Reading around about the proposed stimulus package, I keep coming to this assertion that the value of the package is in what it would do for us right now. As in, we need something that’s going to break our economic fall; and the thoughtful conservative position seems to be that while many of the items […]

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So you’re in California, and you’re applying to the University of California. The 10-campus system is pretty hard to get into, and so you’ve taken college prep classes. But then you find out the university isn’t going to accept those classes; and you’re furious.
And, being furious, you sue.
But now, you’ve lost. Because a California judge […]

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Interesting mini-debate going on over at NewsLanc regarding our local libraries, in relation to this Era piece yesterday about how the number of people using the Duke Street library in particular has soared - up 15 percent in the first six months of the year, compared to the same period in 2007.
I can vouch for […]

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About two months ago Donegal High School was staging a career day, and wanted someone from the newspapers to come for the dog and pony show. I do a pretty mean dog and pony show, so I got the call.
I’d not been to the high school in years. And though I’d been reading about how […]

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Watching NBC last night, Thursday being basically the only night of the week I watch network TV, and then only because “The Office” is on and I’m usually too lazy to turn it off afterward. In any event, I had it on Channel 3 out of Philadelphia rather than WGAL, and I kept seeing this […]

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All I got to say about this is that if Pedro Rivera leaves after 2-3 years, there’s going to be an unprecedented explosion of anger in the School District of Lancaster, unprecedented even given everything that’s happened in recent years.
And there probably should be.

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