An article “Drug treatment put at $80 million” relates: “A state audit shows that taxpayers shelled out nearly $50 million in 2009 to supply methadone to thousands of people on public assistance and more than $32 million to transport them to clinics…
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Chronic hunger to affect 1bn people
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: The number of chronically hungry people is approaching 1bn, the level last seen during the 2007-08 food crisis, in the clearest sign yet of the humanitarian impact of rising agricultural commodities prices in poor countries. Robert Zoellick, World Bank president, said on Tuesday that the rise in food prices had already pushed an additional 44m people into extreme poverty, which is closely associated with hunger.
Berks County should set its sight on No. 1 library option
From the READING EAGLE: …Task force members said Berks County’s best solution for its libraries would be a dedicated library tax and a consolidated system, but those were not recommended because libraries in smaller communities couldn’t be supported under that structure.
A voice of reason in the jungle
“How can voters be so ill informed? …[W]hat they’ve been hearing ever since Ronald Reagan is that their hard-earned dollars are going to waste, paying for vast armies of useless bureaucrats (payroll is only 5 percent of federal spending) and welfare queens driving Cadillacs. How can we expect voters to appreciate fiscal reality when politicians consistently misrepresent that reality?”
Senseless projects stealing money from education of kids
Approx. 4 years ago and I may have shared this with you, I mentored reading at Hand Middle School as a favor to the principal and took a few lady friends from my church with me, once a week. What an amazing experience as I thought I had seen and heard it all in my worldly carer and travels.
SUNDAY NEWS
The following excerpts are from a letter “Post McCaskey East: Stop criticizing, start conversing” to the editor from School District of Lancaster board member Charlie Crystal:
“Segregation is a loaded word, and its use by local media brought the noise of the national media to the doorstep of the School District of Lancaster…”
Unions once were powerful advocates for middle class
In “Winner-Take-All Politics”, the authors seek to explain the many factors that have contributed to the real incomes of the bottom 90% of the U. S. population having stayed the same or only slightly risen over the past three decades while earnings of the top 0.01% have soared from $4 million in 1979 to around $24 million in 2005.
“Person of the year” runs for school board
A local reporter recently asked Randolph (‘Randy’) Carney why he was running for the school board of the School District of Lancaster. His response follows:
Why am I running for School Board? Because I am a concerned citizen who cares very much about how our tax dollars are spent. Students are the highest priority of our schools; taxpayers are every bit as important.
Bias or just sloppy journalism?
Special to NewsLanc in reference to prominent Intelligencer Journal New Era article of February 10th: Lancaster County Justice Comparison:
One McCaskey ‘Star’
Three Manheim Township ‘Stars’
Is Obama just now becoming business friendly?
The unrelenting narrative from the corporate media – that Obama must mend fences with American business – is disconnected from the reality of Obama’s policies and appointments. It is inconsistent with the rise in the stock market, the record profits and the hordes of cash big business are sitting on.
An H.I.V. Strategy that provides safe injection facility
From the NEW YORK TIMES: VANCOUVER, British Columbia … At 12 tables, in front of 12 mirrors, a dozen people are fussing intently in raptures of self-absorption, like chorus line members applying makeup in a dressing room. But these people are drug addicts, injecting themselves with whatever they just bought on the street — under the eyes of a nurse here at Insite, the only “safe injection site” in North America…
Interview of Google administrator re-ignites demonstrations
I don’t know if you have seen the stories about the young Google executive who was imprisoned in Egypt for the last 12 days, blindfolded the whole time, who was released yesterday. It turns out he was the administrator of the Facebook page that many say was the source of the Egyptian revolt.
Looking back on 2010, and forward to the Oscars.
I was out of the country most of December, but as I left I did a quick inventory of the years’ noteworthy American theatrical films. It wasn’t much of a list; “The Social Network,” “The Kids Are Alright,” “Cyrus,” “Inception,” “Winter’s Bone,” and Clint Eastwood’s underappreciated, “Hereafter.” Just below that were several others, good enough to keep you out of trouble on a Saturday night; “The Town,” “Unstoppable,” “Easy A,” and, with some reservations, “I Love You Phillip Morris.” But not much else.
Child obesity linked to formula, early start on solids
From USA TODAY: …Formula-fed babies who begin solid foods too early — before they’re 4 months old — are six times as likely to become obese by age 3, compared with babies who start on solids later, according to a study of 847 in today’s Pediatrics. About 9% of children in the study were obese by age 3. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents delay introducing solid foods until ages 4 to 6 months…