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Marcellus Youth Jobs Forum a Success

October 25, 2011

TweetLast week, I joined with my colleague Rep. Brandon Neuman to host a Marcellus Shale Youth Jobs Forum at the Western Area Career and Technology Center in Chartiers Township. The purpose of the forum was to let local guidance counselors learn about skills and requirements kids coming out of high school may need to be [...]

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I Want My Three-Legged Stool Back

October 6, 2011

Tweet Informed public debate is a three-legged stool; in order to stay level, you need all three legs to be stable, equal and somewhat independent of one another. In this equation, the three legs consist of the elected officials, the public and the media— otherwise known as the people who make laws, the people who [...]

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It's About Preventing the Next One

January 12, 2011

TweetLike many Americans, I watched the coverage of the tragic attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that claimed the lives of six innocent victims, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl. In addition to the horror we all felt for the victims and their families, I could not help but examine the situation through my unique lens [...]

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From the mouths of others…

October 28, 2010

TweetAs the campaign winds through its final week, I have been blessed with some great endorsements I want to share with you. While I will be the first to admit that endorsements alone aren’t enough to win any election, and are no substitute for hard work by a candidate, I am proud to be recognized [...]

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"Mother must I distrust the government?"

April 21, 2010
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Tweet Interesting editorial in yesterday’s Observer-Reporter; a refreshing perspective you don’t get from the media (or anyone for that matter) very often anymore. Fear and loathing in Age of Distrust Observer-Reporter Every so often, a front-page headline will grab your attention, not because it states anything surprising, but because it expounds on the obvious. The [...]

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I got to say "boob" in the newspaper- cross another item off the Bucket List!

September 25, 2009

TweetI have a letter to the editor in today’s Washington Observer-Reporter. Here is the original letter that prompted my response: Voters put these boobs in office 9/20/2009 3:33 AM Let’s have a show of hands. How many of you believe that the date when the budget for the Commonwealth expires is a secret, revealed to lawmakers [...]

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"The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities… You know, putting sewers in Avella- that kind of thing."

August 31, 2009

Tweet Tremendous letter to the editor in today’s Observer-Reporter. 8/31/2009 3:32 AM What, no protests over sewers? “President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill couldn’t have come at a better time for a costly rural sewerage project in Washington County” (O-R, Aug. 28). Is this the same President Obama that some people have been depicting as [...]

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The Never-Ending Adventures of "Wonderboy" vs. the Evil Sewage Monster

January 29, 2009

TweetAnother day, another snub from the Cecil Township Municipal Authority. With the possibilty of recouping money spent on the Millers Run Sewage Project through the PA H20 Grant Program we passed in the Legislature last year, I decided to reach out to Cecil Township and their Municipal Authority by offering to help them put together [...]

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Deja vu all over again, and it smells funkier the second time around.

December 15, 2008

TweetSaturday’s Observer-Reporter carried yet another article about the ongoing problems with the Millers Run Sewage project in Cecil Township. This time, the Township is planning on holding financial workshops to help people with the $6,200.00 tap-in fee. Here’s the article: Cecil supervisors take on challenge of $6K tap-in fee By Amanda Gillooly CECIL – With [...]

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