Who are also somehow elected to the school board for decades- not sure a lot of us understand how much power are gifted school districts. It's pretty crazy.

Had one state rep office ( which shall remain nameless ) tell us " Basically school districts are like little kingdoms, they can do anything they want ". Found that to be true.

Wow sorry you posted a story we should all BE AWARE OF and got jumped!

Pedophile in our area was finally nailed, red flags all the heck all over the place. Guy's KID finally had to turn him in- worse, he was a medical ' professional ', company he worked for became hostile to his ex- patients probably bc they were worried about getting sued.

The more you report, the more we're aware. Has to be done.

Side issue, it's very very odd and a little scary. Around where I live there's this THING where teen mothers just aren't discouraged, amazing number of 30 something grandmothers psyched as hell their daughter is pregnant. You understand absolutely supporting your kid if it becomes necessary, this is way different. We're very rural, kids either leave or stay here and have babies.

Another reason to have ditched FB 10 years ago.

It's why a ton of formerly nice old towns have very ( very ) few young people left. They move away, educated or not because those towns become kinda ' ruled ' by a few rich old guys passing nutso ordinances .

One near us ( shall remain unnamed ) has some insane curfew, kids can't be out- as in walking on the dam sidewalk much less hanging out anywhere public after I think 9 ? May be 8 ? And please no one reply " But drugs! " " But vandalism! ". Drugs are there, of course they are- because simply everythingggg that used to keep kids engaged and positive has closed. Dealers know that- and happily provide a solution to depressed young people with almost no hope it's going to get better. The ones who can get out leave.

Place looks like a movie set, " cue deserted street in rapidly fading historic coal town ". After the apocalypse.

It seems that way doesn't it? Before this fiasco it simply never occurred to me this stuff would not be a matter of " Look! A crime! Look! There's the criminal collecting his hefty tax dollar funded salary and oh by the way, you have the proof ". Like to add this guy also had a connection and not a slight one with one of the most heinous child abuse murders in Harrisburg history.

It took a LOT of people both looking the other way and huddling behind a myriad obfuscating ' correct procedure ' dodges to pull off what occurred. I.e. nobody cares as you said.

Can't wait to see how many alarms were pulled on this guy before he was finally investigated. IF that part makes the news.

They can mock, he's still Fetterman. OH and a Senator. And genuinely doesn't care.

It's sincerely worrying. Had this like 5 year being-a-giant-pain in the ass running conflict with the Dept of Ed and anyone else tangentially responsible for our schools. And yes, we were GIANT pains. It seemed surreal there were simply 100% dead ends on complaints.

Get this. Finally some talking head there told me " If you don't like the way these complaints are handled, then legislate ". SURE? Pretty sure we have elected legislatures, how in hell is it our job?

Absolutely guarantee if anyone in government at the time uses the PA Reddit I just gave them a headache. And yes, it's me. Hi.

Husband retired environmental chemist said " Someone slipped someone a 20 ". Guessing that's pretty much the gist of the story.

One of the prettiest states in the country. And it's being sold off.

Between state and private land there's usually some restrictions, check them out first. Otherwise creeks and river banks and area around them- both have changed courses through the decades and centuries probably several times. What was once land is now water, vice versa.

Good friend is indigenous, not PA, west coast. She said it's important to be respectful when artifact hunting, I mean about their original owners. That makes sense to me.

And good luck!

Pennsylvania is a little odd about indigenous artifacts. On one hand we have a plethora of artifacts, on the other a refusal to acknowledge an indigenous, pre- contact or otherwise tribe. I think we're the only state that doesn't acknowledge even one.

It's a little baffling. Like our state borders were in place before Europeans got here along with the blue and yellow " Welcome to Pennsylvania " sign.

Meadowcroft is awesome for instance. Tons of ancient history here, wish it were possible to connect the dots without raising a fire storm of controversy.

Boy I don't know? I mean pedos thinking there's nothing wrong? There was a pedophile PA ( with a school superintendent playing a helpful role, also Pennsylvania- that guy wasn't accused although no idea why. He sure tried really hard to feed a kid to his pedophile buddy ) who literally plotted to get access to my kid. It was insane and more, we reported the buddy helper. To absolutely no response.

