Tag: Ed Rendell

How the Army Corps of Engineers Stays in Business

Filed in Delaware, National by on October 26, 2009 • 2 Comments

It comes up with loony projects, has them embraced by pork-loving congress critters, develops phony economic benefits analysis, and then plays hardball, using people like Pennsylvania’s amoral governor as its cheerleaders. Michael Grunwald wrote a brilliant 5-piece series for the Washington Post back in 2000 chronicling how, in one Corps survey, the Chessie ran east […]

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Sunday Papers: How ‘Fast’ Eddie Rendell Made Sure Budget Avoided Natural Gas Pains

Filed in National by on October 25, 2009 • 16 Comments

We all heard Gov. Ed Rendell’s (D-Comcast) lament that everyone had to share in Pa.’s budgetary pain, including the arts community, which was decimated by budget cuts while the big sports teams and movie theatres remained untouched.  His lips were moving, so everyone knew that he was lying. When it comes to the natural gas […]

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Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition

Filed in International, National by on September 20, 2009 • 6 Comments

LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now: At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were […]

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