Recent comments in /f/Pennsylvania

Accurate_Ad_8114 t1_j8t5u1w wrote

I have been wondering if any of the precipitation gotten since this derailment contains toxicity from the chemicals. It is now starting to rain where I live and hopefully this rain is not toxic as I am somewhat fearing it is.

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AtBat3 t1_j8t4q5u wrote

Go look at how many people have been exonerated after being on death row. Now think about how many actually were put to death because they didn’t get lucky enough to be exonerated. As long as there’s the chance that we are putting innocent people to death, I am against the death penalty.

There’s also the main argument that we shouldn’t be killing people at all no matter what, but I feel my former argument hits home a bit more.

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1989throwa t1_j8t4pl7 wrote

So, first off: schools. We just had a landmark legal case about how the legislature funds our school districts. We have a state constitutional right to a "thorough and efficient system of education." The judged ruled that the current system does not meet that standard.

We don't know how this will shake out, but a lot of rural and urban schools could be getting quite a bit more money.

Also, PA's School districts are NOT always county based. We can have a dozen or more districts within a single county. This means that school rivalries extend beyond athletics and go to how well a school is funding the education BECAUSE folks could, in some cases, just move a few houses down and be in a different district. Pennsylvanians also have a tendency to being fiercely defensive of our local control. We make Councils of Governments rather than consolidate Governments, so I have doubts the new school funding method will cause a tidal wave of consolidations because that's just not something we like to do.

That being said, if you still want the kids to go to a Catholic school, you are mostly looking at areas near the Anthracite coal region (Scranton to Pottsville or so) or the region that includes State College, Altoona, and Johnstown (we call ourself the Allegheny region, but that confuses people who think "Allegheny County" which is Pittsburgh).

You could also do the mountains close to the Lehigh Valley or near Harrisburg since there are Catholic schools there as well.

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dude334kds t1_j8t3def wrote

Not from coal burned directly here. Some of the factories in eastern ohio/west virginia utilize coal and the jet stream pushes that east and north. The coal burned in pa the same way moves with the jet stream to jersey and new york. The average ph of rain could vary but it always almost slightly acidic around a 6.5-6.75 on the ph scale without the addition of sulfides to the atmosphere.

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dude334kds t1_j8t3d21 wrote

Not from coal burned directly here. Some of the factories in eastern ohio/west virginia utilize coal and the jet stream pushes that east and north. The coal burned in pa the same way moves with the jet stream to jersey and new york. The average ph of rain could vary but it always almost slightly acidic around a 6.5-6.75 on the ph scale without the addition of sulfides to the atmosphere.

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SamuelLCompassion t1_j8t2pnn wrote

>In 2015, the Justice Department and the FBI formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an FBI forensic squad overstated forensic hair matches for two decades before the year 2000. Of the 28 forensic examiners testifying to hair matches in a total of 268 trials reviewed, 26 overstated the evidence of forensic hair matches and 95% of the overstatements favored the prosecution. Defendants were sentenced to death in 32 of those 268 cases.
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>The executions of Nathaniel Woods, Dustin Higgs, and Troy Davis have been cited by some as possible cases of wrongful executions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrongful_execution

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