Those encounters are increasingly frequent in the city as well as around the country amid skyrocketing heroin use and opioid pill abuse. In Suffolk County, officers have saved more than 184 lives since a pilot program began there in 2012. On Friday, officers on Staten Island twice revived residents in the throes of an overdose by administering the drug…
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Orphans in Russia
According to official statistics there were 697,000 orphans in Russia in 2010, more than during WWII. In 1940 the figure was 678,000.
Time for a second Constitutional Convention?
Given their experiences and struggles with England, our founding fathers understandably had distaste for the parliamentary form of the British government, with its then powerful monarchy and the House of Lords that shared power with the House of Parliament.
Handicapping a shale extraction tax
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE Column: It’s a question with huge implications for state budget negotiations next month and perhaps for the length of Gov. Tom Corbett’s tenure in the governor’s mansion: Will Corbett sign a bill bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars through a tax on natural gas drilling if the Republican-controlled Legislature sends him one?…
Long general election campaign ahead
Before Keystone voters go to the polls in November they will be the hapless subjects of the dirtiest campaign ever in a state known for such battles. Republican incumbent Tom Corbett has shown to be the most incompetent governor in modern times.
In Sweden consumer prices are twice what they are in USA
American travelers in England, France and Germany are accustomed to costs in U. S. Dollars being approximately 35% higher than in the USA, about the difference in value of the Euro to the dollar. (The exchange rate is around one Euro = $1.37.)
LANCASTER SUNDAY NEWS
“Because while those heartwarming reunions between those soldiers and their kids were nice — wouldn’t it be better if we didn’t have to have so many of them in the first place?”
Wolf v. Corbett: 5 issues they’ll tussle over between now and November
“You will see the Corbett campaign begin to peel the layers of the onion away, and begin to expose some of the inconsistencies in that story,”
LETTER: The ONLY possible way for the Convention Center to generate what it needs
While I do not believe that the intent of the original backers was to open a casino, a casino is the ONLY possible way for the building to generate what it needs to generate.
Iran cuts nuclear stockpile, IAEA says
The report also said Tehran was meeting all other obligations under an agreement reached four months ago in Geneva that serves as a prelude to a comprehensive deal now being negotiated…
Lots of questions concerning Scott Martin’s offer to preserve Convention Center
A careful reading of “7 Year Plan: Martin: It’s crunch time for Lancaster County Convention Center” in the Intelligencer Journal New Era raises many questions, the answers to which are not to be found in the article.
California billionaire puts Tom Corbett in his cross-hairs, vows support of Tom Wolf
Corbett’s campaign spokesman Billy Pitman said it was “no real surprise” that a “super-wealthy environmental activist is coming to the support of another super-wealthy candidate” who has proposed “a job-killing energy tax” and who leads a party that advocates a ban on fracking.
What our experts didn’t understand but Ronald Reagan surmised, and fantasized
“The Soviets had stretched beyond anything the CIA imagined. At the time of Reykjavik, they were estimated to be devoting 12 to 14 percent of their gross national product (GNP) to defense.
Pa. steers clear of retesting older drivers strictly because of age
Every month, the department randomly selects 1,900 of the state’s more than nearly 5 million licensed drivers over the age of 45 to be retested. Those who are chosen are required to undergo vision and physical exams by health care providers of their own choosing within seven months of their license renewal.