I lived in Pennsylvania for 53 years. You cannot eat fish from the rivers or lakes. No one does as the fish are toxic. I don't know about fracking. I do kniw that air quality where I lived in Bucks County was below federal standards many days of the year. The governor has not made an effort to clean up the environment. Both the governor and my fed rep Fitzpatrick disagree with my push to legalize or decriminalize marijuana. Thus many pennsylvanians go to jail for smoking. Growing your own plants will put you in jail and is a federal offense. In southest PA, poverty is high while the we have the extreme rich. The dicotomy and disparity of the extreme rich and extreme poor is stunning as you drive from Bucks County through Philadelphia County. Perhaps most reflective of today's political environment of the way we accept poverty, is the way Pennsylvania schools are funded. Much of school funding is not shared equally through the state. The wealthy suburbs have higher school taxes and most of these schools are strong in academics, technology and sports programs. The inner city schools are severely underfunded and the results have been catastrophic. There is no democratic philosophy applied in Pennsylvania when it comes to opportunity. I could talk about the decline in the proud city of Philadelphia but no one cares and there's no money. The rich moved to the suburbs, the population is half of what it was in 1960. The Republican governor could give a shit. He has never set up any programs to reduce poverty.
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