York Daily Record Throws Some High Cheese at Scott Wagner’s Attacks on Public Sector Workers The York Daily Record editorial board threw a fastball high and in on Scott Wagner’s latest attack on Pennsylvania’s working class families. Last week, the York county garbage collector issued a press release stating that the senator was in the process of circulating a co-sponsorship memo…
Isaiah Poole, On Line Editor at the Campaign for America’s Future is back for Our Future Friday to… Isaiah Poole, On Line Editor at the Campaign for America’s Future is back for Our Future Friday to look back at the State of the Union Address and look forward to fights on the horizon.
Rick Smith Talks with PennLive Opinions Editor, John Micek, about Gov. Wolf’s Move to Undo Corbett’s Lame Duck Political Appointments | January 23, 2015 John L. Micek, Editorial and Opinions Editor for PennLive and The Patriot-News joins Rick to talk about Governor Tom Wolf’s recent moves to undo lame duck appointments and backroom patronage deals.
#PhlEd: Phila. School District Taking Actions Against Teachers for Informing Parents about Opting Out
#PhlEd: Phila. School District Taking Actions Against Teachers for Informing Parents about Opting Out Last week, Dan Denvir from the Philadelphia City Paper released a bombshell story revealing that 17 percent of students at Feltonville School of the Arts and Sciences in Philadelphia have opted out of state mandated exams that determine whether a school, or teacher, is…
Divesting America of Ozone-Destroying Energy Sources
Divesting America of Ozone-Destroying Energy Sources Long before the price of gas and oil began to plummet, socially conscious churches, universities, non-profit organizations, and local governments began to divest themselves of fossil fuel stock and shock the fossil fuel industry to understand the environmental and public health concerns. The World Council of Churches, which represents about…
Flipping Some Tables
A few weeks ago, I worked myself into a proper outraged adjunct state to sit down and write a blog post. It would’ve been a good one, too, and I already had much of it mapped out in my head as I normally do before I ever sit down at the computer. Then something happened…
Governor Wolf Follow’s Rhetoric With Action Regarding Erik Arneson
Governor Wolf Follow’s Rhetoric With Action Regarding Erik Arneson For Keystone Politics, Jon Geeting makes the argument that Governor Wolf has the right to appoint people who agrees with his vision to cabinet positions or to head governmental agencies, and that’s what Governor Wolf did when it came to firing Erik Arneson as director for the Office…
Three Degrees of Separation: Tom Wolf, Fresh Start PAC and Big Gas
Three Degrees of Separation: Tom Wolf, Fresh Start PAC and Big Gas This is an extended version to today’s post about Tom Wolf getting $1.5 million in campaign contributions from supporters of Big Gas, and the key players in this are Mike Mikus, Fresh Start PAC spokesman, and Rich Fitzgerald, who was Wolf’s largest individual industry contributor at $110,000….
Sins of Omission: The State of the Union & Obama’s Race Problem
Sins of Omission: The State of the Union & Obama’s Race Problem Speech-making has never been Barack Obama’s problem. From the first time the nation heard him as a young state senator from Chicago at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, through the Hope and Changestump speeches on the campaign trail in 2008 and his many Presidential addresses…
PennEast Pipeline “Scoping” Meetings Unacceptable for Citizen
PennEast Pipeline “Scoping” Meetings Unacceptable for Citizen PRESS RELEASE from Delaware Riverkeeper Network Opponents of the proposed PennEast pipeline submitted a letter today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) outlining concerns with the upcoming scoping meetings scheduled to begin next week. They are calling on FERC to extend the scoping period and satisfactorily address the…
Juicy Pumpkin Juice 