“It would be, in my humble judgment, without precedent,” said G. Terry Madonna, a pollster and a professor of public affairs at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster…

Schwartz blamed Wolf for the loss of hundreds of jobs at his namesake home-building products company, The Wolf Organization, saying a $60 million buyout for Wolf and his two cousins sunk the company into debt.

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE: Gov. Tom Corbett said this morning his office will “go to work” to write new legislation for a voter ID law one day after dropping his appeal on the previous law.

In the U.S., life satisfaction continued to drop, from 14th in last year’s report to 17th in this year’s report. This is despite the fact the U.S. led all nations in both disposable income and household net wealth per capita. One reason, Boarini highlighted, was that inequality remained pervasive in the United States

“In recent years, many communities have taken steps to support more transportation options, such as bicycling and walking,” said Brian McKenzie, a Census Bureau sociologist and author of the report. “For example, many cities have invested in bike share programs, bike lanes and more pedestrian-friendly streets.” …

“It’s not just about putting a shelter over people’s heads,” he said. “It’s about dealing with each of these discrete problems. You have to educate people, you have to provide medical treatment, you have to provide employment opportunities.”

Insurers, appearing before a panel of the Energy and Commerce Committee, testified that the law had not led to a government takeover of their industry, as some Republicans had predicted. Indeed, several insurers said their stock prices had increased in the last few years

A draft plan circulated this week ignores some of the key problems with the booze monopoly, and would retain much of it. Rather than turning over the alcoholic beverage industry to the private sector and limiting the state to its legitimate roles of regulation and enforcement, the Senate plan would pander to private interests.

Only about one-quarter are performing proficiently or better in math and just 4 in 10 in reading. And they’re not improving, the report says, reinforcing concerns that large numbers of today’s students are unprepared for either college or the workplace.

However, for $40, a carbon monoxide detector which will warn the occupants can be obtained to be placed inside the portion of the house adjoining the door to the garage.

COURIER TIMES / AP: Sen. Jim Ferlo, D-Allegheny, said the plan would sap $50 million from the state treasury at a time when the government’s finances are facing a $1 billion-plus deficit. He also warned that it would hurt small businesses to benefit big businesses.

We recently discussed with a prominent mid-state business leader a puzzling aspect of how public business is conducted in Lancaster County.

“Pennsylvania faces fiscal pressures in the form of a structurally unbalanced budget, depleted reserves, and a rapidly growing pension cost burden following years of underfunding and market-driven investment declines,” Fitch warned on April 24. “Continued inability to address these concerns, or worsening of any of these conditions, over the near term could trigger further negative rating action.”

KTLA 5: The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”…