So where in your paradigm does personal responsibility, education, and abiding by the law fall in your undertaking of more social programs? Not being spiteful, honestly curious how we can spend more when so much seems wasted now. There are 501 school districts in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia comes in # 17 in spending per pupil. ($13283 per student) It ranks #450 in standardized tests. By any measure, that is a problem. There are an enormous amount of districts doing more successfully with far less money.
I get your statement that prisoner recidivism is a problem. It is.. but again the educational opportunities there are usually ignored or unused. I’m not necessarily against spending money, but throwing money at a situation with no results is not going to help. What we have done doesn’t seem to be working.

I’m pretty sure that rural democrats and republicans don’t give a flying f#^k about Philadelphia. Having grown up in rural Pennsylvania, just about everyone hated Philadelphia regardless of race, religion, or political party. I don’t think it has changed. If anything the contempt has grown. The most recent excited chatter on how Philadelphia is just an embarrassment to Pennsylvania was when Mexico used video of Kensington in an anti drug commercial in Mexico.

So Trumps first impeachment was an attempt to remove a sitting president?

The cops and FBI in Idaho are under tremendous pressure to solve this. If an arrest was made, it would be everywhere.

Above Hometown look at Stillcreek, Weatherly, Packer Township, Ryan Township, Rush Township.

Yeah..

If it’s Broad Street.. you want East Broad Street. Check out Lake Hauto. It has both Tamaqua and Nesquehoning addresses

Maybe they should have not voted for a dead guy… they could have had a write in. Also maybe we should require that anyone running for another office must resign their current elected office… You know.. actually make them face consequences…

No politicians are going to jail… that’s only for you or me. You know.. common taxpayers…

And banning property taxes are bad because?

Let’s add McCrory’s Ben Franklin, and JJ Newberry’s … All were 5 and 10 type stores. I think Newberry’ s and McCrory’s were started in PA.

They make billions on alcohol... The PLCB is the largest purchaser of alcohol in the US. It's an uphill battle.

Oh I agree. They will count them based on a current Commonwealth Court decision. But any challenges will end up in federal court after the election and the Supreme Court may vacate and overrule the Commonwealth decision

The race was over, the opponent conceded, and the winner was sworn in. The Supremes said it was moot to rule on this exact case but the 3 circuit was wrong in their reasoning. Our Commonwealth Court made the same ruling and that stands currently as law. After the election, it will be challenged by someone and while the state will count the ballots, when it is appealed to the Federal level, all bets are off and the state courts will probably be overruled.

Hey let’s cancel Christmas.. some kids don’t celebrate that…. Let’s see those administrators work for that week instead of staying home or going on a vacation. Yeah… I thought so…

Based on the US Supreme's decision today, it seems that our Commonwealth Court decision on minor defects being overlooked may be overturned after this election. My money is on the Supremes saying that you cannot ignore written law and ballot defects can be fatal flaws. It would support the current case before them that the legislature draws maps and the courts have no standing. I was surprised that Justice Kagan sided with the majority.

Brown and Sotomayor were the two, so Kegan sided with the majority .