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'Fracking' brings prosperity, problems to Pennsylvania
Times are good these days at the Linde Corp., where despite a sluggish economy nationally, the company is on a hiring binge. The construction company, based near Wilkes-Barre in northeastern Pennsylvania, has seen its workforce nearly triple over the...
Tags: Edward G. Rendell, Natural Gas, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Executive Branch, Business Enterprises
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Proposed Perdue soybean plant is health threat
Claiming to help farmers, chicken-seller Perdue instead plans to pollute farmers, their families, farms, air, land, water, and food across Pennsylvania's Susquehanna Valley with toxic emissions from a proposed taxpayer-subsidized industrial soybean...Tags: YouTube, Google Inc., Perdue Farms
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Bay Foundation head: Will Sen. Pipkin be part of the solution?
I agree with much of what Sen. E. J. Pipkin wrote in his Baltimore Sun op-ed, "Is the Bay Foundation ignoring the threat behind the Conowingo Dam?" published on November 27. For instance the Susquehanna River, draining approximately 50 percent of...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Water
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To restore the bay, restore the bay partnership
When the Chesapeake Bay restoration program began in earnest in 1983, with the signing of the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement, it was hailed as the beginning of a new era of interjurisdictional partnering to save a national treasure. And so it was. With...
Tags: Richard Nixon, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Pollution, Edward G. Rendell, Executive Branch
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No collective punishment for Penn State football sins
Spare me. Spare me the calls to abolish Penn State's football program in the wake of findings by former FBI Chief Louis Freeh that Coach Joe Paterno and other men in power hid the crimes of child rapist/assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Spare me...
Tags: College Football, ESPN (tv network), Financial Aid, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012)
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SIG program gives schools chance to do things they've never done
For the casual visitor, it's easy to miss that Southeast High School in rural Kansas — once among the lowest academic performers in the state — is in the midst of a profound transformation. Like so many other Kansas schools, the building in...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Business Enterprises, Arlene Ackerman , Labor Markets
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Marcellus shale: What took millions of years to create merits a few years of study
The reaction from the petroleum industry to the notion that Maryland ought to look before it leaps into natural gas drilling was swift and predictable: Maryland is in danger of falling behind the pace set by other states in tapping the lucrative Marcellus...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Natural Gas, Chesapeake Energy Corp., Executive Branch, Movies
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Allentown School Board approves cutting 154 jobs
Allentown School Board approved a curtailment of programs Thursday that eliminates 132 teachers and 12 administrators, pushing the financially challenged district to more than 400 jobs slashed over the past four years. The district's second massive...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Allentown, Budgets and Budgeting, Students, Teachers
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It's going to happen
The rallies, lobbying and support from the community have paid off. Somerset County will have a new section of Route 219 between Somerset and Meyersdale. The final permit for the long awaited four-lane extension from Somerset to Meyersdale in Somerset...Tags: Government, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Executive Branch, Bill Shuster, Somerset County (Maryland)
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Two Somerset County businesses recognized with governor's awards
Daily American Staff WriterTwo Somerset County businesses received an award Thursday that recognizes Pennsylvania business owners' contributions to the state's economic development. Somerset Trust Co. and Global/SFC Valve, both based in Somerset, were among the companies...Tags: Regional Authority, Government, Hershey (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Business
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Tuesday showed 2014 is looking good and ugly
Capitol IdeasYo! Congrats to the House’s two newest members: Kevin Schreiber of York and Dan Miller of Allegheny County. Unofficial election results from Tuesday's primary show Schreiber takes over the 95th District and Miller the 42nd, both of which had been......
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