About a year ago Barb Gleim made a post in a closed Facebook forum for Moms for Liberty. In that post she suggested that Carlisle Area School District teachers were favoring students of color. abc27.com/pennsylvania-p… To be completely honest this is an utterly bizarre accusation to make, I would expect it from local crank but this is an elected representative making baseless allegations of reverse racism for political purposes. Immoral and disgusting behavior on her part.

Scatterplots are not truth per se. But this one is suggestive of common sense, when Pennsylvania school districts have more resources to hire teachers, counselors etc..low income students perform better on the Commonwealth's standardized tests. Vouchers don't inject additional resources into education. They take from one school and give it to another. They further cripple already underfunded schools driving up class size for students that don't use the voucher and feeding a cycle of dysfunction and decline.

Last week a Central Pennsylvania Republican, Rep. Andrew Lewis claimed that faculty salaries in Pennsylvania’s State System schools are in the range of a half a million dollars a year! The next morning he issued this non-apology apology after being informed that faculty salaries couldn’t average half a million a year if salaries max out at $130,000. Oh! The unbending havoc of the arbitrary cruelties of math!

Here is breakdown of the quality of nursing home care in Cumberland County. What you see quite clearly is public and non-profit nursing provide a higher quality of care than for-profit nursing homes. A thread follows. The original rationale for publicly owned nursing home in Cumberland County is local leaders recognized a need for long-term care options for residents.

So last Christmas break I spent a good deal of time looking into financials and health outcomes at the Cumberland County owned Claremont Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. So I figured I would check in this break with how things are going. I can't verify the timeliness of Medicare's data but as of today the facility is still Government owned. medicare.gov/care-compare/d…

I did some volunteer work that unexpectedly gave me a window into the institutional inertia that maintains and extends inequality. All the players were nice as can be but vigorously defended inequality. It was an unsettling experience. Bottom line. Don't you dare enter this world without power. The world & those with it will crush you. Some will crush you with the appropriate disdain, others will do it with a smile. Outrageous fortune determines if you get a smile, Power's absence guarantees the crushing.

When Trump was first elected it was grotesque. We elected a racist, a misogynist, a failson, a carnival barker. In office he confirmed every worst fear, kidnapping children @ the border, energizing the descendants of the KKK. Vanquishing him was initially disappointing because it was so close and up until Georgia few of his enablers were vanquished.

Well I guess we are all going to be holding our breath for few days as we wait to see how much additional spread there is as a result of the holiday. Here is where we are as of cases reported yesterday. Since last Monday there were an average of 107 new infections reported each day in Cumberland County, down slightly from the previous weeks daily average of 122.

Ok everyone. It happened. I’m mad at what someone said on the internet again. Sorry to interrupt the usual light but doomy scroll. As I work out my anger at the universe. So Adam Looney. Phd from Harvard. Undergrad at Dartmouth. Oh boy, can you smell trouble. If you can’t you may want to get tested for COVID-19. He served among other places in Obama’s Treasury.

Ok. Things are bad enough to make me check the COVID-19 case counts in Cumberland in the morning something I haven't done since May. Here is your naïve projection of COVID-19 cases in Cumberland county assuming the daily rate of increase in infections in the last seven days holds at 2.7% through April.