The School District of the City of Erie has of budget of over $122,000,000 and has about 12,500 students. You have to wonder about the intelligence of the people running the school district and therefor the quality of education the children are receiving if you read the article Hidden Swap Fees by JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley [...]

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Starting today Single Stream Recycling begins in the City of Erie. Everything can be places together in blue or clear plastic bags every week. Aerosol cans, styrofoam, pizza boxes and waxed cardboard such as milk cartons and laundry detergent boxes aren’t accepted but all other glass, plastic, paper and cardboard items can be included. Maybe [...]

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Happy New Year. It was 52 degrees at midnight as 2007 arrived. The El Nino effect rocks. Temperatures are expected to be in the 40′s for the next 10 days. For those of you that like snow, on average the coldest part of Winter is Jan 13 to Feb 4. We’ll still get our fair [...]

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  Presque Isle Downs will open on February 15, 2007. At lest that’s the tenative date they announced. They’re still at the mercy of construction workers and the weather. The slots-only casino is located at the intersection of I-90 and Route 97 (Exit 27).   The Inner-City Neighborhood Art House in Erie was the subject [...]

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Dr Gulam Moonda of Hermitage PA was shot and killed along the Ohio Turnpike near Cleveland last May. Damian Bradford of Erie PA is a ‘person of interest’ in the case. A search warrant recovered a number of items from his home. Bradford still hasn’t been charged in that crime but he is behind bars [...]

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Open you walets. Your 2006 Erie County property taxes are going up. A property with an assessed value of $100,000 will now pay $495, up $27 from this year. Along with raising your taxes, Erie County Council voted 7-0 to borrow $1 million and cut one full-time job to part-time. The official vote county for [...]

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Erie PA native Scott Eden said his idea of utopia is a world in which his agent sells his book. Eden is living in a perfect world. His agent sold Touchdown Jesus : Faith and Fandom at Notre Dame to Simon and Schuster. He will read from the book and sign copies tonight at 7 [...]

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