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This editorial appeared this week in the Patriot-News.
Across the state, people are grappling with our system of property assessment.
Opinion
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday: ——— You have to admire the cunning of the pharmaceutical industry.
Several groups have worked together to produce this report, "A Citizen's Guide to a Modern Constitutional Convention."
It offers a framework for residents and lawmakers on what it would take to hold a Constitutional Convention, seen as the only way to significantly reform Pennsylvania government.• Bill won't save lives
• No more drilling• Bikes should be allowedIt’s been a challenging 2009 for many, and with Thanksgiving just around the corner we wonder what you’re especially thankful for this year.
• Development opportunities
• Cycle of violence• Health bill for allFOCUS ON EXCESSIVE DRINKING
• Not so Penn State proud
• Make students work harder• Some things to think about• Road plan runs off course
• For the record• We are not at war
THISIBELIEVE
It took my wife and me three days to empty the cardboard boxes in our new apartment. I took care of the kitchen, unpacking mixing bowls and wooden spoons, placing them on unfamiliar shelves.
THEIRVIEW
Government often commits its most unconscionable acts when no one is looking.
A while ago I found myself, for the second time, walking in the annual State College Halloween parade. The first time was exactly 60 years earlier. My parents lived in faculty housing beside the Ware-hams. I was a witch in the cold rain. I cried all the way across town and remember the misery as I finally proceeded slowly down the ramp into Memorial Field. My makeup ran down my
With Thanksgiving fast approaching, it’s seems appropriate to take this opportunity to give thanks for the countless people who share in the support and success of our Centre County United Way. Our community is blessed with an abundance of thoughtful, generous,
Earlier this week, the inspector-general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, aka, the bank bailout fund, released his report on the 2008 rescue of the American International Group, the insurer. The gist of the report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received huge benefits from the rescue.
What will the United States be like in 20 years when today’s toddlers are in college or trying to land that first job or maybe thinking about starting a family?
STATE BUDGET: Commissioners may borrow cash in monthslong stalemate
BELLEFONTE — With the state budget stalemate continuing into its fourth month, Centre County commissioners said Tuesday they are quickly reaching the point where they will have to tap a $15 million line of credit to keep the county government running.
Lawmakers raise ire of activists, constituents with performance
STATE COLLEGE — Common Cause of Pennsylvania’s Sara Steelman told a group of concerned citizens Monday that state lawmakers should be fined and their per diem pay forfeited in the future if they don’t pass a budget by June 30.
Supervisor and council candidates in Centre Region townships say they’re worried the state budget crisis will undermine their own budgets by draining the tax revenue well dry.
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