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I get the Standard Speaker and the Pottsville Republican every day on the way to work, they have good articles about this. If you want more information from a local paper here try scouring The Morning Call.

2. Now every single case that ended with juveniles sentenced there should be reviewed. (Looks like they're only looking at the one judge's 5000 cases. They need to look at all of them.) The former judge should be billed for all expenses.

They are all being reviewed.

3. Whoever paid the bribes, and whoever authorized them, and whoever knew about this business model and kept quiet, also need to be tried.

They are actually the ones that turned them in.

2. Now every single case that ended with juveniles sentenced there should be reviewed. (Looks like they're only looking at the one judge's 5000 cases. They need to look at all of them.) The former judge should be billed for all expenses.

They are all being reviewed.

3. Whoever paid the bribes, and whoever authorized them, and whoever knew about this business model and kept quiet, also need to be tried.

They are actually the ones that turned them in.

There is a class action lawsuite.

A class action lawsuit being brought against the judges. Here is a link to the local paper, The Standard Speaker, about the pleas.

The judge has has his pension and pay terminated. I'm from around that area and it's actually big talk. If you search through the Standard Speaker site you'll see some comments from kids that were sent there.

An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.

A class action lawsuit being brought against the judges. Here is a link to the local paper, The Standard Speaker, about the pleas.

The judge has has his pension and pay terminated. I'm from around that area and it's actually big talk. If you search through the Standard Speaker site you'll see some comments from kids that were sent there.

An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.

A class action lawsuit being brought against the judges. Here is a link to the local paper, The Standard Speaker, about the pleas.

The judge has has his pension and pay terminated. I'm from around that area and it's actually big talk. If you search through the Standard Speaker site you'll see some comments from kids that were sent there.

An AC says before if these marks are still on the records for the kids. Well why wouldn't they be? Just because the sentencing was wrong doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed.

Obama will will double capital gains tax, raise Social Security taxes, income taxes, and most likely tons of other taxes (gasoline?) which affect everyone, (especially the poor) not just the rich.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hv559EfDVQDOVDVYhGxB2xcwCveQD92ORLP00

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/11/obama-i-deserve-a-tax-increase/

http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/24/editorial/hz_standspeak.20080824.c.pg2.hz21let_skuba_s1.1892436_edi.txt

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301848.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4597395.ece

http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20080822

Enough news sources for you, or should I go to the second page of google results? Obama simply believes in the old-fashioned "tax the rich" nonsense.

Everything I've read on the subject identifies increased security as being the primary reason for the reduced number of postal mailboxes.

I realize that the "Email is obsoleting the Post Office!" angle makes for good copy, just like it did 20 years ago or so when the Post Office was supposed to go the way of the dinosaur, but it just ain't so.

Here, this is what I found with 30 seconds of Google searching:

http://www.standardspeaker.com/index.php?option=co m_content&task=view&id=3222&Itemid=2 (security)

http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2006 0928/NATION/609280323/1020 (vaguely cites rise in net communications and Sep. 11th attack as hastening the death of the mailbox)

And then of course the sloppy Baltimore Sun article cited in the story mentions that it's "the Postal Service, working with the Homeland Security Department" (we call it the Department of Homeland Security, for godsake...) who is removing all the boxes. But the article snows over that to proudly proclaim that "disuse is the primary reason for box removal."

It might be that rising costs really are the reason for the removal of the boxes, but that "security concerns" are cited as pretext. Or maybe it's just that blaming innovation for cutbacks has become more fashionable than scaring people into going along with being inconvenienced. In any case, there's your story, if it's true, not this "the internet is killing mailboxes, and by extension, postal delivery!" presumptuous junk. And speaking of junk, I've got to go wade through the 30 pieces of junk mail that just arrived in my mailbox.