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Justice is blind. At least, that’s what we’re told. But when judges’ rulings consistently align with the special interests that elected them — even to openly ignoring or rewriting the law — it’s pretty clear the blindfolds are off. This is what we’ve seen from our state Supreme Court. In 2015, the trial bar, unions, and Democrats spent more than $11 million in the most expensive state judicial elections in history at that time to sweep three open seats on the court and gain a 5-2 Democrat majority. - Advertisement - Since then, the court has issued rulings a...

Kevin Mooney AP Gov. Tom Wolf meets with the media at Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency headquarters May 29, 2020 in Harrisburg.   TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. On May 18, Pennsylvania voters will have the opportunity to overturn a state Supreme Court ruling that has enabled the governor to repeatedly extend emergency declarations without legislative input. Under current law, a governor’s emergency declarations can last up to 90 days, and can be renewed unilaterally for additional 90-day period...

I have often contemplated how I would define good leadership. A good leader knows how to surround themselves with trusted experts from many fields, consider their thoughts and suggestions, and formulate a plan of action. This type of leadership is lacking in Pennsylvania. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, all we see is a top-down, one-size-fits-all approach from Governor Wolf’s administration. Those experts around the table should be medical experts, emergency management personnel, economic experts, and those elected to represent you — your Legislature. Those experts ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Individuals often resort to familiar turns of phrase when asked to describe the events of 2020, and particularly the COVID-19 pandemic.  Some call it a catastrophe or a nightmare.  Others opt for something more idiomatic—a dumpster fire.[1]  Over the last year, civil litigants asked several courts to consider the fitness of one particular description: is COVID-19 a “natural disaster”?  In at least three cases, the answer was a vigorous “yes.” Nine months ago, we published an introduction to the concept of force majeur...

Because it just -- the dots don't line up and it's never happened like that before. so, as an investigator, we would never take that off the table. that stays on table as a possibility, but based on experience and knowledge of the systems, i would say that's very, very remote. and to do what richard said, to run around and try to inop all those systems, the pilots would see the cascading failures quickly. and with all the way to communicate, including the transponder, hitting the emergency code, they would have had enough time to get a message off that there was a problem. >> richard, what abo...