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PA Supreme Court Debate, Philadelphia School Funding, Democrat Presidential Debate

by: Rebel - Havertown, PA
started: 10/14/15 8:53 am | updated: 10/14/15 8:53 am

The only scheduled debate among all the candidates for three open seats on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is just hours away. Wednesday's forum at Widener University Law School in Harrisburg comes less than three weeks before the Nov. 3 election. Seven candidates are running â€” three Democrats, three Republicans and an independent. Two of the open seats resulted from the resignations of disgraced justices â€” a Democrat implicated in a pornographic email scandal and a Republican convicted of corruption for using state-paid staff for political work.

Philadelphia School District officials will go before a city council committee Wednesday to testify about the need for a final $25-million in city funding. Council and district officials reached an agreement, last week, that allows council to monitor and give input on district finances, but council president Darrell Clark says some questions remain. The district contracted out substitute teachers at a cost of $34-million, but the private company it hired has been unable to fill 80 percent of vacant classrooms. Superintendent William Hite and School Reform Commission Chairman Marge Neff will be testifying.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders clashed over U.S. involvement in the Middle East, gun control and economic policy in the first Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night, vigorously outlining competing visions for a party seeking to keep the White House for a third straight term. While the five candidates onstage took issue with each other, they also repeatedly sounded traditional Democratic themes â€” such as fighting income inequality â€” that are sure to carry over to the general election campaign against the Republicans. And they sought to cast the GOP as a party focused on sowing division and denigrating minorities and women.

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