Thursday, February 21, 2013

What I missed


I’m back in Pennsylvania after six wonderful days in California.  Six days of Morning Calls in plastic bags were waiting for me, and I read them all.  Here’s a sample of what I learned by perusing back issues.

It is good to have a Democratic Attorney General to stop Corbett’s giveaway of the lottery to the Brits.  Even Republican legislators were pleased with Kathleen Kane’s ruling.

A case is pending before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on the legality of the Marcellus Shale gas drilling law.  It’s a challenge to Act 13, which overrode local zoning laws.  I had not even hear of that case.

The four-year moratorium on shale gas drilling in New York will extend into 2014.  

You won’t need voter I.D. to vote in the primary, and if the court rules the way it should, you won’t need it ever.

Philadelphia charter schools are screening out poor and disabled students.  Really.  Who would have guessed?

Finally, 47% of Pennsylvanians polled said they would support armed guards in schools.  The pollsters did not ask how many citizens would support a tax increase to pay for the training and salaries of the armed guards.

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