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July 24th, 2008Scranton’s on the right track with infrastructure investments
That’s nice to hear, now that I’m an official Scranton resident, again. Room to grow, things to fix, challenges to face, as always….
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Scranton’s on the right track with infrastructure investments
That’s nice to hear, now that I’m an official Scranton resident, again. Room to grow, things to fix, challenges to face, as always….
In late September, as [Alan Greenspan] spoke to a group of business executives in Massachusetts, a question was posed as to whether he’d like to see an increase in the federal gasoline tax, which has stood at 18.4 cents a gallon since 1993. “Yes, I would,” Mr. Greenspan responded with atypical clarity. “That’s the way to get consumption down. It’s a national security issue.” [emphasis added]
Mr. Greenspan isn’t the only Republican-aligned economist to have discovered, or rediscovered, a fondness for higher energy taxes since leaving government service. N. Gregory Mankiw, the Harvard economist who served as chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2003 to 2005, favored a higher gas tax before going to Washington, and has been banging the drum loudly for it since he left. On his blog, Mr. Mankiw has formed the Pigou Club, named for Arthur C. Pigou, the British economist credited with introducing the notion that taxes could be used to correct imperfections in the market. The roster of what Mr. Mankiw calls “economists and pundits with the good sense to have publicly advocated higher Pigovian taxes, such as gasoline taxes or carbon taxes,” includes some of the usual suspects — Paul Krugman, a columnist for The New York Times, and Al Gore, for example — as well as unusual suspects like Gary S. Becker, the economics professor and Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago.
Q: Want lower gas prices?
A: Drive Less!
“Immigrant Law” examined for Scranton, or, Hazleton, exported.
10/07/2006
Immigrant law in city explored
BY STACY BROWN, STAFF WRITERThere are 46 miles of hard road and heavy-duty truck traffic between downtown Hazleton and the heart of Scranton, but City Council President Judy Gatelli would have you believe that it’s a smooth ride for illegal immigrants.
Interestingly, Mrs. Gatelli has a strong voice echoing her contention that there’s an exodus heading north on Interstate 81 now that Hazleton has passed an ordinance that says businesses can not employ or sell goods to illegal immigrants and landlords can not rent to them.
“We’ve watched people pick up in the middle of the night and move away, and, from what I understand, they’ve moved to Scranton,” said Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who has found himself in the national spotlight since introducing the ordinance, which he recently signed. “If they were legal, they wouldn’t pick up like that and move.”
Admittedly, Mrs. Gatelli has neither hard numbers nor official estimates of the number of illegal immigrants in the city. However, she does have a feeling they are here, and she wants to do something about that.
“I have asked that we get a copy of Hazleton’s ordinance and review it because the illegal immigrants are coming here from Hazleton,” she said. “I know that they are doing this because I’ve spoken to some of them and have asked them where they are from, and they’ve told me that they’re coming here from Hazleton. (That) is wrong, and it must be stopped.”
Noam Chomsky is alive and well. And has reading plans for the weekend.
And people complain about my bookshelves.
sunni v. shia: a primer
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The good folks at Environmental Economics are grinning with glee as gas prices rise — not because they want everybody to pay more (well, not exactly), but because the economically-predictable is occuring: rising gas prices are making consumers run to public transportation.
I drive all over Lackawanna County, and beyond — but I really shoudl start looking more into our public transportation. The last time I checked their website I couldn’t find anything about routes, etc (and the local bus stop signs didn’t bother to mention what route was stopping there, either). But now there’s a PDF route map, as well as schedules.
Hazleton, PA approves illegal alien law
By a 4-1 vote, council passed an ordinance that bans illegal immigrants from renting property, punishes businesses that hires or “aids or abets” these immigrants, and makes English the “official” city language. [emphasis added]
I’ve got a question for you, Hazleton City Council: Why do you hate America so much?
After fighting a bitter war to ensure independence from England, our fore-fathers saw no reason to adopt the hated imperialistic English language as anything official in connection with Our Great Nation.
Why are you trying to so hard to disrespect their memory? You want English as an official language? Then go back to England, you bloody Tories!
