BULLIES: What do you do when the School is the Bully?
By Patti Howell
I truly believe it is easier to fight City Hall than it is to fight the Central Dauphin school district! They make their own rules and run their schools like a dictatorship. Their word is law… Read the rest
While We Subsidize Fossil Fuels, One American Industrial Giant Invests In Green Technology
While some of our politicians and fossil fuel barons try, with varying success, to convince us we’re not digging up enough coal, oil or natural gas, the folks who we are told are selling us our oil are busy… Read the rest
Sometimes It Takes Us All To Share The Expense
Wind power, a Pennsylvania state politician recently said, is accomplishing one thing: spending taxpayer money.
But there is growing evidence it is doing other, more positive things, such as creating jobs and supplying the electrical grid – with considerably… Read the rest
Late May Not Be Better Than Never
Last month, the EPA announced new regulations that will require natural gas drillers to capture the methane they ordinarily allow to escape before they cap their well. The new rules take effect in 2015.
Last week, the Department of… Read the rest
Replacing Humans With Machines Not Necessarily a Cost Savings
The Messeder Space Pod (for want, at present, of a better name) finally is ready to go. My co-pilot in life and other travels went visiting her sister a couple months ago, and came home in love with an… Read the rest
