“At the very least, submission of this issue to the Judicial Conduct Board should serve as an admonition that jurists should not send or be part of networks that regularly exchange insensitive emails or similar materials because such conduct could cast both the jurist and the judiciary into disrepute or could cause a reasonable person to question the impartiality of a judge and the judicial system,” the report states.

In discussions of modern libraries with people who are out of touch, one often hears the comment: “Now that we have the Internet, there is little need for libraries.” Of course they are mistaken, as is pointed in an article in today’s New York Times entitled “Long Line at the Library? It’s Story Time Again”

There is nothing natural about the fast food industry paying $10 or less to employees. It is simply that there is no industry wide force working on behalf of workers.

According to Bob Fernandez, a source deemed reliable, Terry Egger, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News says they will merge their newsrooms to save $5 million to $6 million per year.

Right now, marijuana is listed by the federal government as a Schedule One drug, meaning that it is considered to be as dangerous as heroin. That is absurd. In my view, the time is long overdue for us to remove the federal prohibition on marijuana. In my view, states should have the right to regulate marijuana the same way that state and local laws now govern the sale of alcohol and tobacco. And among other things, that means that recognized businesses in states that have legalized marijuana should be fully able to use the banking system without fear of federal prosecution.

Corruption stalls growth, stifles investment, denies people their dignity, and undermines national security. Corruption in Hungary is a serious concern – quite clearly a top concern of average Hungarians, as I have heard, and as public polls consistently show. Wherever systemic corruption has effectively undermined fair governance, it creates an environment ripe for civil unrest, resistance to the government, and even violent extremism.

Despite public support for legalization and despite legalization already being the law in four states and the nation’s capital, marijuana arrests remain near all-time highs. In 2014 there were 700,993 arrests for marijuana in the United States, nearly nine out of ten of them for simple possession. Black and brown people continue to be arrested for pot offenses at a disproportionate rate.

“In our view, it violates the right of every citizen to be considered innocent until proved guilty. Kane is under indictment for lying to a grand jury, but has yet to be tried.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane says she turned over more than 1,000 of Eakin’s emails to the court and various state ethics agencies four weeks ago and suggested the content violates judicial conduct rules…

This week in the limelight of Russian media there were three reports critical of the moral outlook of the modern Russian society.

WellSpan York Hospital said Monday it was notifying about 1,300 current and former patients of possible exposure to potentially harmful bacteria during open-heart surgeries performed over nearly four years, from Oct. 1, 2011, to July 24, 2015. The hospital said the infection had been identified in less than 1 percent of patients who had open-heart surgery during the period.