We’re confused. On Monday, we got a press release talking about the opening of Erie County Recycling Convenience Center set to open on April 11. Yesterday, we put the info in our daily news post. The release basically said this:
The Erie County Recycling Program (ECRP) will open the first centralized collection site “Convenience Center” in [...]

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One of the programs slated to be cut in Gov. Rendell’s budget is the Governor’s School of Excellence program. Started in 1973, 15,000 students have attended one of the eight schools spread out across the state, including one at Mercyhurst College. We hope the program will be put back in the budget.
One of the [...]

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Oops, Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio did it again. Another report of DiVecchio breaking the law and costing the over burdened taxpayers of Erie County more money. Erie County got a bill for a parking ticket DiVecchio received. He received a $30 parking ticket for illegal parking in Washington, DC. DiVecchio, possibly thinking he has [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio still hasn’t resigned or been arrested. DiVecchio has been accused of a laundry list of improprieties of misuse of government employees and assets. He will sit down on Friday with Erie County Controller Sue Weber to try and explain away the charges.
Erie County Council members have no plans to conduct [...]

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Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio using county employees on county time as his own personal labor force was the topic all weekend. DiVecchio, one more than one occasion, used a county employee on county time with a county vehicle to have his home driveway plowed. He also used county employees on county time for his [...]

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The State Ethics Commission is aware of Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio having an Erie County employee using Erie County equipment being told to plow his driveway. They are also aware of DiVecchio using county employees to help his sister move and also using county employees to help set up a booth at Celebrate Erie [...]

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Parsimony is a ‘less is better’ concept of frugality, economy or caution in arriving at a course of action. Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio can’t grasp this concept. Somehow DiVecchio has taken the excellent idea of a community college and bastardized it into an incredibly expensive, complicated mess only a government bureaucrat can embrace.
DiVecchio’s idea [...]

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When we are infants, we don’t think. Infants act without thinking and such acts are completely honest. As we grow into adults, we become more and more adept at thinking before we act. So either the elected officials of Erie County are not yet adults or they are exceptions to the rule.
Erie County Executive Mark [...]

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