And as it was with their first go-round, neither Gov. Tom Corbett or Democrat Tom Wolf produced what anyone would consider a decisive blow for their election cause. Wolf was more aggressive than his first debate outing. However, during the second debate’s back-and-forth discussions, both men, sitting next to each other at a table, got some shots in on their opponent.
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Ten percent of female University of Oregon students raped: survey
REUTERS: About 10 percent of female University of Oregon students surveyed have been raped while attending the school and the vast majority of those sexual assault cases were never reported to campus officials, school researchers found.
Doctors Find Barriers to Sharing Digital Medical Records / LNP afraid to investigate?
NEW YORK TIMES: …Regardless of who is at fault, doctors and hospital executives across the country say they are distressed that the expensive electronic health record systems they installed in the hopes of reducing costs and improving the coordination of patient care — a major goal of the Affordable Care Act — simply do not share information with competing systems.
Gov. Corbett signs bill to help reduce fatalities from heroin overdoses
A drug called naloxone, commonly referred to by the brand name Narcan, reverses the effects of heroin and opioids like oxycodone. Although Pennsylvania permits paramedics and doctors to use it, police were not able to legally administer the antidote until now…
How Gary Hart Became the First Political Sex Scandal Casualty
DAILY BEAST: …It will surely come as a welcome balm to a failed statesman in his twilight years that a widely respected political journalist—and a wonderful writer to boot—has re-examined the senator’s stretch on the spit and basically signed on to his theory of the ordeal: namely, that Hart was the first victim of a political news media that had finally, in the spring of 1987, succumbed to the mob-pleasing temptation to display entertainment over serious reporting, gossip and trivialization over policy and substance, and take “character” simply to mean “character flaws.”
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL NEW ERA EDITORIAL
“It is time to bring heroin from out of the shadows and treat it as the public health crisis that it is…”
The Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong: a second Tiananmen?
Are political developments in Hong Kong heading for a second Tiananmen massacre? A fortnight ago, partly to provoke discussion, partly to sound an alarm, I suggested in a radio interview that unless the Chinese government wisely handled the fast-unfolding dynamics, things in Hong Kong might well come to that. At the time, it seemed a rash remark. Given events of the past several days, it is now the most pertinent consideration, the core driver of the fate of what many Hong Kong citizens are calling the Umbrella Revolution.
LETTER: The number of people being killed by police is steadily increasing
That Wikipedia has been systematically aggregating data on people killed by American police agencies from jurisdictions all over the country was completely unknown to me quite until recently.
Former Congressman Jim Traficant: one-of-a-kind
Traficant strode on stage in his cowboy boots, skinny tie, far out-of-style polyester suit and a “bouffant mound of hair that seemed to defy gravity,” as Matt Schudel of the Washington Post wrote. For nearly two hours, he answered questions, took heat and promised to fight for the employees.
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS
“Pa. attorney general’s office was stuck in a sexist time-warp: Editorial” goes on to huff:
“Reading that, knowing it was being circulated on state time, among people in the agency that is supposed to enforce state laws and put bad guys like Jerry Sandusky away, should blow the dials off any thinking person’s outrage meter.
Control of state Senate up for grabs
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: …Democrats are hoping Gov. Tom Corbett’s unpopularity in recent polls, combined with several contests in the eastern part of the state that might be more favorable to Democratic candidates, will translate to Democratic wins in November
Putin turns to from Europe to China. Will China turn on Russia?
“We are enabling China to exploit our gold and silver deposits, strategic raw materials of tungsten, molybdenum, copper and vanadium. It’s all will come back to Russia in the form of tanks, planes, missiles. The housing built by Chinese in Siberia will be used in future by Chinese citizens. Because China comes here strong and forever.”
Where political activism is unlikely to succeed
Support for most issues bundled into the War on Drugs had support a mile wide and a quarter of an inch thick. It took a couple of decades of informing the pubic, but over time and bombardment of factual information, national attitudes changed.
California Defelonization Initiative Appears Poised for Victory
The initiative would attempt to address the state’s chronic over-incarceration problems by moving six low-level, nonviolent crimes from felony/wobblers to misdemeanors. A “wobbler” is an offense that can be charged as either a felony or misdemeanor. Among the included offenses is simple drug possession. (The others include shoplifting under $950, check forgery under $950, and petty theft or receipt of stolen property under $950.)