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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: Criminals, Politics, Regional Authority, Mike Turzai, 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: Pennsylvania General Assembly, Politics, Career and Workplace, Judges, Corporate Officers
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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: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Finance, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, Montgomery County (Pennsylvania)
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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: Jerry Sandusky, Judges, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Heisman Trophy, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Lawyers, Regional Authority, Ed Pawlowski, 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: Criminals, Politics, Career and Workplace, Executive Branch, Unemployment
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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: Productivity, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Finance
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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: Politics, Lawyers, Judges, Ethics, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Jerry Sandusky, Houston Cougars, Google Inc., Oklahoma State Cowboys, Big 12 Conference
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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: Mining, Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal and Mineral, Range Resources Corporation
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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, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Daylin Leach, Drugs and Medicines, Heroin
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Questions go unanswered on proposed new state gas drilling rules
There was happy news this past week for people concerned about what Marcellus Shale gas drilling might be doing to Pennsylvania's water. "DEP proposes stronger rules for regulating shale industry," said a headline in Tuesday's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette....Tags: Politics, Cancer, Career and Workplace, Executive Branch, Environmental Cleanup
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
Sep 1, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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