On Friday, March 14, the Dietrich Theater in Tunkhannock will be hosting fiber works from artist Rose M. Wright, with writer Robert Anderson reading from his book The Cat, the Sun, and the Mirror. Illustrator of the book, Hanna Way Rawe, will also have artwork hanging. The show is titled R&R+H:Image/Word.
On January 15 the US House passed its 2014 spending bill, H.R. 3547, which allocates no less than $1.1 trillion in spending for January through October of this year. The bill was introduced on the evening of Monday, January 13, effectively leaving House members merely 24 hours to read and investigate all 1,582 pages. What does the spending include? Let’s take a look, and then see how your representatives voted, and why.
February 2014 signals a huge turn of events for non-GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) advocates. General Mills, owner of such brands as Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, and Häagen-Dazs, announced in January that one of its most popular brands, Cheerios, would no longer contain any genetically modified ingredients.
Famed technologist and White Hat, Jacob Applebaum, gave a presentation at the Chaos Communication Congress that outlines many of the ways the NSA compromises computer systems and networks.
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A husband and wife duo, Hank & Cupcakes is packed full of energy, joining the best indie bands out today.
Columbus Day weekend kicks off the Seventeenth Annual Artists’ Open House Weekend, a self-guided tour across Susquehanna County that brings you to the great works of 24 artists.
This month, Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry (L&I) went live with new software meant to streamline the workers’ compensation court system. According to an exclusive anonymous source for the Independent Gazette, this software has had the reverse effect, becoming the primary bottleneck of the courts.
Officers surrounded and entered 122 Boulevard Townhomes around 3:20 pm today. Photos taken by WBIG show officers obtaining material from recycle bins outside the premises.
On July 24 the House of Representatives had a showdown concerning limiting the powers of the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect and store—en masse—the private communications of all Americans. Representatives Justin Amash (R–MI) and John Conyers (D–MI) introduced an amendment to H.R. 2397, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, which would defund all programs and activities specifically targeting Americans who were not the subjects of an ongoing terrorism investigation.