Browsing Month June, 2013
Appeals Court Says Municipalities May Zone for Fracking
By John Messeder at July 31, 2012 | 8:53 am | 0 Comment
For years, Pennsylvania’s municipalities have held zoning power within their borders. As long as they provided a place within their borders for all legal land uses, they were allowed to tell developers of all stripe where to go.
A… Read the rest
Top Sales Tax States
By Eric Epstein at July 30, 2012 | 9:20 am | 0 Comment
| State | Rate |
| Indiana | 7.0% |
| Mississippi | 7.0% |
| New Jersey | 7.0% |
| Rhode Island | 7.0% |
| Tennessee |
Too Often “Free Speech” Is Yelling Fire in a Crowded Theater
By John Messeder at July 27, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
It’s taken me some time to get my thoughts together about the shooting spree last week in Aurora, Colorado. When I stopped counting, there were 12 dead and 58 wounded in the audience that had, earlier in the evening, looked… Read the rest
[...read more]TMI Responds to Monitoring Well Sample
By Rock The Capital - Admin at July 26, 2012 | 11:30 am | 0 Comment
Exelon Generation
For Immediate Release
Londonderry Twp., PA- (July 25, 2012) Chemistry technicians at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station have found a slightly elevated level of tritium in one monitoring well on the site near the plant
For Whom, Exactly, Does the Pa Legislature Work? (Hint: Think Deep Pockets)
By John Messeder at July 24, 2012 | 8:00 am | 0 Comment
According to a release last week by MarcellusMoney.org, the Marcellus Shale natural gas industry has spent $23 million in direct contributions to favored legislator campaigns and lobbying efforts since 2000.
The big winners in the Cash for Legislation sweepstakes between… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Energy & Environment , Featured , Marcellus Shale , Meet the FOCers , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Top Ten Per Diems: 2011 Senate of Pennsylvania
By Eric Epstein at July 23, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
| 1) Timothy Solobay (D) | $16,842 |
| 2) Robert Robbins ((R) | $13,976 |
| 3) John Pippy (R) | $13,202 |
| 4) Michael Stack (D) | $12,150 |
Coal, Possibly the Uncleanest Fuel
By John Messeder at July 20, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
King Coal loudly proclaims its place in our society, from the employment it claims to offer to the electricity it sends to our homes. Billboards along the Interstate insist that coal – often referred to as “clean coal” – is… Read the rest
[...read more]The Risks of Cloud Computing: Mobile Me, Meebo, and Google Video
By Tom Owad at July 19, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 0 Comment
I have a Macintosh Color Classic sitting on a shelf in a spare bedroom. I power it up once every year or so, sometimes to recover old data for a customer, and sometimes just to play a classic game. Each… Read the rest
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