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Rendella the Hun looting and pillaging the public coffers
Posted on September 9, 2010 | No CommentsJust when you start to think it’s almost over and Governor Fast Eddie Rendell can’t spend us much further into the hole, along comes R.J. Harris to explain how he’s going to be into the taxpayers for $400 grand a year for the rest of... -
Fees a Marcellus Shale cost of doing business; severance tax remains a bad idea
Posted on September 7, 2010 | No CommentsDemocratic candidate for Governor Dan Onorato is looking for something to chip away at Republican Tom Corbett’s lead in the polls. Onorato will accuse Corbett of flip flopping on a no tax pledge over the issue of whether or not fees were included in the... -
The Chris Christie effect; are other Republican politicians starting to get it?
Posted on August 28, 2010 | No CommentsIt is well documented that to date New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie has been an in your face, kick ass and take names, I don’t care if don’t get reelected, cut government spending kind of guy. The question is when and if the Christie... -
PA legislature; working hard to spend your taxes
Posted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsThe Pennsylvania state legislature is as out of control as the U.S. Congress when it comes to spending our tax dollars on staff. Certainly not on the scale that Congress pours our tax dollars down a rat hole but it is the same general disregard... -
Bloomberg endorses Sestak and who cares?
Posted on August 18, 2010 | No CommentsWhat is supposed to happen when a New York Rino turned Platypus endorses a Pennsylvania Donkey for the U.S. Senate? Seriously, who is Joe Sestak trying to appeal to with this latest bonehead move? First he beats Rino Specter turned Donkey in the primary and... -
Public education; the energizer failure that just keeps on costing, and costing, and costing…
Posted on August 10, 2010 | No CommentsIs our system of public education failing the citizens of the United States? If outcomes such as being able to improve reading and math scores, insuring that a high percentage of those entering their freshman year of high school go on to graduate, and students... -
Forget Marcellus Shale; let’s turn Pennsylvania into a wildlife preserve
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsLet’s just be done with it and make the state of Pennsylvania the ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) of the east coast and a ward of the federal government. After all why would the good citizens of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania want to see their... -
A Management and Process Look at PEC’s Marcellus Shale Report
Posted on August 2, 2010 | No CommentsThe most enlightened policy and well thought out regulations are not worth a tinker’s damn without sound management and work processes and procedures that are faithfully executed. Reading the Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC) report “Developing the Marcellus Shale” it occurred to me that there is... -
Environmental justice and the EPA’s “new look” at regulating Marcellus Shale
Posted on July 29, 2010 | No CommentsIf you thought having the EPA’s pent up progressive “regulate them till they bleed” agenda unleashed on Pennsylvania’s infant Marcellus Shale natural gas potential was bad, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. I have not had time to review this entire document yet but the new... -
Will EPA strangle the Marcellus Shale golden goose with red tape?
Posted on July 22, 2010 | No CommentsWhen something smells like two day old fish, it may not be fish but it’s probably not good. The stench coming from the headline “Endangering the Water?” on the front page of the newspaper caused me to suspect something rotten so I held my nose and...