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Suppress, Suppress, Let’s Suppress This Mess
If you haven’t been following the voter ID fight in Pennsylvania, let me fill you in: it’s stupid. Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law is being litigated in court as we speak, but Pennsylvania never investigated whether voter fraud (the central rationale for ID laws) actually exists, so the state simply…
Voter ID law could bar 43 percent of Philly voters
Under Pennsylvania’s harsh new voter ID law, as many as 20 percent of voters in the state lack the photo IDs required to cast a vote, an estimated 1,636,168. In Philadelphia alone, however, 437,237 people, a whopping 43 percent of the voting population, may be ineligible to vote under the…
Scranton, Pennsylvania cuts cops pay by 70 percent
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — Public workers in the hard-up US city of Scranton, Pennsylvania have had their pay slashed to minimum wage-levels as a budget fight between the mayor and city council comes to a head. About 400 municipal workers in the city — including police officers, firefighters and construction workers…
Catholic official found guilty of covering up sexual abuse by priests
By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania — A Philadelphia monsignor became Friday the highest-ranking US church official to be convicted over a child sex cover-up, as he was was found guilty of endangerment. Monsignor William Lynn, who served as secretary of the Philadelphia Archdiocese from 1994 to 2001, was acquitted of…
Republican state senator’s stall tactics helped Jerry Sandusky’s defense
While entire world may seem against Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach on trial for molesting 10 boys over the course of 15 years still has some very important people on his side: the slow-moving legislators of Pennsylvania. Despite efforts by some legislators in the wake of the…
Trailer park residents battle eviction by fracking industry
The residents of the Riverdale Mobile Home Park in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania are fighting to prevent their eviction by a water withdrawal facility serving the “fracking” industry. The conflict has been ongoing since last February, when the owner of the land on which the trailer park is situated sold it…
93-year-old woman suing Pennsylvania over voter ID law
Viviette Applewhite, like many elderly Americans, does hot have a birth certificate or a driver’s license. The 93-year-old grandmother is suing the state of Pennsylvania over its harsh new voter ID law, according to Think Progress. Applewhite said she has voted in every election since she voted for John F.…
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 9/11 co-defendants to be arraigned today at Gitmo
The self-confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and four co-accused were due to be arraigned Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, with all facing the death penalty if convicted. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants will be formally charged in a military tribunal with planning and executing the September 11, 2001, attacks…
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett Thinks State-Sanctioned Rape is ‘The Way to Go’
About a month ago, the Pennsylvania House tabled Pennsylvania’s disastrous transvaginal ultrasound bill (HB 1077). In many ways, HB 1077 is even worse than the original transvaginal ultrasound bill proposed in Virginia. At the time, I wrote the following about an article in Think Progress discussing the bill: The Think Progress article…
U.S. candidate Santorum’s daughter leaves hospital
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will resume campaigning on Tuesday after his daughter was released from hospital and returned home, his campaign said. “Rick and Karen are happy to announce that their daughter Bella has been discharged from the hospital and returned home earlier Monday evening,” spokesman Hogan Gidley said in a statement.…
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