Posted 10/26/07 by Megan Rhyne
Note: The governor
rescinded the policy Friday after the story broke.
I never thought of Pennsylvania as a particularly nutty place. You can’t get much more sober and sane than Philly’s Main Line neighborhoods, Pittsburgh’s serious steel making and the Amish, for heaven’s sake.
But the people running the state’s elections, bolstered by equally nutty folks at the state police, Emergency Management Agency and the state Office of Homeland Security, have lost their marbles!
Posted 10/22/07 by Megan Rhyne
Over the weekend, the Roanoke Times
reported that the Salem City Council took an expensive retreat to a West Virginia resort to talk city business in more comfortable climes.
Out-of-town retreats are nothing new. Though not particularly public-friendly to begin with, at least most local governments who favor these jaunts keep them close by or at least in-state. But a West Virginia resort?