Until the middle of the last century, homes were heated with coal and at night windows were kept open and blankets were pulled up as the coal in the furnace was consumed. Attention deficit disorder, deficit hyperactivity disorder, allergies, asthma and so many of today’s prevalent childhood health ailments were rare exceptions.

Tomorrow’s editorial in the Lancaster Sunday News is headed “Train servers who dispense alcohol.” The editor’s mean well, they make a valid point, but otherwise they really don’t know what they are talking about.

Air from Harrisburg with a transfer did not save 1 minute of travel, cost three times as much, and did not allow me wireless computer access.

As with the drug trade, much of the violence associated with sex work is exacerbated by its illegality. Violent people are more likely to prey on sex workers, confident that they won’t be reported to police. This leaves workers dependent on pimps and madams for protection, which often leads to more violence.

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: A day after the resignation of Ron Tomalis, special adviser to the governor on higher education, calls continued Wednesday for investigations into whether he was a “ghost employee” and into the state Department of Education’s email retention policy.

Western countries believe that Putin – who has whipped up the passions of Russians with a nationalist campaign in state-controlled media since annexing Crimea from Ukraine in March – could now send his forces into the east to head off a humiliating rebel defeat…

The Wall Street Journal calls “Days of Fire; Bush and Cheney in the White House” by Peter Baker. “A journalistic miracle: [Baker] has written a thorough, engaging and fair history on the Bush- Cheney White House.”

WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Is there a major patronage scandal erupting in Gov. Tom Corbett’s administration on the eve of the November election?

One senior Iraqi official said that overnight Mr. Maliki had also positioned more tanks and extra units of special forces soldiers loyal to him in the fortified Green Zone of government buildings in Baghdad. The official said Mr. Maliki had “gone out of his mind, and lives on a different planet — he doesn’t appreciate the mess he has created.”

That means potentially having lawyers tearing through internal documents, interviewing NCAA and Penn State officials under oath, and conducting other inspections to which the two powerful, yet closed-off, institutions aren’t accustomed – and then having that information laid out in what would be a highly publicized court proceeding.

Instead of putting the $11 billion directly into those projects, critics say, the administration made the mistake of parceling out the money to upgrade existing Amtrak service, which will allow trains to go no faster than 110 miles per hour.

LEHIGH VALLEY MORNING CALL: For more than a century, governors and lawmakers have tried to change the state’s uniform personal income tax, which makes most workers pay the same rate regardless of income…