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Sen. Ernst Demands Agencies Stop End-of-Year Spending Sprees She expects a repeat of that performance come September. “The federal government ends every fiscal year with a mountain of unspent money. The total for last year added up to more than $800 billion! And 2021 is expected to be nearly the same, with all of that taxpayer cash sitting idle and for no purpose,” Ernst said in a statement naming the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the latest recipient of her monthly Squea...

Close North Penns school board members view testing data showing results from the Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School that show results in green where student successfully met state testing standards, and in red where they did not meet state standards, during the board finance committee meeting on Sept. 8. Inset from top to bottom are district Director of Business Administration Steve Skrocki, board members Cathy Wesley and Tina Stoll, assistant business director Kristin John...

Steve writes about the consequences of an online sales tax. » More The entire May 2018 New York party group. Thank you all for helping Jim launch The 3rd Ingredient! Davonna Blasingame, Brain Trust member Bill Brandt, Jim Blasingame and Patrice Brandt take a moment to pose for a picture at the New York party in May 2018. New York party guests share their thoughts about The 3rd Ingredient. New York party guests listen intently to Jim as he explains The 3rd Ingr...

Steve writes about the consequences of an online sales tax. » More The entire May 2018 New York party group. Thank you all for helping Jim launch The 3rd Ingredient! Davonna Blasingame, Brain Trust member Bill Brandt, Jim Blasingame and Patrice Brandt take a moment to pose for a picture at the New York party in May 2018. New York party guests share their thoughts about The 3rd Ingredient. New York party guests listen intently to Jim as he explains The 3rd Ingr...

The state Supreme Court is requiring the state Department of Corrections to pay legal fees to the Herald-Standard after the justices found the agency acted in “bad faith and willful and wanton behavior” in its response to the newspaper’s open records requests several years ago. The decision Tuesday upholds a previous lower court ruling from 2018 that the DOC should pay $118,458 in legal fees to Uniontown Newspapers Inc., the newspaper’s parent company, for costs associated w...

The company has agreed to pay a penalty of $1,337,365. EPA found that Crowley failed to install vapor emissions controls on the gasoline storage tanks and loading rack at its Juneau terminal in violation of the Clean Air Act. As a result of operating the Juneau terminal without the required controls, EPA estimates that 110,000 pounds of excess gasoline vapors escaped to the environment. Gasoline vapors are a known source of benzene, a known carcinogen, and toluene, which is a central nervous sy...

2020 has revealed the strange paradoxes of our time. We can develop a vaccine for a global pandemic in less than a year, but one little hiccup in the supply chain, and it’s easier to find water in the Sahara than to find toilet paper at Safeway. This year has also provided ample time for self-reflection: What are we getting wrong, and how can we excel at what we are doing well? Successful people ask themselves that question routinely. Shouldn’t our government ask itself the same thing? The ...

Defense Policy Bill Includes Bipartisan Provision for Greater Transparency on Federal Spending The bill will create a central inventory of spending information, which good government groups say is overdue.   The annual defense policy bill, approved last week, included a bipartisan provision that will require federal agencies to be more transparent about the performance and costs of their programs. The House and Senate both passed the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act last week wi...

police say the protesters pelted them with rocks, improvised explosive devices and burning flares. in return, officers used tear gas and smoke grenades on the crowds. look at the video there. now we go to atlanta, a very bold move. an occupier spray paints an anarchy sign right on the window after a police preseinct. in the nations capital, the clock is ticking on occupiers near the white house. police say leave or end up in hand cups. on friday, park police put up a notice, telling oc...