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August 11, 2014
By Debra Erdley
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, 9:00 p.m.
Gov. Tom Corbett announced his Ready to Succeed scholarship program with a bang last winter, pitching a proposal to set aside $25 million for grants for college students with family incomes up to $110,000 a year.
Corbett, who has come under fire for reducing subsidies to public universities, framed the proposal as an effort to help minimize debt for students who don't qualify for need-based aid but have completed at least one year of school with a 3.25 GPA. He vowed he wouldn't sign a budget without the program described as relief for hard-pressed, middle-income families.
After months of contentious budget negotiations, the program was quietly pared to $5 million.
Read more: http://triblive.com/news/education/6563452-74/grants-program-students#ixzz3A7hobAg5
Corbett slashes (his own) Ready to Succeed grants program.
Budget wrangling cuts $20M from Pennsylvania scholarship program touted by CorbettBy Debra Erdley
Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014, 9:00 p.m.
Gov. Tom Corbett announced his Ready to Succeed scholarship program with a bang last winter, pitching a proposal to set aside $25 million for grants for college students with family incomes up to $110,000 a year.
Corbett, who has come under fire for reducing subsidies to public universities, framed the proposal as an effort to help minimize debt for students who don't qualify for need-based aid but have completed at least one year of school with a 3.25 GPA. He vowed he wouldn't sign a budget without the program described as relief for hard-pressed, middle-income families.
After months of contentious budget negotiations, the program was quietly pared to $5 million.
Read more: http://triblive.com/news/education/6563452-74/grants-program-students#ixzz3A7hobAg5
August 11, 2014
http://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/dog-day/
National Dog Day should be a major holiday!
The National Dog Day Foundation supports all breeds and varieties of dogs and discourages purchasing from unethical backyard breeders and puppy mills; instead, support reputable breeders or adopt from rescue homes.
http://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/dog-day/
August 11, 2014
He should have resigned.
I don't know if it would have made a difference to the neo-cons who were rabid for war, but he might have maintained a little integrity and the respect of the country.
Even I didn't believe his "testimony" at the UN and I was just a nobody from nowhere without any inside information. It was all a charade.
August 8, 2014
White House briefing on now re: military strikes in Iraq.
CNN, MSNBC and C-Span2 all covering it. 1:00 pm ET.
August 7, 2014
I am appalled that they replaced Bogut and Cardille with those offensive wing nuts.
We love Jack Bogut and Chilly Billy in Pittsburgh. They are both Pittsburgh institutions. What a sad day in the 'Burgh.
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