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Slavery, Tokenism And The Atheist PR Debacle

Christian Piatt | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: American Atheists, Harrisburg, Atheist Fundamentalism, Atheism, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Tokenism, Slavery, Ethics, Christian Piatt, Christianity, Atheist Billboard, Religion News

We can all do better than this. Really. Fundamentalism is ugly and dangerous, regardless of it's religious stripe, or even opposition to it.

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Military Vets Deploy To Help Tornado-Ravaged Ill. Town

Posted 03.04.2012

Read More: William McNulty, Team Rubicon, Harrisburg, Video, How You Can Help, Illinois, Tornadoes Illinois, Tornadoes, Slidepollajax, Impact News

Two days after a tornado devastated a small town in Illinois, only one volunteer rescue organization was allowed to bring its team of veteran rescue w...

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The Short Way, Through Harrisburg

Joni Hirsch Blackman | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Thin Mints, Harrisburg Tornado, Road Trips, Girl Scout Cookies, Harrisburg, Harrisburg Illinois, Illinois Tornadoes, Illinois, Harrisburg Illinois Storm, Harrisburg Illinois Tornado, Tornadoes, Illinois Tornado, Fifty News

I didn't think I'd ever heard of Harrisburg, IL. When a tornado hit that small town and killed 6 people earlier this week, the name of the town 300 miles away didn't sound familiar. Odd, considering the few minutes I spent there were quite memorable.

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PHOTOS: The Priciest Airports To Fly Out Of In The U.S.

Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Harrisburg, Most Expensive Airports, Newark, Madison, Houston, Travel Tips, Cleveland, Travel News, Washington, Memphis, Airports, Cincinnati, Huntsville, Air Travel, Knoxville, Travel News

Cost has largely replaced distance as the measure of how hard it is to get around. Sure, Indianapolis is closer to Philadelphia than Chicago is, but t...

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SLIDESHOW: Top 10 U.S Cities That Donate The Most

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Harrisburg, Video, Greenville, Charity, Volunteering, Volunteer, Memphis, Minneapolis, Detroit, Salt Lake City, Washington DC, Do Good, Giving, Teen Impact, Impact News

Local market consumer research firm Scarborough Research released a study this week detailing the most generous cities in America -- and the numbers a...

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My Latest Preoccupation

Marian Salzman | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: U.S. Economy, Bankruptcy, State Pensions, Main Street, Rhode Island, Bernie Madoff, Harrisburg, Investing, Wall Street, New Jersey, Occupy Wall Street, Greece Debt Crisis, Detroit, Banking, Glass-Steagall Act, Pension Funds, Politics News

Ladies and gentlemen of the Preoccupied movement, allow me to redirect your attention to another location, because Wall Street is getting stale (word ...

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Where Will Innovation Begin in Higher Ed?

Jeff Selingo | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Harrisburg, Innovation, Student Loan Debt, College, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Harrisburg University, College News

Innovation can't just happen at new colleges. New ways of providing a college education need to be tested at existing institutions, but it seems many presidents, boards, and faculty leaders are afraid to be the first to do something different.

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Harrisburg Council Approves Bankruptcy Filing

AP | MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Municipal Bankruptcy, Business News, Harrisburg, Chapter 9 Bankruptcy, Harrisburg Pa Bankruptcy, Municipal Debt, Municipalities, Video, Business News

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's distressed capital city filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing "imminent jeopardy" from lawsuits related to a d...

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Smallest City In Smallest State Files For Bankruptcy

Posted 10.01.2011

Read More: Harrisburg, Bankruptcy, Wall Street, Governor Lincoln Chafee, Chapter 9, "The Big Ask", Economic Recession. Great Recession, Breckinridge Capital Advisors, Rhode Island, Central Falls, Municipal Debt, Business News

(Edith Honan) - Central Falls, Rhode Island, one of a handful of U.S. cities and counties facing fiscal collapse in the wake of the economic reces...

