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Milk and Honey, er, Hormones
Bowing to pressure from consumer advocates, Pennsylvania officials have
dropped plans to bar farmers from revealing whether or not milk hails from
hormone-enhanced cows. The state's agriculture department on Thursday issued new
guidelines that allow dairies to label milk so that customers know if it was
produced from cows pumped with recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) also
known as recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST).
Source: Scientific American (online), January 18, 2008
Pennsylvania bars hormone-free milk labels
State Agriculture Secretary Dennis C. Wolff said advertising one brand of
milk as free from artificial hormones implies that competitors' milk is not
safe, and it often comes with what he said is an unjustified higher price.
STLToday, November 14, 2007
Official proposes gun in every house
Henry Statkowski is proposing a "civil protection ordinance"
[Indiana County] that would ask
all heads of households in the 450-resident borough to maintain a firearm and
ammunition so residents don't have to rely on police to do a "homeowner's job."
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune Review, November 22, 2006
Philadelphia schools promote 'gay' agenda
The Philadelphia School District has launched a new advance in the battle to
indoctrinate school children into the "gay" agenda with its announcement that
October is "Gay and Lesbian History Month."
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 5, 2006
Angry board spurns dropout study
City school board members angrily denounced a study that estimates 35 percent
of high school students -- including nearly half of all black male students --
drop out of Pittsburgh Public Schools.
Source: The Post Gazette (online), July 13, 2006
Motorist files suit against officer
A Lawrence County man filed a federal lawsuit Monday claiming a police
officer violated his constitutional rights by issuing a citation after the
man flipped off a road construction worker in a fit of anger.
Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (online), March 14, 2006
Pa.
seizes paper's computer hard disks
In an unusual and little-known case, the Pennsylvania Attorney General's
Office has seized four computer hard drives from a Lancaster newspaper as
part of a statewide grand-jury investigation into leaks to reporters.
Source: Philly@com, March
13, 2006
Bush photo at farmers' market causes row
A Democratic city councilman has demanded that a baker remove
photos of President Bush from his stand in Lancaster's venerable
farmers' market, saying the city needs a "healing period"
following the bitterly contested presidential election.
Source: CentreDaily.com, December 13, 2004
District to install security cameras at school
Mary Kate DeCoursey doesn't like the idea of school officials
watching her eat lunch, talk to her friends or walk into North
Allegheny Senior High School.
"Unless there is a specific reason to have security cameras, like
there was a problem, I don't think they should be in the school," said
DeCoursey, 17, of Franklin Park. "It's an invasion of privacy. Why do
they need to watch us?"
Source: Tribune Review, July 11, 2004
Forced Genital Examinations
On March 19, 1996 at the J.T. Lambert Intermediate School in
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 59 eleven-year-old girls were herded into the
school nurse’s office, told to remove their clothes, and forced to undergo a
genital examination.
Source: The New American,
July 21, 1997
The
Deseret News, August 4, 1996
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