DAILY GRINDER: Green Guilt, School Vouchers, Private Booze

A new poll released yesterday re-iterates what the Pennsylvanian people overwhelmingly want: Private liquor sales. [Quinnipiac]

We barked too soon: Michael Vick actually will not be on Oprah “for unspecified personal reasons.” [Fox 29]

Can we get an Amen (eventually)? 476 is being widened to six lanes! And it will only take five years of construction before it happens, making driving on that road until 2016 a gigantic nightmare. [Morning Call]

Senator Anthony Hardy Williams, best known for conceding from the mayoral race before he could join it, then endorsing Mayor Michael Nutter in an outdoor ceremony drenched in awkward, is really, really into this school voucher thing. Oh, and to prove it, he’s comparing public education to…wait for it…Jim Crow-style segregation, of course! “Those who chastise me by injecting the civil rights comments that I do on occasion: separate but unequal is what we have,” he said. [State House Sound Bites]

Milton Street announced his official candidacy for mayor yesterday. Now he wants to debate Mayor Michael Nutter. Sounds like one of those things that plain old won’t happen. [Philly Clout]

And, a state senator from Montgomery County, John Rafferty, seems to have some of what we’re going to call – and we hope it catches on – “Green Guilt.” He’s reintroducing legislation that would require all government buildings to “go green,” which would include environmental building standards that are yet to be determined. Once determined, or, if you will, made up, people who pretend to know what “sustainability” and “urban farming” are will be very, very happy — at least publicly. Up next: Ban gluten! [PA Independent]

One Response to “ DAILY GRINDER: Green Guilt, School Vouchers, Private Booze ”

  1. [...] get the people on their side. The proposal is just one piece of the puzzle, too. There’s still a huge statewide majority that wants Harrisburg to privatize sales altogether as well as other crazy ideas being thrown [...]

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