April 28, 2013

The Prez is in the house! WH Correspondents' Dinner on C-span. 8:14 pm ET.

Michelle looks beautiful, as usual!

UPDATE: C-span banner: Obama live at 10:15 ET/ Conan at 10:40 ET.

April 24, 2013

Thanks for posting this.

I read it in our local paper too. People here have been fighting this facility for two decades without any success.

Link: http://triblive.com/news/westmoreland/3888698-74/radiation-max-poister#axzz2RQM885Ey

This site is a couple of miles from my house.

April 22, 2013

I love that!!!

My students would love it!!! I hope I can still find this when school starts next fall.

April 19, 2013

Governor's press conference on now. 12:33 ET.

Gov. Patrick and Mayor Menino made short statements-- - stay inside, stay calm, proud of law enforcement.

Mass. State Police -- over 60 - 70% of search is complete. No apprehension yet. Controlled demolition scheduled for later this afternoon. Working on new leads.

Next briefing in about an hour.

April 15, 2013

Tweety just reported that the fire at JFK Library seems to be unrelated.

It was just a fire in a room.

April 13, 2013

Furloughing the teachers has paid off for Cor-butt.

State surplus may provide temporary relief for Pa. pension problems
About The Tribune-Review

By The Associated Press

Published: Friday, April 12, 2013, 8:57 p.m.

HARRISBURG — Smaller-than-expected payrolls for many school districts have left a surplus of state funds that could help ease Pennsylvania's public pension problems and also undercut legislative support in the first test of Gov. Tom Corbett's pension-reform agenda.

The state reimburses school districts for an average of 56 percent of their payrolls. If payrolls shrink, so do the payments.

In the year that ended June 30, $69 million of the state appropriation for school districts had not been spent. That money was earmarked for pension reimbursements, and the trend of shrinking payrolls appears to be continuing this year, according to the Public School Employees' Retirement System, the statewide school employee pension fund.

So lawmakers could have an extra $140 million to spend as they scrutinize competing demands for scarce dollars in the state budget for the year that starts July 1, rough estimates by PSERS indicated. System officials cautioned Thursday that the amount of any surplus this year could vary according to payroll growth during the next three months.

Read more: http://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/3832286-74/pension-state-surplus?printerfriendly=true#ixzz2QNgiOBgN


(I added bold.)

March 19, 2013

Solid liberal.

Only 14% of the public agrees with us, though. Not very encouraging.

Who They Are:

Highly politically engaged
75% are Democrats
Concentrated in the Northeast and West
57% are female
Best educated of the groups: 49% hold at least a bachelor's degree and 27% have post-graduate experience
A third regularly listen to NPR, about two-in-ten regularly watch The Daily Show and read The New York Times
59% have a passport
42% regularly buy organic foods
21% are first or second generation Americans

March 13, 2013

Too young for Medicare; too old for men to care.

(Old joke!) That is what I always say when some nosy whippersnapper asks my age.

March 10, 2013

Thank you for your post.

I live in SW PA (not too far from Somerset) and completely believe your account. At the time, I read everything I could find about Flight 93. Unfortunately, the truth will always be overshadowed by the myth surrounding the "official" accounts of heroics on board. The phrase "Let's Roll" makes me want to puke.

March 8, 2013

Studied harder and partied less in college.

Or maybe that was partied harder and studied less?

I made up for it in grad school though. I wish I had stuck with the doctoral program, but I was so damn sick of grad school by then and just wanted to have a life.