This week’s video is a blast from the past.

Not funny, Ray. Not funny at all. According to the US Census Bureau, we in Erie have the highest poverty rate of any large city in the commonwealth. Nearly 20% of city residents were below the poverty live, earning less than $10,830. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that Allegheny County Executive Dan Onoroto will enter [...]

Secretly, we kind of like days like yesterday – windy and drizzly. Not every day, mind you, but once in a while, it’s nice. We should have a few more days like that this week. Marjorie Diehl-Armstrong has a new lawyer – Douglas Sughrue. Of course, she could always change her mind 12 more times. [...]

Kim Fabrizio is a high-capacity person. Currently the executive assistant to the President of Edinboro University, she has held high posts at WQLN and the Erie Times-News in years past. Kim is a person that gets things done; and she does it while battling Multiple Sclerosis. Soon after her diagnosis in 2007 she began blogging [...]

Second Lieutenant Edward French, missing in action since 1943, was finally laid to rest here in Erie this weekend. He was lost when his B-24 crashed in New Guinea. Welcome home. Ed Palattella had a good story in yesterday’s paper about Greg Rubino and his Tecnica Development Corporation. A state grand jury is looking into [...]

CultureSpark, the Erie County Cultural Plan, has developed an initial set of priorities and ideas through a series of forums, leadership interviews and meetings with artists and organizations. Now, CultureSpark is reaching out to Erie County residents, artists and organizations to gather their opinions, ideas and hopes by conducting three Web-based questionnaires. The three surveys [...]

I came up with this I’m Bored topic when I was hanging out at the Erie County Library recently and… guess what… it’s absolutely free.

I am so glad that it’s Friday. Was it just me or was this week completely brutal? Dasa, an orangutan at the Erie Zoo, gave birth to a baby boy last week. The new arrival does not yet have a name. Mercyhurst College and the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) have announced a [...]

The Advertising Federation of Northwest Pennsylvania (formerly the Erie Ad Club) has announced the winners of its 2009 Creative Spark Awards. Whereas the organization’s ADDY Awards, held each spring, recognize work done by companies and organizations, the Creative Spark Awards recognize individuals who are making a positive impact on the advertising and marketing communications industry [...]

We’re feeling sorry for all those poor folks who live in the Pittsburgh area as the G-20 Conference opens today.  It looks and sounds like everyone in the country with something to protest or an agenda to push has descended on the City.  Several groups couldn’t wait for the official opening, and started their shenanigans [...]

ArtsErie will launch its Big Read program in celebration of Ray Bradbury’s classic Fahrenheit 451 with a community kick-off on Thursday, Oct. 1 from 6-8 p.m. at the H.O. Hirt Auditorium in Blasco Library (160 East Front St., Erie). The Big Read—Erie is presented in partnership with the Erie County Public Library and the School [...]

Several legal stories today. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint today on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection against Erie Coke Corporation for Clean Air Act violations at its coke foundry. The company has been fined several times for high levels of air pollution. Is [...]