…Drug overdoses killed about 650 people in that period — more than murders and car crashes combined, records show. That does not include 70 drug-related suicides during that time.
The drugs most often involved came from the medicine cabinet, not street corners…
ELIZABETHTOWN (July 9) – The public library and many of the downtown storefronts here were empty on Friday morning, as Republican gubernatorial nominee Tom Corbett walked along the main street, talking about his proposals to help each.
When Corbett reached the library for a news conference after meeting with several small business owners, one businessman noted that the library cut back its hours because of state budget cuts.
From PAJAMASMEDIA.COM: … What follows is a tiny selection of sundry data that sheds some light on why European public finances are in so much trouble: Demographics: The birth rates in many European countries have fallen to below replacement levels at a time when life expectancy is increasing and populations are aging.
Opposition to the convention center project was bolstered by the selection of Pannell, Kerr, Forster (PKF) to perform the first feasibility study on the project. After PKF was chosen in mid-February 2006, many critics of the project turned their attention to the charges of the law firm at the center of virtually every aspect of this project: Stevens & Lee.
“The Pennsylvania Academy of Music’s campus in downtown Lancaster, designed by architect Philip Johnson and acoustician Cyril M. Harris, was completed in 2008. The building features the 364-seat Steinman Hall, as well as private teaching studios, theory and composition classrooms, and other facilities. This building is no longer owned or occupied by the academy and was inevitably sold to Millersville University of Pennsylvania, due to financial struggles by the academy.” – Wikipedia.
From PITTSBURGLIVE.COM: …[Governor Ed] Rendell defends the projects as economic development and says that bond money, not state General Fund revenue, will pay for the projects. One-third of the money goes to his hometown of Philadelphia. The projects, when matched dollar-for-dollar with private investment under program requirements, will pump $1.2 billion into the state’s economy, Rendell said.
Lancaster General Health has such a position in the Lancaster County market place, and through acquisitions and mergers is continuously expanding its control. For example, just recently it acquired the Heart Group and has opened three Urgent Care clinics. In other markets, insurance companies are able to negotiate competitive rates since they have a choice of two or three hospitals.
From AOL NEWS: …Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal official in charge of responding to the worst environmental catastrophe in the nation’s history, said today a new containment cap and the deployment of another ship to collect oil could effectively contain the spill by Monday…
Here are some thoughts about your legitimate question — why all the hostility toward the new PAM — put together by several former employees and faculty members: Unfortunately, the reservoir of bad feelings toward PAM runs deep. Many of its former teachers are still in the region teaching at local schools or in private studios, still offering excellent music education, just not under the PAM name.
From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: The papers of Sen. Arlen Specter (D., Pa.) belong in a library, but this project should not rely on the wallets of state taxpayers. Gov. Rendell stunned many state residents by revealing he had unilaterally authorized up to $10 million in state bonds to help build the Arlen Specter Library at Philadelphia University. Rendell directed millions more for a similar center honoring the late Rep. John M. Murtha in Johnstown.
From the WILKES-BARRE TIMES LEADER: Pennsylvania has become the third state to ask the federal government to allow the sale of advertising on electronic highway signs that it uses to convey safety and traffic information to motorists. Federal Highway Administration regulations bar advertisements on overhead and roadside changeable signs.
After having been personally involved with PAM in the past, I have to say that I find it heartbreaking that such a wonderful cause has been buried beneath egotistical blame games. At its roots, PAM is a institution that enriches the musical lives of a multitude of students from across Lancaster county and south central PA.
The Rt. 30/Harrisburg Pike interchange was rebuilt only nine years ago, at a cost of more than $45 million. It has no structural deficiencies, yet the Lancaster County Transportation Coordinating Committee wants it rebuilt and is asking the federal government for over $20 million to pay for it.
In “No sacred cows in process of belt-tightening”, columnist Jeff Hawkes comments “Now along comes county commissioner Scott Martin with questions about the need for the $470,000-a-year Human relations Commission…. The County established the anti-discrimination commission the same year President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Bill… Would asking the state to redress wrongs result on unreasonable delays and hardship…?