Tag: Pennsylvania

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Don’t insert ads disguised as testimonial into any conversations anywhere!

2024-06-26

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Running nursing homes like a business is a safety hazard.

2024-06-24

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Newspaper clipping: The Philadelphia Inquirer. Healthy schools. A recent op-ed rightly highlighted the financial barriers to becoming a Pennsylvania teacher. However, the state should also prioritize tackling airborne viruses in schools, which are now hazardous workplaces due to the spread of COVID-19, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and influenza. The CDC found that students were the main driver of COVID transmission during the initial reopening phase, endangering their health and that of their teachers. Insufficient air filtration and poor ventilation in buildings and buses are at the core of this problem. In 2023, the governor budgeted $500 million to reduce environmental hazards, which could be used to update school HVAC systems. Federal American Rescue Plan funds are still available. Inexpensive HEPA or Corsi-Rosenthal filters should be placed in every classroom, and opening windows encouraged. Let’s not tolerate sick schools anymore. If we literally clear the air, we can help attract quality teachers and protect the health of our kids. James G. Lertola, Pennsylvanians Against COVID, Kennett Square

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Pennsylvanians Against Covid Letter to the Editor published in The Philadelphia Inquirer about pandemic barriers to attract people to the teaching profession.

2024-06-24

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A Long Hauler Redditor.

2024-04-30

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Many references to “climate engineering” are actually a part of climate denial & disinfo narratives.

2024-04-19

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Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The Strength of Weak Ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. doi:10.1086/225469 Imagine, to begin with, a community completely partitioned into cliques, such that each person is tied to every other in his clique and to none outside. Community organization would be severely inhibited. Leafletting, radio announcements,or other methods could insure that everyone was aware of some nascent organization; but studies of diffusion and mass communication have shown that people rarely act on mass-media information unless it is also transmitted through personal ties (Katz and Lazarsfeld 1955; Rogers 1962)

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Journalist thinks covid is no longer political — just “trusts” right-wing covid denial.

2024-04-03

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Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. A tent lit in pink and another lit in red under a tree line silhouette under a starry sky showing a portion of the Milky Way seen in a night sky at Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania. July 1, 2019.

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It’s Dark Sky Week & there’s a light pollution debacle in Scranton Pennsylvania.

2024-04-02

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Authoritarians on the left are stifling debate Editor: I agree with the premise of Steve Corbin's column that "several groups... in conjunction with political parties... and politicians are trying to silence you and me via multiple measures" ("Maintaining democracy is not a spectator sport," March 6). They came for parents who spoke out at school board meetings calling them "domestic terrorists." They called you xenophobic when you supported a secure border, but when a busload of immigrants shows up in their backyard, they're put on the next bus out of town. They came after "radical" Christians and spied on them and shut down worship services during COVID lockdowns but allowed hordes of BLM and ANTIFA rioters in multiple cities to burn, loot, injure and destroy without consequences and even raised bail for these criminals. They silenced anyone that spoke out against their climate change dogma. Public health officials targeted Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and others that had opposing views on COVID. They lied and tried every dirty trick in the book to overthrow a duly elected president including a phony dossier, a Russian collusion hoax and two sham impeachments. They wasted tax dollars on a special counsel full of Trump-hating lawyers and found nothing and yet none of those DOJ, CIA and FBI liars were held accountable. They covered up Hunter Biden's laptop and Tony Bobulinski's story prior to an election to save their candidate. They convened a kangaroo court of anti-Trumpers called a Jan. 6 Commission and put on an orchestrated show for the public but failed to prosecute the killer of unarmed Ashli Babbitt. State attorneys general who campaigned to "get" Trump filed multiple lawsuits obviously to interfere with the election. Now state attorneys general acting as judge, jury and executioner are trying to keep their political opponent off the ballot. Get out and vote on Nov. 5 so America can shut down this "dictatorial-authoritarian control." Bill Gelatka WEST PITTSTON (Times-Tribune, Letter to the Editor March 14, 2024 Scranton Pennsylvania)

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Pointless Great Barrington Declaration b.s. in a letter to the editor in my local newspaper.

2024-03-30

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How about let’s take the temperature down on the rhetoric?

2024-03-29

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Geisinger Healthcare System to nurses: “Work sick!”

2024-03-14

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View of the Keystone Landfill garbage dump mountain in Dunmore seen from across the Lackawanna River valley to the west in a field off the Leggetts Creek Greenway Trail in the Marvine neighborhood of north Scranton Pennsylvania. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. June 9, 2017. It’s a bright day with low puffy cumulous clouds in the sky. The dump is seen as a bare earth set of hills set against the tree covered mountains behind it, and trees and tall grass is in the foreground, with the steeple peaking up from the valley among the trees from the church on University Drive in Dunmore, and the Dawson Building at Penn State Scranton Campus in Dunmore Pennsylvania, on the left.

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The Dump Stink.

2024-03-08

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School voucher paradoxes

2024-01-19

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Pennsylvania about to allow tire burning to make cryptocurrency.

2023-12-28

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The image is 2 photos, one is of a man in a baseball cap, black leather jacket and tan cargo pants standing in a museum among life size statues of people including a shabbily dressed man with a duffle bag, trench coat and golf cap looking tired, another statue of a man in light blue overalls and a red scarf and train conductor hat standing straight back against a wall, and the third statue is of a businessman leaning back against a wall all in a black top hat, black long coat, black pants, black boots, a white shirt with a black tie, wearing white gloves and holding a black cane, and looking downward. Next to the top hat man is a yellow sign the image includes a closeup of the yellow sign which has a one line quote from J.P. Morgan saying I owe the public nothing. The caption on the image says Steamtown National Historic Site Scranton Pennsylvania USA. November 10, 2013. Photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert.

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Christmas movie propaganda, job creator myths, and “sides” in perpendicular axis

2023-12-25

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The problem is, we’re not post pandemic.

2023-12-03

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Covid contrarian trucker offers charity infection control supplies.

2023-11-18

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Public comment at PA DEP environmental justice meeting

Public comment at a public meeting of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

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Leggetts Creek Flood

2023-09-14

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Anti-mask Woke-washing

2023-08-31

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Dear Public Officials: Stop falling for the myth of an irrational panicked public

2023-08-25

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023 photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. Picture is a photograph looking downhill on a residential street with a brown haze over everything and visible smoke in the air against the backdrop of houses and trees and telephone poles, and mountains in the distance.

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The push against public health is all part of the same problem: profiteering on a wrecked living environment.

2023-06-12

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023 photo by Chloe Kaczenski Humbert. Picture is a photograph looking downhill on a residential street with a brown haze over everything and visible smoke in the air against the backdrop of houses and trees and telephone poles, and mountains in the distance.

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Canadian wildfire smoke in Scranton Pennsylvania USA on 6 June 2023

2023-06-06

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