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Cash-Strapped City Rejects State's Fix, Keeping Bankruptcy Talk Alive

AP | MARC LEVY | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Mayor Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Harrisburg Bankruptcy, Pennsylvania Harrisburg, Harrisburg Finances, Harrisburg Budget, Linda Thompson, Harrisburg Spending, Business News

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The city council in Pennsylvania's financially troubled state capital on Tuesday rejected a recovery plan written by state-app...

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WATCH: Mayor Fasting In Hopes Of Solving City's Financial Crisis

Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Islam, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Judaism, Fasting, Christianity, Mayor of Harrisburg, Divine-Intervention, Linda Thompson, Business News

NEW YORK (Edith Honan) - Pennsylvania's debt-ridden capital of Harrisburg has tried every form of fiscal belt-tightening, from layoffs to furlough...

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Harrisburg's 'Bad Deal': City Forced To Pursue Parking Privatization

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 08.15.2011

Read More: America for Sale, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Economic Crisis, Chicago, Privatization, Business News, Chicago Parking Meters, Financial Crisis, Municipal Debt, Municipal-Debt-Crisis, Parking Garage, Business News

NEW YORK -- The finances of Harrisburg, Pa., are so desperate that local officials are considering a deal they fear will ultimately make the city more...

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Mother's Truth Inadmissible at Republican Show Trial

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

Instead of creating jobs and growing the economy, the Republicans are re-fighting the battles of a year ago and trying to take us back to the days when insurance companies had a stranglehold on our health care.

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Nielsen returns from missionary trip

Akron News Rep. | Akron News Reporter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elder Benjamin D. Nielsen of the Sterling Ward and Greeley Colorado Stake has returned after serving for two years in the Pen...

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Raymond Franklin Peake Killed Lawyer And Wanted Guns To Overthrow Government, Say Police

AP | By MARK SCOLFORO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond Franklin Peake, Harrisburg, Anti Government, Todd Getgen, Crime, Revolution, Overthrow, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Extremist, Thomas Franklin Tuso, Guns, Home News

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP)-- A prison guard accused of shooting a lawyer to death at a gun range told police he found the man dead and stole his rifle so it...

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After BP, Will We Have Learned Anything?

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepwater Horizon, BP Oil Spill, Harrisburg, Greenhouse Gases, Three Mile Island, Metrogreenbusinesscom, Green News

The good news is that the spill at the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has been plugged. Whether it will hold or not has yet to be seen, and what will ultimately be done with the well is also unknown.

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Rodent Infestation Closes Pennsylvania Capitol Cafeteria

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mice, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Hygiene, Safety Inspectors, Capitol, Rats, Food Safety, Safety Inspection, Cafeteria, Health Inspectors, Politics News

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Why is the cafeteria at the Pennsylvania Capitol infested with mice? Probably because health inspectors didn't visit it for fo...

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Little Butterball Holding Up Ice Cream Line

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARRISBURG, PA—According to witnesses who are sweating their nuts off, the line at the Baskin-Robbins is currently 12 people deep, thanks to......

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Area Mom, Jerry To Wed

The Onion | The Onion | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARRISBURG, PA—"You remember Jerry," Mom said in a long-distance telephone call to her youngest son, Daniel Schickele, 29. "He bought you that v...

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Nuclear Reactor Plans Spread Fear and Fission Along the Energy Coast

Dygest.net | Dygest.net | Posted 05.25.2011

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But as a string of vans bearing the names of soil analysis companies and then a host of Portakabins turned up at the tiny hamlet of Kirksanton, questi...

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30 Years After TMI, A Lesson For Today's Economists

Meathead | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Trust, Tmi, Pennsylvania, Nuclear Power, Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, Ithaca, Federal Trade Commission, Harrisburg, China Syndrome, Three Mile Island, Harrisburg-Pennsylvania, Business News

Our new test for any enterprise, be it a financial institution, a power plant, or a war, must be, "Is it too large to be allowed to fail?" If the answer is "yes" then we cannot proceed.

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