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Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board privatization plan — plague or progress?
Just when Pennsylvania may be on the brink of a burgeoning booze business, somebody has to go and make it harder for the police to bust drunk drivers. On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Corbett uncorked his privatization plan to replace the state liquor monopoly...Tags: Pennsylvania Turnpike, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Politics, Privatization, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Joe Conti leaving the LCB, but not for long
Say what you will about the controversial Joe Conti of Doylestown, he sure knows how to land on his feet — this time with a nice now-he's-out and now-he-isn't deal with the state Liquor Control Board. In 2005, then-state Sen. Conti, R-Bucks, had a...
Tags: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Labor Legislation, Regional Authority
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Pension agency official's salary is blasted by state treasurer
If you mouse your way to the Pennsylvania State Employees' Retirement System website and click on "About SERS," you then can find a comforting "SERS Snapshot," which paints a rosy picture of how the system is humming along. The Snapshot's chart shows...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Economy, Business and Finance, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Government
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Time For NCAA To Start From Scratch, Chart A New Course
The Hartford CourantThis isn't about the good guys and the bad guys anymore. There always will be good guys and bad guys. This is about common sense, the kind of sense that is sometimes hard to find among the most educated and entitled. The NCAA has lost the faith of the...Tags: Joe Paterno, ESPN (tv network), Heisman Trophy, Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles
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It's a not-so-wonderful life for Gov. Tom Corbett
"You sent for me, sir?" asked Clarence. "Yes, Clarence," said the senior angel. "A man down on Earth needs our help. His name is Tom Corbett." "Splendid," Clarence said. "Is he sick?" "No, but he's extremely discouraged, and he has begun thinking the...Tags: Politics, Elections, Ed Pawlowski, Crime, Law and Justice, Executive Branch
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Gov. Tom Corbett blames workers, again, for state's job growth fiasco
When Tom Corbett was running for governor in 2010, he argued that the business community was suffering because Pennsylvania's workers were too lazy to wean themselves from the unemployment benefits being extended by those nasty Democrats in Washington....
Tags: Government, Allyson Y Schwartz, Employment, Regional Authority, Employment Opportunities
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Ed Rendell's payments from gas drilling interests not disclosed in pro-fracking column
Former Gov. Ed Rendell, whose Democratic Party usually comes down on the side of protecting the environment, once called New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "crazy" for backing a moratorium on gas drilling until environmental concerns could be resolved. This past...Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Environmental Pollution, Economy, Business and Finance, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Water Pollution
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Pennsylvania ethics uproar is over peanuts
Worrywarts are going overboard when they question the tributes afforded to a couple of Pennsylvania's esteemed leaders and their wives. You say Gov. Tom Corbett and his wife accepted a little over $11,000 in goodies from business big shots and...
Tags: Business Enterprises, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Values
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SEC football needs to shed FCS cupcakes, schedule tougher nonconference games
The Southeastern Conference needs to go on a diet. Forget the cabbage. Put away the watermelon. Leave the grapefruit for the health nuts. What the SEC needs to avoid is the cupcakes. Not the sugary sweet ones that you find next to the deli at the...
Tags: South Carolina Gamecocks, Abusive Behavior, College Football, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), Houston Cougars
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Fracking foes play with a stacked deck, and DEP knows 'when to run'
Somebody is not telling the truth. At issue is whether deliberate actions by state officials are letting Texas gas industry robber barons do more damage to the environment than was done by coal industry robber barons in the last century, and are...
Tags: Environmental Cleanup, Water, Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Mining
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Marijuana decriminalization compromise may be necessary in Pennsylvania
"Politics is not an exact science," explained the exalted 19th-century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. "Politics is the art of the possible." Of course, Bismarck also said, "We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear...
Tags: New York City, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Methadone (drug), Crime, Law and Justice
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Superstorm Sandy, state by state
States along the East Coast were pummeled as Superstorm Sandy came crashing ashore. The storm officially made landfall along the coast of southern New Jersey Monday night, but it is affecting a much wider area. By early Tuesday, more than 7.5 million...
Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Breezy Point, LaGuardia Airport, Snow Storms
Feb 2, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jan 29, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jan 26, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jan 26, 2013
|Column| Hartford Courant
May 3, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 2, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 30, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Feb 24, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Feb 23, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Feb 19, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Oct 30, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
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