This is an article that I found in my home-town newspaper. The speaker of the State House is looking for sponsors that would be in favor of his proposal of cutting back the size of PAs legislature. Many people had different views on the bill. In my opinion, I don't think they should cut back the number of PA representatives so severely. The proposal is to cut back 50 people, which is a large number. This would cause many people to lose their jobs. Also, Pennsylvania is a very diverse state. We have people to represent from very different backgrounds. It is good that we have so many representatives because I am sure people from my small community have different opinions than people from Philly or Pittsburgh.
This article is about the debate over higher education. Tim Corbett suggested that the money be lent to students in the form of grants instead of subsidies. It is the biggest cut of higher education than any governor has proposed this year. I have two different opinions on this article. I know that because of our economic situation money has to be cut from somewhere so cutting it from higher education is seemingly a good proposal. However we need people to go to college so that they can have jobs in the future. With these cuts to education some people will be forced to not go to a regular 4 year college and our economy will suffer in the future. Secondly, schools need subsidies and their institutions benefit the public by research money.
This article is about how Hurel Corp. developed technology that would switch from animal testing to testing done with stem cells of the human body. They did this research with the help of funding from the L'Oreal cosmetic company. The tests done show that this will hopefully be in place next year, but rigorous tests have not been completed yet. This is obviously a controversial topic because stem cell research is a controversial topic. In my opinion, I would rather see testing done on the stem cells than to animals because the animals are already living. Also, in the future it will probably be more accurate to test on human stem cells than animal cells because we do not have to same genome as animals such as mice or guinea pigs. This product would also cut the cost of developing a new drug by 1 million dollars!
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