by Jane Richey | Apr 26, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Fiscal Responsibility
Children participate in a daylong event featuring a host of educational, interactive and physical activities during Take Our Children to Work Day April 25, 2013 at the Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Va. The program was designed to help the children of...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2013 | Health Care
Penn Manor School District Monday approved an agreement with Substitute Teacher Service to have STS provide 96 special-education classroom aides at district schools next year. Penn Manor also shifted its substitute teachers from the district’s payroll to...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
The Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act (S. 744)—commonly called the “Gang of Eight bill” after the eight Senators who came up with it, Charles Schumer (D-NY), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Michael Bennet (D-CO), John...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2013 | Agenda 21
On Friday, representatives from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, an industry advocacy group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that will seek to reduce the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions by 25...
by Jane Richey | Apr 25, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility
It is one of the oddest spending habits in Washington: This year, the government will spend at least $890,000 on service fees for bank accounts that are empty. At last count, Uncle Sam has 13,712 such accounts with a balance of zero. They are supposed to be closed....
