Western Pennsylvania Democratic State Senator Wayne Fontana has been down this road before. In 2005 he first introduced a bill to clarify and strengthen the state’s mandated reporting requirements for suspected child abuse. He reintroduced...
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This afternoon, Penn State University came back to a familiar home field, but to an unfamiliar and heretofore unheard of set of circumstances. Just begun was a scandal for the ages. Just gone was...
Yesterday, the terribly ineffective U.S. Senate agreed on something, and astonishingly, it was a jobs bill, heretofore a non-starter. However, in a nearly unanimous vote on the “Vow to Hire Heroes” bill they agreed that...
At Tuesday night’s GOP debate, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo – obliquely – asked Herman Cain about his character given the sexual harassment claims against him. “I value my character and my integrity more than anything...
At the GOP debate on Tuesday night, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo asked Herman Cain about the well-known sexual harassment claims swirling around his campaign and character like a river around a boulder. Like that boulder,...
On Tuesday this week, Herman Cain held a press conference featuring Herman Cain. Herman Cain scheduled the event to explain Herman Cain’s take on the allegations continually surfacing about Herman Cain’s past sexual harassment of...
Livestreaming through Livestream.com of Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power, featuring Michael Moore; Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine); William Greider (Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall...
The Jerry Sandusky allegations have brought some unwelcome attention to Sports Illustrated writer, Jack McCallum. His 1999 article about Sandusky was mentioned, in passing, in the grand jury presentment. This week, Mr. McCallum wrote...
Here’s why the referendum, initiative, and recall exist. Even when the votes go against one’s hopes or interests, they at least allow for a definitive democracy to occasionally be exercised and heard, loud and clear. It’s true,...
