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Political Battle Chess is a Bad Idea for Pennsylvania

September 21, 2011

Tweet With the 2012 election just over a year away, Pennsylvania is poised to step into the national spotlight as a key battleground state. Our twenty votes in the Electoral College, coupled with a wildly diverse combination of urban, rural and suburban voters, make Pennsylvania arguably one of the top five important states in electing [...]

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Big Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

August 31, 2011

Tweet Pennsylvania was not spared from the destruction of Hurricane Irene, with 11 counties encountering heavy flooding and severe damage to property costing untold millions of dollars. Five people tragically lost their lives in the storm. As people began digging out and assessing the damage, Gov. Tom Corbett joined governors from the affected states in [...]

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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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"Change" is here. Now what?

January 21, 2009

Tweet “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” Those words were spoken by a hero of mine, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They personify a philosophy of government that I personally subscribe to; that when people need help, don’t [...]

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9/11: A Day to Take Off the Gloves and Hold Hands in Unity

September 12, 2008

TweetEarlier this evening, I had the privilege of speaking at the Annual 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at the Veterans Memorial in Eldersville, Jefferson Township. This is the second year in a row I have joined the community in a solemn remembrance of the catastrophic events of September 11, 2001. The main point of my speech was [...]

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