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Pond Lehocky Stern Giordano issued the following announcement on Jan. 11.
Pond Lehocky named Melissa Chandy, Frank Ciprero, Kevin Harchar, Andrew Ruder and Keld Wenge as partners effective January 1, 2021. They join the leadership ranks of Samuel H. Pond, Jerry M. Lehocky, Thomas J. Giordano, and Stephen R. Miller as seasoned professionals and longtime advocates for clients.
Chandy and Ciprero have been with the Firm since its inception in 2010. Harchar has made Pond Lehocky a house-hold name in the Scranton area growing the firms reach in Pennsylvania. Ruder and Wenge have been fighting on behalf of thousands of Pond Lehocky clients since 2012 and 2013 respectively.
WASHINGTON (RNS) When President Joe Biden took the oath of office on Wednesday (Jan. 20), he became only the second Catholic president in U.S. history.
But when he marched off the Capitol grounds later in the day, he reentered a much larger group: a peculiar, hyperpolitical faith community that makes the nation’s capital one of the most active and ardent Catholic centers.
Those believers who live in what locals call “the District” are a complex, multilayered web of cardinals and other churchmen, politicians, professors and everyday Catholics who also happen to regularly rub elbows with the most powerful people on the planet. It’s a community Biden has known for decades, but one that already looks markedly different from when he left the vice president’s official home, Number One Observatory Circle, to return to his home state of Delaware just four years ago.
Scientists have combined NASA data and cutting-edge image processing to gain new insight into the solar structures that create the Sun s flow of high-speed solar wind, detailed in new research published today in The Astrophysical Journal. This first look at relatively small features, dubbed plumelets, could help scientists understand how and why disturbances form in the solar wind.
Panelists in webinar address concerns raised over vaccines and fetal cell line
Jan 17, 2021 catholic news service
A man at the New York state COVID-19 vaccination site, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, receives a dose of the coronavirus vaccine Jan. 13, 2021. (Credit: Brendan McDermid/Reuters via CNS.)
Participants in a Jan. 14 webinar sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America discussed concerns raised by some over a fetal cell line being used in some phase of COVID-19 vaccine development but concluded the cell line is probably sufficiently removed from the original evil to ameliorate Catholic apprehensions.
Guns in the News: DeWine and Ohio’s Self-Defense LawRick Sapp
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01/16/2021
There’s some good news coming out of the Midwest that pertains to Ohio’s self-defense law. Republican Gov. Mike DeWine recently signed SB 175 into law on Jan. 4, 2021 (effective April 6, 2021). This “stand your ground” bill expands the locations at which a person has no duty to retreat before using force under both civil and criminal law.
“I have always believed that it is vital that law-abiding citizens have the right to legally protect themselves when confronted with a life-threatening situation,” DeWine wrote after he signed the bill. “I expressed my support for removing the ambiguity in Ohio’s self-defense law, and Senate Bill 175 accomplishes this goal.”