Public Hearings on Expansion of PA Civil Rights Bill

The Pennsylvania House State Government Committee has set two public hearings on HB1400.

That bill extends the right to freedom from discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodation to include "sexual orientation" and "gender identity or expression".

The following public hearings are set on this important bill:

Pittsburgh
Date: Thursday, October 4
Time: Noon
Location: Cathedral of Learning (on the University of Pittsburgh campus)
Room CL 2017
5th Ave & Bigelow

Erie
Date: Friday, October 5, 2007
Time: 1 pm
Location: Raymond M. Blasco, M. D. Memorial Library
160 East Front St.

You can use this link to get the email addresses of your State Representative. HB 1400 has decent support, but it would be helpful for you to contact your representative and urge them to support the bill.

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Ding Dome Gossip

Faithful drinkers of this swill will recall that earlier this year we talked about hearing about talks about settlement talks in the Judicial ethics complaint against Luzerne County's only female jurist, Ann Lokuta.

We had heard from more than one source that Judge Lokuta was offered the option of retiring -- with full benes in place -- and that the Judge was seriously considering the offer. That story was shot down by the Judge's then-new attorneys. Now comes confirmation of the report, of a sort. The pretend newspaper in Scran'en last week "reported" confirmation that a deal was offered to Lokuta late last year, but that the Judge didn't grab it.

Yep, just like a broken clock . . . . .

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Dance Monkey, Dance

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Wannabe Journalist on Pretend Paper Ignores Ethics AND Inquiry

It was over a week ago that we ran a piece on how that piece of crap newspaper in Scran'en was ignoring the DeNaples stories.

In one of the pretend newspaper's articles, the paper mentioned a defamation award against the Citizen's Voice "and its parent company", which is that Scran'en paper.

We noted that, in keeping with the parent company's apparent policy of deception, the article failed to advise the readers of the Scran'en rag that they were reading the "parent company".

Being an inquiring sort, we penned a quick note to the reporter, so-called, and asked why he chose not to tell the readers that the CV parent was none other than the Scran'en Times. Dave Janoski's response after the jump.

Janoski's revealing reply, in full:

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Repugs, Week by Week

Senate 2008 Guru recaps, week by week, the 2007 exploits of them wacky Republicans.

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MoJo: Jesus, Hillary

For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of a secretive religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill. Is she triangulating—or living her faith? -- "Hillary's Prayer: Hillary Clinton's Religion and Politics", Mother Jones

"Through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as the Fellowship. Her collaborations with right-wingers such as Senator Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) grow in part from that connection."


The rest is here.

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