Education Cuts: Keeping the Rabble outside the Gates
History tells us that patterns repeat themselves over and over again. Dress things up as we will with cultural and technological advances, we seem habituated to doing the same dumb things over and...
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In this edition of Rock The Capital Minute; as RTC's John Messeder learned when it comes to education there is no such thing as free. The EPA is in Pennsylvania doing more than just looking over the...
View ArticleThe Economy is on a roll, and the payoff for some is Huge
April, yes the month of showers, amounted to something more than measurable inches. The Labor Department out with its latest numbers shows that employers added about 245,000 people to their payrolls...
View ArticleA Surplus in Name Only
There is a passage in Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” that ought to be memorized by school children. It reads ““Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder...
View Article“A little rebellion…”
There is a chance Gettysburg Area School District could shut down at the end of June. OK, not a big chance, but still – a chance. About which more in just a moment. Monday night, the school board...
View ArticleRock The Capital Minute
In this edition of Rock The Capital Minute; Osama Bin Laden used computer disks to avoid being detected. In Japan, a plan is almost in place to start compensating thousands of people forced to evacuate...
View ArticleHow to care for a watch, or a nation, can be useful knowledge
The biggest problem with our education system is that too many of us don’t want to know how things are built and maintained, from a country to a watch … “When someone asks you the time, they don’t want...
View ArticleA Punishing Educational Curriculum
With the nation’s unemployment rate hovering about 10 percent, recent high school graduates are escaping reality by going to college, and college grads are avoiding reality by entering grad school. The...
View ArticleLabor Not Represented in Management of ‘The People’s Universities’
Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest university systems has...
View ArticleTom’s Top Twelve Tall Tales: Tale #10
Governor Tom tells tall tales. Here is Tom’s Top Twelve Tall Tale Number Ten – We don’t need no education. Awesome Floyd tune; awful policy. In this year’s budget, the Republican house, senate and...
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