In the signature review process, courts may require the minor party to provide a small army of volunteers or staff to be present, for work that can take weeks.

Under Corman’s plan, annual interest rates would be capped at 28 percent, compared to 18 percent in Better Choice. Instead of a $500 maximum, loans could be as large as $2,000. Sikorski also said the proposal doesn’t include the mandatory savings deposit. Lenders could charge a “maintenance fee” of as much as five percent a month on the unpaid debt.

In addition to a half-dozen comely assistants, Dr. Mong’s suite includes one room where an entire wall is a map of the planet. Sit in that chair and think about world issues.

This is a complicated problem with no easy solutions and a lot of different suggestions. Whether prohibition and US drug policies have played a key role or only a supporting one, it does seem clear that, at best, they have not helped. At worst, our drug policies in the region have increased violence and corruption in the region, enriching the worst — on both sides of the law.

We reached that conclusion after a great deal of discussion among the members of The Times’s Editorial Board, inspired by a rapidly growing movement among the states to reform marijuana laws.

It was spelled out in the Act 120 pension reforms that were enacted by the legislature in 2010, but instead of budgeting for those obligations, he provided $2 billion in corporate tax breaks and waited until now to claim a pension “crisis” in order to slash worker benefits as a “solution.”…

Wolf’s goal would be to raise the state’s share of public school costs to 50 percent. That’s a shift of several billion dollars a year. It currently pays about one-third, while property taxes shoulder more than 40 percent…

“I am not writing to exonerate my father because he did not commit a crime that needs a pardon,” he wrote. “If anything, he is guilty of failing to possess the God-like qualities ascribed to him by others, qualities that Joe was the first to insist he never had.”

Scores of cabins and even an art gallery laden with marble were added to the ferry’s upper decks, making the ship top-heavy. So much extra cargo was crammed on board that there was sometimes no space to secure it properly with chains and lashings. And, prosecutors say, the ferry’s crucial ballast water, needed to balance all the additional weight, was deliberately drained so that the vessel would not sit too low — a telltale sign to inspectors that the ferry was dangerously overloaded to bring in more money…

On Friday, the United States Commerce Department took another step in that direction, finding that Chinese solar companies had dumped their products on the American market at below cost, and imposing duties of 10.74 percent to 55.49 percent.

The marble walls far exceed anything that is installed in hotels and commercial buildings. The urinals are divided by marble screens per the most modern design.

HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Editorial: Despite what the Corbett administration repeatedly says (example here), Pennsylvania is not doing such a great job keeping an eye on the environmental fallout from the boom in shale gas drilling.