I am all for casinos and would love to see one in downtown Lancaster at the site of our convention center; however, if we think they are the long term answer to our statewide budget problems, we have a much larger problem.
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Online payday lenders agree to pull out of PA market.
The agreement alleges that WS Funding and Cash Call — California-based lending companies Reddam owns — charged Pennsylvania consumers rates that exceed those allowed under state law.
An Ominous Health Care Ruling
Under the decision of a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, people living in 36 states, mostly led by Republican governors or legislatures, would be in jeopardy because their states refused to set up “exchanges” or electronic marketplaces on which individuals can shop for insurance plans and apply for subsidies based on their incomes…
Pa. should be able to avoid an Atlantic City-style gambling recession, market analyst says
HARRISBURG PATRIOT-NEWS Column: …It is true that overall gaming revenue declined in 2013 in Pennsylvania for the first time since legalized casino gambling was introduced here in 2006.
Jerry Brown signs bill limiting full-contact football practice in California
Nineteen other states have banned full-contact high school football practices in the off-season, according to a legislative analysis…
LETTER: There needs to be honest conversations to find solution to pension problem
There needs to be an honest conversation with employees and the union to find a solution to this problem that is workable and doesn’t continue to kick the can down the road.
Corbett called “Dead Man Walking”
FiveThirtyEight website tracks governor and legislative elections in every state, using a compilation of as many polls as possible…. Pennsylvania is tied with California at about 96 percent likely Democrat.
Lifetime potential and achievement scoring system
An insightful fantasy game we play is grading the potentials of ourselves and those whom we know or have learned about and then also grading what the individuals have accomplished.
What do fame, wealth and lots of sex bring? Love People, Not Pleasure
What is unhappiness? Your intuition might be that it is simply the opposite of happiness, just as darkness is the absence of light. That is not correct. Happiness and unhappiness are certainly related, but they are not actually opposites.
Pennsylvania needs to end the credit-card approach to pension reform: John Yudichak
A plan supported by Senate Democrats would allow the state to address the 10 years of underfunding pensions by borrowing $9 billion to immediately reduce the unfunded liability.
LETTER: Ronald Reagan tells Soviet jokes.
Here is something that you can find interesting. I loved it.
Examining the Growth of the ‘Spiritual but Not Religious’
Because they dislike institutions, the spiritual but not religious also recoil from the deities such institutions are built around. “They may like Jesus, he might be their guru, he might be one of their many bodhisattvas, but Jesus as God is not on their radar screen,” Dr. Mercadante said…
Russians tell different stories concerning who downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
The most fantastic of them: Ukrainians downed Malaysian airliner by mistake, thinking it was the Vladimir Putin’s plane, bringing Russian President back to Russia from Latin America.
Largest US sentence reduction in history approved for drug offenders
Their decision came after the commission studied the results of a similar 2007 vote that affected only those serving time for crack cocaine offenses and found that inmates released early posed no greater risk of committing another crime than those who served their full terms…