ATTORNEY GENERAL CANDIDATES WOULD STUDY SANDUSKY INVESTIGATION

According to an article in the Patriot News, if elected, two of the five candidates for Pennsylvania attorney general say they will review how the office investigated alleged child molestation by former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky. Not surprisingly, the willingness to investigate the investigation breaks almost entirely on party lines. Two of the three Democrats seeking the office — former assistant Philadelphia district attorney Dan McCaffery, and former congressman Patrick J. Murphy — claim the nearly three-year investigation was unusually prolonged and say they would conduct an internal review of the process if elected next year. Click here to read the Patriot News article.

DEP DRILLING PRODUCTION NUMBERS DO NOT ADD UP

According to an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Post-Gazette’s Pipeline page downloaded data on every Marcellus Shale well permit from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s website and mapping it so readers could find out where wells might be going in. Later they added data about fines levied on drillers, and on which wells were eventually drilled. Then they decided to include the state’s production data, but we ran into

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