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Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2007
Lancaster County Transportation Plan Update Public Forums
The Lancaster County
Planning Commission is hosting three forums to provide the public with
an opportunity to directly shape long-term transportation priorities
and investments. Planning staff will be on hand to present a summary
of the county’s existing conditions, trends, and issues related to
transportation. Forum participants will be asked to consider such
things as:
• Current and future
transportation needs,
• Alternative future
transportation choices,
• Candidate project
priorities and investments, and
• Policies that are
supportive of the county’s growth management plan.
The three forums
listed below will be held from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at the following
locations:
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Monday
November 5
Southern Market
Center
City of Lancaster |
Wednesday
November 7
Manheim Central
High School |
Tuesday
November 13
Quarryville
Library |
Contact Micha Danaher at 299-8333 or
danahem@co.lancaster.pa.us
Friday, Oct 26, 2007
DREAM Act: Another Immigration Measure Goes Nowhere in Congress
Source:
McClatchy Newspapers
The Senate flinched
again Wednesday on the potent issue of immigration, refusing to
consider legislation that would've put thousands of undocumented
immigrant students on paths to citizenship.
By 52-44 — eight
short of the 60-vote majority needed under Senate rules — senators
effectively killed the DREAM Act after the Bush administration
announced its opposition to it. The bill's defeat came four months
after the Senate rejected more comprehensive immigration legislation
that the White House supported.
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Wednesday, Oct 24, 2007
Lois to Speak at WNDC Candidate Forum
Lois Herr, Senior
Editor of newPA16.com,
will be a member of a panel discussing "Lessons Learned from 2006 to
Forward Thinking in 2008". The Forum will be held in Washington, D.C.
and is sponsored by the
Woman's National Democratic Club.
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more...
Monday, Oct 22, 2007
Postpartum Depression Bill Passes House
original
source: Our
Bodies, Ourselves
Last week, the House
of Representatives passed the
Melanie Blocker-Stokes Postpartum Depression Research and Care Act,
which encourages research on postpartum depression and a public
awareness campaign, and authorizes $3 million to be appropriated for
these purposes in 2008.
After passing the
House on a 382-3 vote, it has been referred to the Senate's Committee
on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Three votes against the
bill were supplied by Republican Representatives Broun (GA) and Flake
(AZ), and Presidential candidate Ron Paul (R-TX).
An amendment was
added to the bill prior to passage by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) adding
abortion to the list of research topics which could receive some of
the alloted funding, as follows:
It is the sense of
Congress that the Director of the Institute may conduct a nationally
representative longitudinal study (during the period of fiscal years
2008 through 2018) of the relative mental health consequences for
women of resolving a pregnancy (intended and unintended) in various
ways, including carrying the pregnancy to term and parenting the
child, carrying the pregnancy to term and placing the child for
adoption, miscarriage, and having an abortion. This study may assess
the incidence, timing, magnitude, and duration of the immediate and
long-term mental health consequences (positive or negative) of these
pregnancy outcomes.
Pitts has
previously introduced legislation, including
a bill submitted earlier this year, focusing on mental health
after abortion. "Post-abortion syndrome" is a common focus of
anti-choice groups in their arguments that access to abortion harms
women, despite evidence that women choosing abortion do not suffer
disproportionately high rates of mental health issues. The New York
Times published a
lengthy examination of this topic earlier this year.
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Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007
Ghosts of Abu Graib
The Lancaster
Interchurch Peace Witness invites you to attend this film showing
hosted by our colleagues at Lancaster Church of the Brethren.
National Religious
Campaign Against Torture has distributed the Emmy-Award winning film
entitled Ghosts of Abu Graib.
Please join us at
the Lancaster Church of the Brethren 1601 Sunset Avenue Lancaster, PA
17601 on Sunday, the 21st of October from 4:30 - 7:00 pm to view the
film and share in the discussion to follow. We all should become more
informed of the US policies on torture. This topic is not an easy one
to discuss, but it is important that people of faith become informed
and take action.
Directions to the
church http://www.lancob.org/directions.php
Contact: Suzanne
Schaudel (schaudel@hotmail.com)
Friday, Oct 12, 2007
Congress Gets Something Done...
