Really fun at high school championships when the opposing sides have the same name.

School funding is more than just property taxes.

Per capita also provides funds. A really annoying tax.

State provides some funding.

Feds provide some funding.

And the sneaky bit of funding comes from earned income taxes. That's right. The EIT. Quite a bit of funding, in fact.

Neffsville is where the traffic light on 501 for Valley Road is, non? By the Turkey Hill. And the IU building. And the high school. And the toy shop.

Compare that to Lawn. Where there is a post office. And a volunteer fire station. Not much else. Even less in Upper Lawn, just a crossroads. Colebrook has a gas station. And a water dispensary. Twin Kiss has closed. And the tavern is still being rehabbed.

Mt. Gretna is a different story. There is Chattaqua (the Boro), Timber Hills (SoLo), Camp Meeting (W. Cornwall) and Laurel Woods (So. Annville).

PA is a municipal mess. Too many of them, imho.

In MA, counties and municipalities are organized and run separately. Cities are chartered whereas towns are not. Counties used to have more power and functions, but were curbed in about 30 years ago. Counties do not run the towns. Addresses are not based on the location of the post office (one feature of PA that I really dislike). Most towns have an annual Town Meeting where elected residents can vote on various budget items. School districts are NOT separate taxing organizations. They either get approval from the Board of Selectmen (and sometimes Town Meeting) or go back to the drawing board.

This is PA and the topic is Wolf's efforts to issue checks to those most in need from federal funds that have sitting unused for the past couple of years.

And I know welders who left the trade for lack of work.

BIW has baggage? What would that be, food on the table, a roof over the head, and two cars in the driveway?

Our military needs the tools to keep them from being easily killed. Places like BIW, and the folks who work there, make those tools.

Programming certs are oversold and over-rated, plus you have to compete with some kid out of India who performs the same task at 1/3 the cost. Good luck getting work with Google without having a math, CS or engineering degree.

Had a older cousin who was a brick mason nearly his entire adult until he reached 65. Always wished he had a better paying job but work was steady and he was built like a tank. My dad was built the same way. 20 years of chucking artillery in the army then a pipefitter/cord puller at BIW for another 20 until he retired.

My suggestion to the younger crowd looking to get into the trades is to learn how to program and operate the larger machines. CNC operators are in demand in a variety of geographical locations and the well-paying jobs appear very secure.

Bunch of my relatives were pipe fitters. A few were IBEW types. A couple worked in management. A science degree should land you a job.

Repetitive post? Was discussed in great detail just last week. Folks not even sure this was recent or under whose permit he got to hunt.

Is the john in the back corner there off the kitchen?

Mitsubishi automobiles have long been known to be cheap and prone to sudden equipment failure - goes at least as far back as the Cordia-L line.

Sanford has an ugly preacher... and a former college.

A dry river runs thru it.

What do you expect from cheap mitsubishi autos?

The governor keeps pushing the idea but the legislature does not want to work with him or to provide him with any opportunity to look like he's doing something for the people of pennsyltucky so they shut down the idea. Plus, the R-controlled legislature wants to make sure there is enough dough in the coffers to fund their upcoming 9% pay raise (on top of the 5% they got last year).

A dumb comment. Many folks who are in bad circumstances - often as the result of a bad medical episode - are not there by choice. R's need to stop being arseholes whose only goal in life is to piss off as many people as possible.

The "too late to buy" posts seem unhelpful. You are already aware of the lateness. My suggestion is to drive down towards Pownal and then come back up towards Gray. You might find a roadside sign where someone is selling.

$500 for a cord seems absurd. Just plain greed.

> there is no reason for any of that garbage to be taught to a 7yo in an elementary school.

I hear this often these days, same as the agenda thing, but no one ever really says what "that garbage" is. Kids are going to be who they are; parents who are NOT the parents of a gay kid should have no say in who that kid should be.

I can only go by what I found with a quick search. Did not do a deep dive. Loudon did wrong by that parent and his kid. No doubt about that. Does not mean I agree with attacking LGBTQ students due to the behavior of the one, tho.

I can find nothing with respect to the board taking any vote to not notify parents. Only indication comes from non-media sources, and I find those suspect.

Notice right away the reference to the CBSD "escorting" as teacher who helped a student file an OCR complaint off campus... retaliation by any other name is no less an act of retaliation.