I can't say you will or you won't have issues, just be aware there is the very large variance typically associated with rush hours that the roads can just barely handle. And there will be a lot of people on every route out.

While Breezewood certainly has places to eat I cannot endorse monetarily rewarding the tomfoolery that has led to it's continued existence.

If your only firm goal is dinner and a hotel room, the answer is there is no difference. You will find food and lodging to be roughly on par with each other on average. I wouldn't consider one any safer than the other. Nor one any 'nicer' than the other.

The section of 15 through southern Perry county is especially tiresome, although you'll most likely end up taking 581/81/322 to go around so maybe it doesn't matter. On the other hand, the western route will take you through the infamous Breezewood not-interchange.

Yeah, six of one, half-dozen the other.

One thing I will say is don't plan on making good time leaving DC on a Friday at 4. Traffic could very easily cost you an extra hour (or worse) trying to get out of the city.

That was my second guess. Knew it had to be down that end of the county.

Best weather in the world.

Also: Muncy?

Those people would be wrong.

Loads of people go to amusement parks with no intention of getting on roller coasters. The aged, the very young, the car sickened, the pregnant, the spinally challenged, the vertically challenged, people who just flat out don't like it.

They go to be with family, friends; to play the carnival games; to watch the shows; to enjoy indulgent food. Trying to reduce the whole experience to the single element of coasters, even for the people who ride them, is absurd.

A lot of covered bridges too.

You can also ride one at Strasburg. Lots of options for the kind of ride you want as well.

Add a ghost tour to the list, a lot of them are pretty hokey but it's still fun when the actors/guides are good.

The cost of a season ticket is only about double the normal park entry. If you're going to do it once maybe spring for the season pass so you'll always have it as a backup in a worst case scenario.

Putting Hersheypark and Knoebels in the same league always seemed pretty laughable to me.

Hersheypark wins in exactly one category: Number of top tier coasters. That's it. It's more expensive not only in the up front cost but the ridiculous in park mark-ups. The lines are outrageous. The parking is outrageous. The food as expensive as it is, is terrible. The value proposition for non-riders is infinitely bad. It feels like it's trying to be Disney-lite in the worst possible way, using your affection for the brand to steam roll you with a bad park experience.

Everything else about Knoebel's is better because it has to be. Long lines help no-one and maybe even hurt them because you spend less money. It also helps you, if you end up there on a day when it's slammed and the lines are long, you spend less money. You can bring in outside food so the food stalls have to be competitive which means not only are they far more reasonably priced but mostly just straight up tasty. It's practically gourmet cuisine compared to the shit they serve at Hersheypark. If you're non-rider it doesn't cost you anything just to walk through the door. There is usually at least passable live music to kill time out of line with. The parking is free. Knoebel's isn't built in an up-jumped parking lot - it's not hard to find a shady spot because basically everywhere is a shady spot.

It's not even close.

You cannot possibly believe that if you force retired troopers to choose between working a second job and fishing or hunting every day while living off their pension they're going to choose the job.

Nothing is changing, yet. This ruling just puts the state assembly on notice that they need to fix it. It also, maybe, opens the state up to liability for continuing to fail to provide for this constitutional guarantee. Unfortunately the judiciary doesn't have a lever it can pull to force the legislature to actually do it's fucking job and in the end it will be up to the voters to decide to hold the assembly accountable or not. In other words: don't hold your breath.

https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20230207/214401-587md2014--memorandumopinionfiled(feb.7)reduced.pdf

The opinion makes a pretty significant point of addressing the relevance of all the inputs in the educational system. Most notably in the conclusion where it is written:

>The findings regarding inputs, such as funding, courses, curricula and programs, staffing, facilities, and instrumentalities of learning, demonstrate manifest deficiencies between low-wealth districts, such as Petitioner Districts, and their more affluent counterparts. Educators credibly testified to lacking the very resources state officials have identified as essential to student achievement, some of which are as basic as safe and temperate facilities in which children can learn. Educators also testified about being forced to choose which few students would benefit from the limited resources they could afford to provide, despite knowing more students needed those same resources. The effect of this lack of resources shows in the evidence of outcomes, which also must be considered to determine if the system is “thorough and efficient” and to give effect to the phrase “to serve the needs of the Commonwealth.”

So from where exactly do you draw the conclusion that this part of the discussion was just for funsies and the eventual remedy will only require reforms to the state funding formula?

Seeing as my crystal ball is broken, I guess you'll have to ask the state assembly what their plan is.

No, it means that all the school taxes collected must be shared equitably across all districts.

https://www.witf.org/2023/02/07/judge-deems-pennsylvanias-school-funding-system-unconstitutional/

A non-paywalled article. Clearly the better moral outcome, glad the judge agreed it was also a better legal outcome.

>What was so bad...

Hey look, another person who doesn't understand how mental illness works.

They aren't going to win, but that doesn't make it pure theatrics. It's pretty well documented at this point that social media is terrible for the mental health of teenagers.

Dogs are treated as property and the most you're going to get is the cost of replacement. The unfortunate reality is the most the hunter is on the hook for is probably a couple hundred dollars, which is often not worth the cost to pursue.

"We're doing it, so we know you must being doing it too! How dare you!"

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