By Joseph P. Batory  Published in the Concerned Center City Citizens Review     February, 2017  At the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in December (2016), Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig characterized the United States Congress as the most corrupt representative body in all of the Western world. Lessig stressed that the corrupter is MONEY! He contends that […]

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Published in the Delaware County Daily Times    02/13/17 As a school superintendent for more than 15 years, I lived in terror of snow/ice, primarily because I regularly had to decide whether or not and when to send nearly 100 school buses into inclement weather. Under Pennsylvania law, the Upper Darby School District has the responsibility of […]

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Published in the Concerned Center City Citizens Review, October 2016 By Joseph Batory In recent years, Pennsylvania’s Republican majority legislature, with its fiscal head in the sand, has refused to deal with the reality that the State needs more revenue in order to pay for the services it provides —State government continues to run with […]

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