PSoTD

I would say that Lower Mount Bethel is the only township of this bunch showing any common sense.

Supervisors in Washington Township, Northampton County, have approved an ordinance restricting where convicted sex offenders can live.

The supervisors voted 3-0 Wednesday night to adopt the ordinance, which prohibits sex offenders from living within 1,500 feet of child care facilities, community centers, and any other place where children might congregate.

The township is the third community in the Slate Belt to pass such an ordinance. Upper Mount Bethel Township created one last month, while Bangor and East Bangor adopted theirs last year. Lower Mount Bethel declined to restrict where sex offenders can live, but has an ordinance that requires the township to be notified if an offender moves to the township.

Places where children might congregate:

Parks
Fast Food Restaurants
Stores
Libraries
Churches
Public Events
Empty Parking Lots

This is EXACTLY why the whole Big Ten Network thing is BS. Focus, Penn State, on what your mission is, and quit carrying the water for this tinhorn sports network in negotiations with Comcast.

I just think this whole thing is crap.

A Penn State trustee Tuesday called for township supervisors to back the Big Ten Network in its standoff with cable television provider Comcast, and a working group of municipal officials plans to meet today to strategize against what township Manager Mark Kunkle called "a monopoly that operates in the township."

George Henning, a Ferguson Township resident, Planning Commission member and Penn State trustee, urged the supervisors to "ask Comcast as strongly as we can to include the Big Ten Network in their cable package."

Board of Supervisors Chairman Dick Mascolo replied that "there's no question that we'll do our best."

Henning said he's urging residents in the seven other municipalities that have given a cable franchise to Comcast to lobby their own local governments to support the Big Ten Network, though he said at one point that the new network and Comcast are "two big groups fighting" and "a pox on both of them."

Interesting article about the Utah mine owner, Bob Murray. in The Athens News, reviewing some of Ohio's experiences with him.

Apparently Murray put out a press release recently because of all the press he has received for his pugnacious media appearances.

Murray's most detailed self-defense, however, is contained in a news release put out Sunday by UtahAmerican Energy, Inc., reporting on a press conference by two top officials of the company.

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"We have never seen the chief executive officer of any company, let alone any coal company, be out front with the media and allow us to perform rescue efforts, which he was also directing," it stated. "Mr. Murray has literally gone without sleep for the past three weeks and has never left his mine except to meet with his employees or administer to the families of the miners."

There's a reason why CEOs don't do this. It's not their strength, it's not their expertise, and it's not wise. Murray has proved that over and over again, and sadly, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration was absolutely cowardly about taking it over.

Where's the outrage?