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Paying for the Pain
By Eric Zager at May 13, 2011 | 11:17 am | 4 Comments
It appears that it will take much longer for TEPCO to bring the plant under control by early next year, with the discovery of a heavily damaged reactor, which is beyond the scope of what the company imagined.
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By Eric Zager at May 13, 2011 | 10:11 am | 2 Comments
In this edition of Rock The Capital Minute; Osama Bin Laden used computer disks to avoid being detected. In Japan, a plan is almost in place to start compensating thousands of people forced to evacuate their homes because of the nuclear disaster, and an off the beaten path to protest Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett’s proposed massive cuts to education.
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Bin Laden still had a heavy hand in al-Qaeda
By Eric Zager at May 6, 2011 | 1:15 pm | 0 Comment
Osama Bin Laden played a hand in al-Qaeda right up until his death. Over the past few years, terrorism experts came to see bin Laden as not much more than Qaeda’s symbolic leader. It was widely believed that he no longer concerned himself with day to day operations, but that view is changing in light of documents and files retrieved during the raid at his home in Abbottabad, earlier this week.
[...read more]Tokyo Electric’s Bright Idea
By Eric Zager at April 13, 2011 | 2:17 pm | 1 Comments
If the circumstances at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant were not so dire, one could have a comedic field day with Tokyo Electric Power Company [TEPCO] latest pronouncement. TEPCO, the operator of Fukushima, says it is formulating a plan to end Japan’s nuclear crisis.
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By Eric Zager at April 13, 2011 | 9:06 am | 1,295 Comments
In this edition of Rock The Capital Minute; a new study by a researcher at Cornell University finds that drilling for natural gas does more harm to the environment than mining for coal. Tokyo Electric says it is working on a plan to end the nuclear crisis in Japan, and Pennsylvania could have a new resort casino by tomorrow; at least on paper.
[...read more]Energy & Environment , Pennsylvania Issues , Political , RTC Media
Letter to Editor
By Rock The Capital - Admin at March 14, 2011 | 11:05 am | 2 Comments
With such intense focus on public employees pensions, a reader wants to know how come nobody is taking a look at the costs associated with managing the assets. Our reader took the time to put in down in black and white.
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By Eric Zager at March 9, 2011 | 9:50 am | 0 Comment
In this edition of RTC Minute; Governor Corbett unveils his first spending plan and there is enough hurt to go around, but critics contend the hurt will not be equally shared. The senate passed an expanded version of the Castle Doctrine. If it becomes law it will give people acting in self-defense more legal and civil rights, and the Bible is getting a makeover.
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Corbett’s Plan: This is Reform?
By Rock The Capital - Admin at January 26, 2011 | 4:28 pm | 1 Comments
Facing mounting criticism for appearing to brush off a campaign pledge to issue a “reform plan” his first week in office (a commercial said he would do it on “Day One”), Gov. Tom Corbett yesterday barely met his own deadline with a document that looks more like a campaign brochure than a carefully considered gubernatorial plan of action.
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By Pat Carroll at November 17, 2010 | 11:57 am | 65 Comments
Working night and day and weekends too, the crack researchers at rockthecapital.com have stumbled onto an amazing political scoop: Governor-elect General Tom Corbett’s series of handwritten Post-it Notes detailing his master plan to cut $5 billion in state spending, and balance Pennsylvania’s next budget. While the sticky has rubbed off some of these scribbled plans […]
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