Some of those familiar with the grand jury presentment say it recommended charges that include perjury and contempt of court.

NEWSMAX: …Employees including bankers at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and college professors at Harvard University are seeing a range of moves to shift more costs to workers. Companies are introducing higher deductibles and co-payments, rising premiums and the imposition of wellness programs that carry penalties for people who don’t comply.

The water park is part of Straub’s larger vision for the structure, which includes a high-speed ferry and railway between Atlantic City and New York. He previously said he wanted to build a university “for geniuses.”

According to common economic wisdom, while lowering prices may seem like a good thing for consumers in struggling economy for day-to-day budgeting, full fledged deflation can sap demand and consumption, as people hold off on spending on the expectations that prices will lower yet further…

HARRISBURG PATARIOT-NEWS: …The latest hiring continues a shake-up in the Attorney General’s Office after 61 staff members were implicated in a growing email scandal, four of whom were fired and 11 suspended without pay. It also follows a grand jury investigation into alleged leaks from the office.

NEW YORK TIMES: Until recently, Pennsylvania had one of the strictest home-school laws in the nation.

When combined with the unfunded liability from the State Employees Retirement System, Pennsylvania is still facing $50 billion in pension debt…

“Yes, underregulated—which brings me back to the invisible hand. I thought I had laid this issue to rest by agreeing with Madrick that ‘the Invisible Hand is an approximation, usually not applicable in the real world without significant modification’ (his words). That’s right. And those modifications point toward, inter alia, antitrust laws, consumer protection, fair labor standards, health and safety regulation, financial regulation, and much more.

A reader alerted us of two articles on the subject by Gil Smart which we had not seen, apparently because they were not his regular column but posted at www.LancasterOnLine.com

It would be hard to overestimate the damage Pennsylvania’s elected leaders have inflicted on the commonwealth by failing to adequately and equitably fund public schools over the past four years. The inferior education being provided to students as a result is the reason so many are failing to pass assessment and graduation exams. Better-paying jobs will be out of their reach when they become adults, which will ultimately have a negative impact on the state’s economy.

The greatest failing of leadership in Harrisburg is the absence of anyone in power reminding our elected servants of their reputation for corruption, greed and stasis (evident in surveys of states and in strings of criminal charges) and telling them finally that enough is enough.

…the fundamental problem for malls is a glut of stores in many parts of the country, the result of a long boom in building retail space of all kinds.

The trendlines, if they hold, will be a help to incoming Gov. Tom Wolf and lawmakers as they wrestle with a 2015-16 budget picture sure to be complicated by rising public pension costs and medical assistance costs, among other costs…