Browsing Month June, 2013
Author Sues Townships Organization for Access to Public Information
By John Messeder at October 30, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
In spite of publicity in recent years about state agencies being made more transparent, there remain plenty of road blocks to acquiring information which seemingly should be public. Such a situation faced Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania-based author and social issues journalist Walter… Read the rest
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Top Ten Candy Bars
By Eric Epstein at October 29, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
1. M&Ms
Revenue Generated: $406.7 million
Unit Sales: 417.7 million
2. Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups
Revenue Generated: $398.9 million
Unit Sales: 366.2 million
3. Snickers
Revenue Generated: $386.2 million
Unit Sales: 405.3 million
4. Hershey’s
Revenue Generated:… Read the rest
Arizona Threatens Secession; It May Be a Growing Trend
By John Messeder at October 26, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
Come election day, the good citizens of Arizona will decide whether to amend their state constitution, granting themselves sovereignty over the Grand Canyon, allowing themselves to “take it back” from the rest of us. The goal, apparently is to increase… Read the rest
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Democracy Rising: A Final Word, A New Beginning
By Rock The Capital - Admin at October 23, 2012 | 12:53 pm | 0 Comment
by Tim Potts
A while ago, a DR supporter unsubscribed from DR News, saying that he thought DR could change things in Harrisburg, but we haven’t.
I replied that DR never could change things in the Capitol. Only… Read the rest
[...read more]Resource Exploitation Without Control: A Recipe for Disaster
By John Messeder at October 23, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
I love traveling. I enjoy meeting people in a variety of places, with different manners of talking and thinking. Though sometimes there aren’t as many differences as one might think.
A friend turned 40 a few years ago, nearly at… Read the rest
[...read more]Unemployment Rates in the Americas
By Eric Epstein at October 22, 2012 | 10:21 am | 0 Comment
“The unemployment rate is defined as the level of unemployment divided by the labor force. The labor force is defined as the number of people employed plus the number unemployed but seeking work.”
Ode to the Little House
By John Messeder at October 19, 2012 | 11:06 am | 0 Comment
I was raised an outdoors kind of guy. Even for that? you ask. Yes, even for that. When I was a lad, the running water was a hand pump about 50 yards in one direction from the kitchen door. It… Read the rest
[...read more]New Stealth Law Replaces Higher Ed Funding With Marcellus Royalties
By John Messeder at October 17, 2012 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
With only the ever so faint brush of pen on paper to announce it, Senate Bill 367 became Act 147 of 2012, the Indigenous Mineral Resources Incentives Development Act. It effectively declared open for fracking all state-owned lands, including state… Read the rest
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