AFSCME Reports Progress from Congress
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U.S. House Defeats
Estate Tax Repeal
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U.S. House Vote to Stop Contracting Out
Tax Collection to Non-IRS Workers
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U.S. House Committee Approves Four-Year
Ban on New Internet Access Taxes
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Sen. Gregg Introduces Bipartisan Public
Safety Officer Collective Bargaining Bill
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U.S. House
Approves Federal Affordable Housing Trust Fund
Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007
Lancaster Women's Alliance Candidate's Forum
The Lancaster
Women’s Alliance presents "Candidates Night" will be held on
Wednesday, October 17 at 5:30 PM at the Press Room Restaurant.
View flyer...
Candidates to
present will include:
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Lucy Longo: Common
Pleas Judge
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Kathy Kravitz: Common Pleas Judge
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Margaret Miller: Common Pleas Judge
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Janice Jimenez: Magisterial District Judge
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Kathleen Harris: Lancaster City Council
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Mary Barninger: Columbia Boro Council
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Sandra Duncan: Columbia Boro Council
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Pat Coller: Lancaster City Council
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Molly Henderson: County Commissioner
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Mary Ann Gerber:
Register of Wills
Monday, Oct 8, 2007
Questioning Pitts’ Vote
by Bruce
Slater
Last week, 16
members of our state delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
voted YES to expand health care benefits for our nation’s children
with the S-CHIP program.
Three members of our
state delegation voted NO, and one of them was our own Rep. Joe Pitts.
I understand Joe Pitts’ loyalty to our president, but I must question
his motives after looking at his campaign financing.
According to the
politically neutral Web site
www.opensecrets.org, Pitts has received campaign contributions of
more than $412,130 from health professionals, the pharmaceutical and
health products industries, insurance companies and the
hospital/nursing home industries.
We the people of the
16th Congressional District can no longer afford this kind of
leadership offered by Mr. Pitts. But it is obvious the drug companies
and the health care industries can.
Bruce Slater is a
Democrat who has announced his candidacy for Pennsylvania's 16th
Congressional District, the seat witch Representative Pitts now holds.
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Friday, Oct 5, 2007
No
Fun Being A Republican
by Stephen Crockett, co-host of
Democratic Talk Radio
BB King said it best
when he sang “the thrill is gone.” It certainly is no fun trying to
defend Bush Republicanism going into the 2008 elections. Bush has
simultaneously radicalized and corrupted the modern Republican Party.
Unfortunately, the blight is bigger than the individuals running the
Bush White House. The corruption and resulting incompetence has become
institutionalized in the mechanics of the Republican political
machine. Read more...
Wednesday, Oct 3, 2007
One
Father to Another
by
Bill Adams,
father of Brent Adams
Mr. President:
I do not write this
letter to you as an American Citizen to the President of our country.
I write this letter to you simply as one father to another. A father
who is looking for the truth of what happened on 12/1/05 when my son,
Brent A Adams a National Guardsman for 17 years with the 2/28th Combat
Brigade based in Washington, PA, was killed in action.
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Sherry Wolfe of Lancaster,
Pa., stands in the crowd that came to hear President Bush speak to the
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Lancaster, Pa., Wednesday,
Oct. 3, 2007. Her T-shirt reads 'George Bush your war killed my friend's
son.' The back of her T-shirt reads 'Brent Adams Killed Dec. 1, 2005, Ramadi
Iraq. |
On December 1, 2005
at approximately 6:30 PM that dreaded knock on the door came from two
National Guardsmen who informed us of our son’s death in Ramadi,
Iraq. We were told he was killed as he drove his Bradley vehicle over
an IED in Ramadi. We were struck by grief so deep and wide that it
can only be understood by someone who has experienced it for
themselves. So when my wife and I watched the news the following
day, we drawn to the report of action in Ramadi showing a video
shot by the insurgents on the streets of the city on 12/1/05. It
showed them having free reign, firing an RPG, as well other hand held
weapons. We sat in shock as we watched and thought that possibly this
was some of the action that Brent was killed in. But, we were totally
confused when immediately after viewing the video, Major General Rich
Lynch appeared and strongly disputed reports of widespread insurgent
attacks in Ramadi on Thursday. He said there were no Americans killed
in Ramadi, Iraq on Thursday, December 1st and the video we had just
seen was a propaganda video made by the insurgents. He said one
attack, involving a rocket-propelled grenade occurred Thursday and
that it caused no damage or casualities. For an instant we had a
fleeting hope that possibly he was right and our son wasn’t killed,
some sort of mistake had happened. But deep in our hearts we knew
that this wasn’t the case.
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