Today is election day. Please go and vote at your local polling place – there are several important races, including mayor, county executive and Erie County judge. The Erie Times-News has a comprehensive election guide online.
Joel at Press and Tower takes a deeper look at the election, specifically the Buzz videos, which have become [...]

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Not surprisingly, yesterday’s election is the biggest news of the day.
Thanks to everyone who came and hung out during our live blogging last night. We hope it was as much fun for you as it was for us. We had great discussion, people watching different TV channels and websites for up to the second results.
We’re interested [...]

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Today’s the big day. Please go out and vote. If you aren’t sure where to go to vote, you can enter your address in this non-partisan tool from Google to find out where your polling place is.  For more information on what kind of identification you will need to bring as well as how to use [...]

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Get out and vote today. Poll are open 7 am to 8 pm. Here is the Erie County 2007 Municipal Candidate List. Turnout is expected to be around 25 percent of eligible voters. Internet voting, voting by mail and changing the day of the week would dramatically increase the turnout. It also doesn’t help that [...]

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On this date, November 5 1857, journalist Ida M Tarbell was born in Hatch Hollow, near Wattsburg, in Erie County, Pennsylvania. Tarbell graduated with honors from Titusville High School and went on to graduate from Allegheny College in Meadville with a degree in biology. She is best-known for her 1904 book, The History of the [...]

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