Eat the fattest loads universities, with that statement as your topping.

Meanwhile a college football coach makes more than a professor

Shitttttttt Florida man was raging on I-90 today....

Also, it's cool that the white tailed deer is finally being recognized as our state amphibian

Really? The great Dane? I didn't know that.

Follow all the other rules, especially noise and fire related ones, and you'll likely be fine. Make sure you don't exceed vehicle and tent limits. Rangers usually aren't coming around and doing head counts. They usually just want to make sure no one is being disruptive or dangerous.

Joe knew.

I'm a civil engineer, specifically geotechnical, who has done a lot of work in the area. PA isn't really special. Many PA roads were just built shitty, so they require more maintenance, which costs more money in the long run, which means money is drained on maintenance that could have been spent on actually building the roads right in the first place. All those other states have their own challenges when it comes to road construction. Go ahead and build a road in Delaware when groundwater is six inches below grade. See how easy that is. Just look at border transissions. The climate and terrain don't typically change because you are one mile or so either side of the state line. But road conditions definitely do.

We have built pretty good roads through much more adverse terrain and climate than you will find in PA. We've only been building paved roads for a few thousand years, but I'm pretty sure we can overcome the climate and terrain challenges offered by PA if it was done right from the start.

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Rates spiked due to the dramatic increase in natural gas prices globally (Ukraine-Russia war). We generate a lot of electricity from natural gas.

What do you expect from a state that is pushing for genocide on its trans youth.

Electric rates spiked dramatically in the last year. PA generates a lot of electricity with natural gas. Natural gas prices spiked due to the war in Ukraine. It’s a global market.

Natural gas has plunged recently. A downward adjustment is coming. If you have your distribution utility as your supplier, by PUC regulation they make no money on the commodity. It’s a straight pass thru at the cost they pay the generator.

I don't believe so, when my partner uses that "Down Checker" website or whatever it is called it is multiple people within our county that experiences these outages.

Don't forgot replacing full time tenure track professor positions with part-time adjunct positions that pay worse, offer no benefits, and are on a semester by semester contract basis. Meaning you're paying more for larger classes taught by less experienced teachers.

Also take 30% overhead from any research grant, and pay Postdocs and grad students (who are also teaching some classes), the NIH minimum (which is required to get NIH funding). Plus, if the Postdoc or grad student does get a grant that will increase their salary, take the money, and keep them on the minimum salary (This is at least the bullshit that Temple pulls).

You can extend it well past the state. Some people suck. It’s not exclusive to Pennsylvania

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Woah, I thought you were quoting prices, but those are the taxes!

Always hated that on the turnpike. One jackass doing 66 trying to pass another jackass doing 65 all in a 70.

Yes so vote for candidates that will do something. And if they dont contact them. When i went to college it was high but i can afford it. Now its becoming unreasonable and i wouldnt go. I have contacted republic and democrat candidates to ask about their plans.

You post vague statements about politics that are so full of shit. Neither party is doing anything about colleges raising tuitions. At least the Democrats attempted to ease the burden of cost - although the execution sucked.

Nice self portrait

Register for a party if you are independent. Decide which party aligns with your values. Vote in primaries for the candidates that will actually bring change, not just popular vote. Most importantly, talk to people who hold different views instead of villanizung them.

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The funding for those facilities at PSU is separate from the academic side of the school. Money from athletics supports the school, not the other way around. Money donated for athletic facilities has to go to those facilities. It’s a condition of the donation usually.

Should more donors donate to the academic programs? Definitely. But I don’t like the impression that money that would otherwise go to academics goes to sports because it’s not true. At least not for PSU.

Woah, slow down there. You need to buy gear to make art and music. Music gear in particular gets incredibly expensive. There’s profit there.