HARRISBURG PATRIOT NEWS Column: …Each defendant has asserted he believed Baldwin was acting as his personal attorney when she attended their grand jury appearances i Harrisburg in 2011, and their attorney / client privilege was never waived.
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Job No. 1 for the next governor? A huge budget gap
PHILLY.COM / AP: …Tax collections have been disappointing. Costs are rising by more than $1 billion a year, primarily for health care for the poor and public employee pensions.
Judges once again will be allowed to judge: Hurrah!
A front page article on “Mandatory minimum sentences are ‘unconstitutional,’ Pa. court says” was the best news we have encountered in a long time…
Why More, Not Fewer, People Might Start Getting Health Insurance Through Work
The law’s best-known and least-liked provision — the “individual mandate” — is probably causing the trend. For the first time, people must buy insurance this year or be subject to a tax penalty. In Massachusetts, a similar requirement changed the employer-sponsored insurance market in two ways, said Sharon Long, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, who has studied the state’s experience.
GOP: Wolf ‘Fresh Start’ campaign violates Pennsylvania law
The complaint, signed by [Party Chair] Gleason and GOP vice chair Joyce Haas, says Fresh Start “only exists because Wolf authorized its formation on behalf of his campaign.”…
EDITORIAL: The U. S. phone number is not 911
Critics and idlers like to say that Obama is ‘weak’ and this is encouraging every problem that breaks out in the world, as though with George W. Bush all was peace and quiet.
Penn State Board entrenchment worst option
After the badly divided board voted last week to maintain the ill-considered consent decree the university entered with the NCAA after Mr. Sandusky’s arrests, some board leaders proposed reducing the number of alumni-elected board members from nine to six…
Gas production from Marcellus shale sets record despite fewer new wells going online
EDITOR: It is long past time that the gas be taxed as it is in other states, despite Tom Corbett getting huge contributions from the industry. Allowing gas to go untaxed is an outrage.
The Ukrainian Army
On August 11 a Ukrainian web site news.liga.net published a sensational interview with the commander of the Ukrainian Volunteer Battalion Dnepr–1 Yuri Bereza. What is the Volunteer Battalion Dnepr–1 and why an interview with its commander made such a sensation?
The Verdict on a Troublesome Carcinogen
“Some companies have stopped using formaldehyde, but the chemical is still found in nail polish, shampoo, soap, fabric softeners, hair straighteners, carpets and other consumer products…”
USA TODAY / AP
Article “Atlantic City fears darkness after casinos close” reports: “Before summer ends, Revel, Trump Plaza, the Showboat and the Atlantic Club will be shuttered ex-casinos, leaving Atlantic City officials looking for a way to avoid having dark, empty shells on its signature Boardwalk.
25 years ago, the birth of a program to assist underpriviledged children
I was asked to reflect on Project Forward Leap’s first Summer College in 1989 (then referred to as the residential summer institute). That was not hard to recollect. The favorite song of the first group was rap artist MC Hammer’s, “You Can’t Touch This.” It was sung and danced to by the students everywhere on campus all summer. I can still hear and see them…
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE
“No one argues that notorious pyramid builder Bernie Madoff doesn’t deserve his 150-year sentence for stealing about $20 billion of his clients’ money. But the objective is exactly that — to ensure that the people at the top of such schemes, rather than mere functionaries, receive the harshest sentences…”
Governor hopefuls target tax talk at middle class
STATE.COM / AP: …An attack ad for Republican incumbent Tom Corbett warns voters that his Democratic challenger, Tom Wolf, wants to “raise the state income tax on many middle-class Pennsylvania families.”