The sheer effort this pedo put in while trying to cover his tracks makes me think he certainly knew it was wrong. He's in prison the last I heard. Thankfully someone finally believed a victim.

I know you received some down votes, reversing one for the laugh out loud, outraging my poor husband, Erie grad.

NOW I have to go read more, thank you! Love going down history rabbit holes.

Oh no, not Erie! It won't go quietly though, too many Steeler fans.

Thank you! I could ( and should ) have looked it up, very good to hear the right history.

We have to be careful though. Wasn't Pittsburgh part of West Virginia? Don't wanna stir things up. I mean. Steelers.

This worries me horribly. Z's saved us and right outta the post election gate a Democratic President throws RR workers under the bus.

Someone on another thread for some reason said ' Well RR workers and their votes don't make up much of a percentage of the population ' , hence missing the point. Kids voted for everyone, not just to ensure they're personal demographic benefitted. Seems to me we got them out to effect change. And probably feel betrayed. Heck I sure as hell feel betrayed and I'm a couple generations older.

Wow? Grandfather was a civil engineer. Born around 1906. Water was always one of his concerns. He grew up in Colorado and Wyoming, worked ranches out there as a kid and through college.

I was too young to understand exactly why he was so alarmed but insisted as long as I knew him the next war would be over water. Hearing your prof say pretty much the same thing is chilling.

Exactly.

Oh, it's pretty clear roads are the last thing on the infrastructure budget. So 29 is a nightmare too? I know they've been ' fixing ' 78 through Berks for around 112 years now with no discernable end in sight, you have to watch where construction ends if you value your undercarriage.

Our nightmares here in Dauphin are 83 and 81, 83's probably worse since it runs at what always seems to be an unchecked 75 mph with like a foot clearance on either side. Don't get me started on bridges.

THANK you! So call the energy companies bluff, holy hell! Gas. Is. Here. No way in the furthest corner of hell will those greedy corps just leave. They'll bitch up a storm- then pay their dam taxes.

RIGHT? Once was downvoted into a black hole for pointing out there should be no such thing as a water bill. I guess by people who HAD a water bill but still found NOT having one an unreasonable concept. We have a well- it's possible to feel outrage over the fact water- like you said foundational to life to be a ludicrous outrage when it's monetized when no, I'm not personally affected.

We are however all in this Capitalist shambles together.

What I wanna know is how we got to the point of being held hostage for our WATER by corporations. Don't answer that- we know it's $$$$.

It's water. Without water there are no towns and cities, there is no society, water is probably THE most fundamental foundation to any society and I'm sticking to that.

Our taxes pay for roads (nothing to brag about here in PA anyway ),pay for most infrastructure. Water is infrastructure. Please no one go up the wall on ' more taxes '. Achieve it by taxing the rich, somehow immune to shouldering the same share we do.

What I love is the idiotic argument employed when making concessions keeping these companies in our state. You've heard them " Well if we tax them ( or whatever) they'll take their jobs elsewhere ". Sure?

Gas is HERE. What are they gonna do, tunnel in from New York?

So this statement gets me yelled at on a regular basis- like I just said THE most outrageous, nonsensical, ludicrous thing ever spoken.

I don't think there should be any such thing as a water bill. Like to add we have a well. It's possible to object to any aspect of society that sucks without having a personal interest. So hear me out please.

It's infrastructure. Infrastructure exist to support societies and are paid for through various taxes. Water is a fundamental, human need. We die without water. After that is hygiene. In the past death tolls were enormous when sewage ran in the gutters- unspeakable disease was the result hence municipal water systems developed and a level of hygiene commensurate with need was enforced.

There's more but you get the idea. It's not a matter of ' free ' ( and in fact the idea of ' free ' when it comes to basic human needs should be abolished ) no water, food or housing , no society. Without allowing of these basics the whole thing crumbles.

I'm not sure why that's such a crazy concept, water as a basic human right not a monetized commodity held hostage by corporations.

Jumping in to be bewildered why you seem to be collecting down votes for perfectly valid replies?

Hunting community used to be pretty supportive and chill.