US foreign policy expert Charles Gati believes that popular support among Hungarian voters for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is far weaker than his two-thirds parliamentary majority suggests, and that his government could be vulnerable if the “EU takes up the issue of corruption more seriously than it has in the past”.

The figure came in well ahead of analysts’ expectations of 3 per cent growth – supporting the US Federal Reserve’s decision to end its third round of quantitative easing on Wednesday.

Dire warnings that crime would go up as a result were unfounded. Over two years, the recidivism rate of former three-strikes inmates is 3.4 percent, or less than one-tenth of the state’s average. That’s, in large part, because of a strong network of re-entry services…

“According to VAWA, during any ‘institutional disciplinary hearing,’ both the accuser and accused are entitled “to be accompanied to any related meeting or proceeding by an advisor of their choice. That ‘clearly and unambiguously’ includes the option of an attorney, the Department of Education says.”

It is essential that LGH remain a separate legal entity with the right of withdrawing from its relationship with University of Pennsylvania Health System and with profits earned remaining for local use.

“Where are the patients?” an aid worker wondered aloud as colleagues puzzled over the empty beds at the International Medical Corps treatment unit here in Bong County, Liberia, which opened in mid-September.

The study by Common Cause, a Washington-based good-government nonprofit, rated the state positively on training for poll workers, accommodating disabled voters, and recordkeeping. But Pennsylvania also received poor marks in some key areas. High on the list of problems were the lack of online voting registration, the state’s requirement that voters must have a reason to request an absentee ballot, and the lack of early voting…

In the September poll, 37 percent of likely voters said they’d vote for Corbett while 57 percent said they’d choose Wolf. A month later, 40 percent of likely voters said they’d vote for Corbett and 53 percent said they’d vote for Wolf. That’s a 7 point gain in a month…

“We’ll need a steady state of at least 5,000 health workers from outside the region. Those health workers cannot work continuously. There needs to be a rotation,” Kim said. “So we will need many thousands of health workers over the next months to a year to bring this epidemic under control.”

He added it moves their pay closer to the national average for similar public institutions, which last year was $273,255, according to a survey by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources…

“The exchanges have become very much like Medicaid,” says Andrew Kleinman, a plastic surgeon and president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. “Physicians who are in solo practices have to be careful to not take too many patients reimbursed at lower rates or they’re not going to be in business very long.”

McCaffery apologized for his “lapse in judgment,” but blamed Castille for “cooking up a controversy” just to spite him. The two justices have had a historically rocky relationship — Castille even admitted to trying to remove McCaffery from the court and has publicly described him as a “sociopath.”