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The No News News Media
By Walter Brasch at February 4, 2013 | 7:00 am | 0 Comment
There was a lot of news last week. Some of it was even reported by the news media. First, there was a football player from Notre Dame who either did or didn’t know that his girlfriend was or wasn’t real, but died sometime during the season. Six column headlines for several days announced the fraud. […]
[...read more]Rock The Capital Minute
By Eric Zager at April 22, 2011 | 10:40 am | 1,332 Comments
In this edition of RTC Minute; Philip Gimson can not let go of the tax season and the inequity it brings. In Japan, a plan to build 100,000 temporary homes to ease the burden for most of the folks still living out of shelters, and its Earth Day – so do good for you, and the environment.
[...read more]Business , Economy , Energy & Environment , Pennsylvania Issues , RTC Media
A cool shot of relief for Fukushima
By Eric Zager at March 23, 2011 | 12:02 pm | 126 Comments
It truly is the first positive for the Fukushiama Dai-ichi nuclear power plant since taking hits from an earthquake and tsunami nearly two weeks ago.
[...read more]Reaching a Boiling Point in and out of Japan’s troubled Nuclear Plant.
By Eric Zager at March 22, 2011 | 10:19 am | 0 Comment
Engineers are back at the Fukishima nuclear plant and they are confronting yet another extremely serious complication: water in a fuel rod pool is nearing the boiling point and that could lead to an explosion, and or emitting more radiation,
[...read more]A Souper Bowl that delivers more than Hype
By Philip Gimson at February 6, 2011 | 9:08 am | 1,572 Comments
Rock The Capital’s Philip Gimson has been pondering the what ifs surrounding the Super Bowl. If we could only get a billion people just as excited about an alternative Bowl. As Gimson observed if just 1 percent of the money bet on the game went to feed the hungry that alone would amount to an estimated $100 million dollars worth of food.
[...read more]A bold start to educating Pennsylvania’s Homeless Children
By Jan Chaplick at February 4, 2011 | 10:24 am | 172 Comments
Despite all the talk about slashing school budgets, Rock The Capital’s Jan Chaplick found a bold proposal to to start learning about the educational needs of homeless children. A proposal is on the table to form a statewide task force in Pennsylvania.
[...read more]Education , Featured , Legal , Pennsylvania Issues , Political , Uncategorized
Story of Homeless Man with Golden Voice Teaches us how to Survive in Pennsylvania & across the Globe
By Philip Gimson at January 17, 2011 | 10:17 am | 1,264 Comments
Ted Williams,(not the great baseball player), but rather the homeless man with the golden voice. Williams was re-discovered a couple of weeks ago and as Rock The Capital’s Philip Gimson underscores — in Williams story — is a story of hope and survival/
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