I normally don’t get into national politics on here, but this was so laughably bad it just had to be pointed out. So without making this about any one particular youth-, tech-, or idea-challenged political party, I’m going to make this a tale of caution to social media marketers everywhere. When you want to create [...]
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July 17, 2010
$850 Million in the Hole
The last two weeks have seen a lot of cheering* and celebration* over the passing* of the 2010 Pennsylvania Budget. This is good* news because unlike last year’s disaster, not a single state agency was forced to alter operations and not a single state employee was forced to work without pay. Now that the budget [...]
May 22, 2010
Tom Corbett Gets Slapped Down
Facing a mountain of criticism from local and national news agencies as well as a firestorm of commentary from social media sites, Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett backed down on his subpoenas yesterday. Earlier this month, his office issued a subpoena demanding private information on users critical of his campaign. With growing accusations that his [...]
May 20, 2010
Tom Corbett for Governor?
Generally speaking, I don’t do politics on this site. If it’s politics you want, you can Google the name of your favorite candidate or party and find approximately eleventy trillion other sites on which to get your fix. But earlier this month, our Attorney General did something that can only generously be described as “questionable”: [...]
June 30, 2009
Pennsylvania Budget Impasse 2009: Part 3
Note: This is part of a series of posts detailing the 2009 Pennsylvania budget impasse. To see all posts in this series, click here. Pennsylvania’s annual budget impasse (2009 edition) is well underway. Today, June 30th, is the deadline for a budget to be passed as per state law. Naturally, our legislature and governor are [...]
June 25, 2009
Pennsylvania Budget Impasse '09: Part II
Note: This is part of a series of posts detailing the 2009 Pennsylvania budget impasse. To see all posts in this series, click here. An anonymous source just forwarded me a very interesting email concerning Pennsylvania’s threat to require its employees to work with delayed pay. While it’s already been fairly well established that federal [...]
June 12, 2009
AFSCME to the Rescue!
With an impending budget impasse, AFSCME — the union to which most Pennsylvania civil service employees pay dues, regardless of whether they’re a member or not — has come forward in full support of its members with guns a-blazin’. Earlier this week, AFSCME finally updated their website to reference the impending stop-pay scenario with helpful [...]
