Posts Tagged ‘ government ’

Metcalfe Memo March 2010 The encroachment of government continued during the month of March like lava from a volcano. The issue that dominated the attention of the media was the federal takeover of health care in the United States. I am a cosponsor of two pieces of legislation that we have introduced in Harrisburg...
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Pennsylvania joins Alabama, Florida, Nebraska, North Dakota,  South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington in a lawsuit to stop Obama Care. Source Reuters. The total number of states now planning on bringing suite to stop the Liberal health care reform bill is 38! What does that tell you about the popularity of our...
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Deer hunting Pennsylvania is teeming with wildlife especially when it comes to the white - tailed deer. This is so much so that the government had themselves set up a Game Commission to regulate the hunting of these animals.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting Reliance Said to Be in Talks With Atlas for Shale Gas BusinessWeek The talks between Reliance, which is controlled by billionaire Mukesh Ambani, and Moon Township, Pennsylvania -based Atlas are in preliminary stages, ... Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. Announces Gathering and Compression ...
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Washington Post Chavez: Twitter and websites may soon be blocked in Venezuela ZDNet (blog) Reuters is reporting that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez...
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Yesterday on Don Russell’s Beer Radar , he had the basic information on a second raid by the PLCB and Pennsylvania State Troopers. As promised, a fuller account was published today, with additional reporting by Bob Warner, in the Philadelphia Daily News . Here’s the account, entitled In Another Raid, State Police Hit...
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Blending biomass into the coal stream that feeds electricity-generation plants offers the opportunity to reduce harmful emissions and create a market for renewable fuel, according to a biomass-energy expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences . And Pennsylvania power-plant operators have a big incentive for co-firing coal with...
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The New York Times has some piquant details, including the fact that no sooner did Colleen Renee LaRose become a Muslim -- by simply reciting a line of verse (no tests and no waiting, just like getting married in South Carolina in the pre-war days)-- than all of a sudden she had very...
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The following is a White House transcript of President Obama's health care remarks in Glenside, Pennsylvania.   The President traveled to Arcadia University Monday to discuss his plan for health care reform. ********************************* THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Pennsylvania! (Applause.) Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. This is a nice crowd. (Applause.) Thank you...
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I was recently contacted by an owner of a website that tracks how Senators and Representatives in Washington have voted on the major issues of the day. It is a very interesting and easy to use down-loadable PDF for each state. Here is the link to how Pennsylvania Congressman have voted on the major...
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