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On August 9, shortly before State offices in Harrisburg closed, Joe Sestak, Democratic Party candidate for US Senate in PA, filed a formal challenge to my election petitions for that same office. This was not unexpected and given the absurd requirements that third-party candidates must meet to attain ballot status, his challenge will likely be successful and I will lose my already state-certified ballot status for that position.  Read more

For the last few weeks, I have been astounded to hear from many of my fellow citizens who can no longer drink the water from their once clean wells, sleep at night due to the noise and light from drilling operations, let their children play on their own farms because of the danger of nearby frack ponds, and in some cases, not even able to live on their land now that drilling operations have started on neighbors land.  Read more

The assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla while in the open sea, in international waters, is an act of piracy and state-sponsored terrorism by the nation of Israel.  Read more

As of March, 2010, we continue to have a mortgage foreclosure rate of approximately 300,000 units a month with no end in sight.

Despite the claims of a “recovery” and despite the tax-payer funded bailouts of banks and investment firms there is scant evidence that there is any concentrated effort that will enable many hard working families to stay in their homes.

The landscape of our communities has become littered with repossessed homes which continue to destroy the social and economic glue that holds our neighborhoods together.

The banksters who created this human disaster, and were, unlike the homeowners, bailed out with taxpayers money cannot possibly use or sell these homes and show no interest in renting them out. And so these homes too often become broken down or vandalized and decrease the tax base and social fabric of our communities.
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