Political
Lancaster Waste Authority’s Mysterious Offshore Cayman Islands Account
By Bill Keisling at June 19, 2013 | 12:08 pm | 0 Comment
Lancaster paradise: Risky business in the Caymans?
Funds from offshore account used to pay previous bond issue
LCSWMA’s unusual practices seem to be a ’creative-finance fund,’ rather than the prudent insurance used by most Pennsylvania public entities
The… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Energy & Environment , Featured , Haste Makes Waste , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Request for Investigation into Philadelphia’s Board of City Trusts
By Mark Schwartz at June 14, 2013 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
MARK D. SCHWARTZ
Attorney at Law
Post Office Box 330
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-0330
www.markschwartzesq.com
June 13, 2013
The Honorable Kathleen Kane – PERSONAL ATTENTION
Pennsylvania Attorney General
16th Floor
Strawberry… Read the rest
RTC Minute: Do We Need a Full-Time Legislature?
By Tom Owad at June 13, 2013 | 11:00 am | 0 Comment
Featured , Pennsylvania Issues , Political , RTC Media , Video
The Long Road From Lancaster To Buy the Harrisburg Incinerator
By Bill Keisling at June 12, 2013 | 9:37 am | 0 Comment
In their own words:
How a $45 million deal morphed
into a $150 million crap shoot
Lancaster Authority minutes shed light on $100 + million trash burner purchase:
• The original purchase price of the Harrisburg incinerator was only $45… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Energy & Environment , Haste Makes Waste , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Mount Ashmore: Rugged monument to bad government
By Bill Keisling at June 8, 2013 | 2:13 pm | 0 Comment
Internationally infamous dirty incinerator ash field at center of new PA bond deal
The mystery of the ‘missing’ toxic waste at Harrisburg’s incinerator
Directors of the Harrisburg and Lancaster, Pennsylvania, waste authorities say there are no outstanding environmental… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Energy & Environment , Featured , Haste Makes Waste , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Forget about Shutting the Barn Door – the Harrisburg Incinerator Scoundrels Run Free.
By Mark Schwartz at June 5, 2013 | 11:41 am | 0 Comment
Thank You Mayor Linda Thompson!
Make no mistake about it, this week’s SEC charge against and accepted by the City, was a charge against Linda Thompson for failure to disclose pertinent financial information. Did heads roll? Was an… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Featured , Haste Makes Waste , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political , Watch Dog
Standing Tall for Landowner Rights
By Walter Brasch at June 4, 2013 | 9:31 am | 0 Comment
Julia Trigg Crawford of Direct, Texas, is the manager of a 650-acre farm that her grandfather first bought in 1948. The farm produces mostly corn, wheat, and soy. On its north border is the Red River; to the west is… Read the rest
[...read more]Energy & Environment , Featured , Legal , Marcellus Shale , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Hazardous waste for years dumped illegally at Harrisburg incinerator, DEP documents reveal
By Bill Keisling at May 31, 2013 | 10:38 am | 0 Comment
Hazardous waste for years was illegally processed and improperly disposed at the grounds of the Harrisburg incinerator, documents on file with Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection reveal.
Much of the harmful and long-lived hazardous waste was received, and its… Read the rest
[...read more]Dauphin County Watch , Energy & Environment , Featured , Haste Makes Waste , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Circumventing Transparency: Pennsylvania’s Latest Shell Game to Protect Big Energy
By Walter Brasch at May 28, 2013 | 10:05 am | 0 Comment
David M. Jacobson wanted a transcript of a public hearing conducted by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), May 2. The public meeting was to allow persons to discuss a proposal by National Gypsum and En-Tire Logistics to build… Read the rest
[...read more]Energy & Environment , Marcellus Shale , Pennsylvania Issues , Political
Welcome to Pumpkin World: Where One In-the-Bag Pennsylvania Attorney General Follows Another
By Mark Schwartz at May 24, 2013 | 9:00 am | 0 Comment
With her announcement to not press criminal charges or even bring a civil action against those who have abused the Hershey Trust, Attorney General Kathleen Kane, in typically disappointing fashion, fits in perfectly with her predecessors in the office.
Bob… Read the rest
[...read more]Featured , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political , Watch Dog
