I literally tried that right before posting here but the automated message said they were so busy and so short staffed and to call back later, and then it automatically hung up on me

Have you given their office a call? They might be able to tell you something that isn’t on the website.

The crusades have nothing to do with forcing Christianity as the only religion?

Uh, okay then! See you around

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Where were you on Jan 6?

Yawn.

What? Everyone pays school taxes. Not just people with kids that go to that school. Why should anyone get a refund because they decide to go elsewhere? That makes no sense. I don’t have a school aged child and we still pay school tax. School tax paid by everyone guarantees everyone gets access to an education. If you don’t believe with the curriculum, pay more for a private school. I know of 5 Christian private schools around me as it is.

This mom’s kid isn’t even in the class with the curriculum she has a problem with.

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Informative article, thanks for sharing.

One line gave me pause:

“It will not be easy to interpret the results of the testing for dioxins in soil”

Can someone eli5 why the results will be difficult to interpret?

I’m gonna go with “Cause they’ll find them” for $1000 Alex

You don’t get to cherry pick which taxes to pay. Millions of families of private school students have paid their taxes, why should that all of a sudden change? If you don’t like the public school curriculum, send your kids to private school or move to a school district that has an education system you support.

Maybe not, they may have fucked themselves, because something that has changed in that period of time is that older folks have realized edibles are very helpful for tons of medical issues. They are very popular with older people now, I don't think the "think of the children" strategy is going to work this time (see Florida's medical program for example, they have edibles and are more conservative politically, their program started a few years after PA if I remember correctly)

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There are very many elderly Pennsylvanians who lack credentials, birth certificates, passports etc. that would be needed for a voter ID card. My 90 MIL is one. She was born on her family farm in MD. She has lived here & raised a family for 80 years. She has voted in every election since 1960. She has several friends in the same boat. Don’t take away their vote🥲.

Would you say the same if the outcome was different?

They can also decide to only interview internal applicants. I work for the Commonwealth and recently changed jobs. When they posted my old position, they had less then 10 internal applicants and over 70 external applicants with a score of 100. They decided to only interview the internal applicants. If you really want a job with the State, you may have to take any job you qualify for to get your foot in the door and then apply for higher level positions. A lot of people start off as Clerical Assistants.

Too true. Politicians are just ego driven scam artists now.

How is voter ID racist? Every PA resident gets a free ID if they need one

Last I checked, common sense is to actually find a problem with something before you spend my tax money to fix it.

If there are actual, demonstrable issues with our elections in PA that need a constitutional amendment to fix, then for crying out loud show the damn evidence already.

The sexual abuse legislation should be a bill of its own, end of story. Some politicians are using it solely to advance the other two bullshit amendments. In an ironic way it shows exactly how much they really care about: only as far as it can help them politically.

"House Republicans continue voter suppression agenda"... "

That's government work. Try not to get frustrated, keep a positive attitude and keep applying.

Truth. It's frustrating to have a great candidate(s) that get blocked. Nothing against veterans or active military because my agency has had excellent staff that were/are in the military...but we have also had candidates that check almost all our "they can do this difficult job" boxes that get blocked.

Fox "news" and "opinion." All that needs to be said.

Seems to me that the sexual abuse legislation should be a bill of its own and the REPUBLICANS put the voter ID bullshit in as a poison pill that they knew wouldn’t pass…for the express purpose of political posturing.

Guess the OP is too caught up in partisanship and/or lacks the intellect to recognize these stupid games.

Proof?