harder look at one subset of government that eats huge chunks of taxpayer money: prisons. Corrections officials on both sides of the Delaware say the “get tough on crime” philosophy that has governed prison operations since the early 1980s must change. It’s expensive and, in many cases, it’s not working.
NAACP passes historic resolution calling for end to war on drugs
Today the NAACP passed a historic resolution calling for an end to the war on drugs. The resolution was voted on by a majority of delegates at the 102nd NAACP Annual Convention in Los Angeles, CA. The overall message of the resolution is captured by its title…
Unsettling Wariness in Norway, Where Police Are Rarely Armed
From the HERALD TRIBUNE: When a man dressed in a police uniform began slaughtering young people at a Norwegian summer camp last week, one of the first to be killed was a real police officer named Trond Berntsen, who for years had worked in security at the camp.
Subsidy cuts fill jobless rolls with former school employees
From the PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW: Pennsylvania public school employees are hitting the unemployment line in unprecedented numbers this summer. Nearly 4,000 teachers and about 1,700 school support workers across Pennsylvania received furloughs recently in the wake of a $900 million reduction in state and federal school subsidies…