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Maybe Reading Isn't So Fundamental After All

December 8, 2009

Tweet Well here’s a new one. We were on the House Floor today, preparing to discuss SB 711, which is the bill that will legalize table games in Pennsylvania. Suddenly, a Republican representative made a motion to have the bill read aloud on the House Floor before we could move on. On its face, this [...]

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"They called her 'shaghala,' or servant. Their five children called her 'stupid.'"

December 29, 2008

TweetThis article makes you really think about the world that’s going on around us and how easy it is to get lost in the minor details of our daily lives. How could this be going on in America today??? Child maid trafficking spreads from Africa to US By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI – 3 hours ago IRVINE, [...]

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I'll do windows too if it will get me extra credit.

January 23, 2008

Tweet This past Sunday morning I was at my computer, engaged in my weekly ritual of reading the local papers online when I stumbled across an interesting column in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The column, by State Capitol Reporter Brad Bumstead, is entitled “‘F’ is for failed freshmen“, and it goes on to discuss how [...]

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Christmas Trees and Pie…

December 24, 2007

TweetThis never fails to make me laugh. Merry Christmas, everyone.  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSuk-XSFMFc] TweetScridb filter

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Ralphie

December 19, 2007

Tweet Many constituents who have come into my office have wondered why I sometimes call my Communications Director by the incorrect name of Ralphie (his real name is Nick Gerek). With this being the season of A Christmas Story, I think the photographic evidence speaks for itself. And yes, he did have glasses like that when [...]

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What We Accomplished in the State House This Week

December 6, 2007

TweetI’m not even going to bother explaining. Go read it in the paper or something. TweetScridb filter

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"Two hour delay, no morning committee meetings."

November 14, 2007

TweetWe weren’t able to hold any votes up here in Harrisburg yesterday because the giant electronic board that displays information about the current bill as well as our votes was malfunctioning. As a result, there wasn’t much choice but to adjourn the House until they got it fixed. As I was walking back to my [...]

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Gummy Brains? Really, PHEAA? Flipping Gummy Brains?

November 5, 2007

Tweet Will it ever end, PHEAA? Will it ever end? According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PHEAA spent $2.2 million over the past five years on promotional materials, including 150 brass clocks at $22 each, $30 L.L. Bean jackets, 3,000 peppermint candies with its logo on the wrapper and $3,400 worth of gummy brains candy. $3,400.00 [...]

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"I Smell Platinum."

November 1, 2007

TweetEarlier this week, singer/entertainer Robert Goulet passed away from complications while awaiting a lung transplant. Although I was too young to experience him in his heyday, I always loved his willingness to have a little fun at his own expense. He knew how to bring it in a wonderfully bigger-than-life way. There were some fantastically [...]

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I just threw up in my mouth a little. Thanks, PHEAA.

October 24, 2007

Tweet While the good folks over at PHEAA were too busy signing their bonus checks and slapping one another on the backside for their unparalleled standards of excellence, they also managed to find another way to screw over students in Pennsylvania. It was reported this week that PHEAA is cutting funding on certain state programs [...]

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