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DAILY GRINDER: Marcellus Shale Set To Bring Jobs…Any Day Now

DAILY GRINDER: Marcellus Shale Set To Bring Jobs…Any Day Now

A new study on the Marcellus Shale—funded by America’s Natural Gas Alliance, so you know it’s got to be true!—found that natural gas-supported employment in Pennsylvania will grow 14 percent each year to 2015. A previous study found the Shale industry will fund 216,000 jobs by that year. A Pennsylvania State House bill was passed recently that would...

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DAILY GRINDER: Powder Sent to Sen. Toomey’s Office; Commenters Crack Case

A “Suspicious” white powder (which contained only cornstarch) was sent to Sen. Pat Toomey’s office and first noticed by an intern. Authorities are looking into it, but in the meantime, commenters at the bottom of this article are doing their damndest to figure it out. Very likely, according to them, the powder either came from Toomey himself...

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DAILY GRINDER: Bring On The Puppet Regime

Try to keep up: We’re one of the seven best beer cities in the country (whatever in God’s name that means), the fourth most romantic city and the second worst city in general for the half of the species that produces sperm. And we’re really ugly. [Esquire] Philadelphia-based U.S. Attorney Laurie Magid should be “disciplined” for fundraisers held...

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Camille Barnett Rakes in the Dough

City Managing Director Camille Barnett knows how to work her cash. She’s labored two-and-a-half grueling years in City Council, and now she’ll retire with a $50,000-per-year pension from you – the always giving, always loving taxpayer of Philadelphia. M. Nutt’s on the case, though. He and the Council goblins are making sure this kind of money never —...

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