New babies at Erie Zoo!!

Read the full post

Beware of the Ice Dunes

Read the full post

Our ship has come in!!

Read the full post

Daffodil Days!

Read the full post

Murder, snow, basketball, table games, building collapse, donating blood, gas prices, cell phone ban, fund raising, Otter hockey…

Read the full post

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Read the full post

Still shopping for gifts? We have ideas.

Read the full post

Gannon swimmer carried the torch!

Read the full post

Dreaming of a White Christmas?

Read the full post

Finally someone is going to put to use the constant wind that comes across Lake Erie.  Ontario Hydro is planning to erect more than 800 wind turbines in the lake.  That’s enough to provide power for two million homes.  Sounds a lot better than some other power generation ideas that are floating around.  Now if [...]

Read the full post

 
The Erie County United Way kicked off its 2009 fundraising campaign today.  The agency hopes to match last year’s contributions of 5.7 Million dollars, but the sagging economy may constitute a problem.  The fund drive runs through November.  33 agencies and 100,000 people were served last year.
On Tuesday, employees with the Mental Health Association of [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
Upcoming Erie Concerts and Shows:
Feb. 13: The Temptations, Warner Theatre (tickets)
Feb. 19: Jerry Seinfeld, Warner Theatre [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
This Week’s Events
Willy Wonka will be at the Erie Playhouse January 16-18. This play is adapted [...]

Read the full post

Mother Nature cooperated this year and there is plenty of fresh powder at Peek N Peak and it’s just in time for the annual lift ticket giveaway! The Community Blood Bank wants donors and is enticing them with lift tickets on Tuesday. Peek ‘N Peak Ski Resort has generously donated over $10,000 worth of ski [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
This Week’s Events
The Erie Playhouse presents The Music of Stephen Schwartz at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, [...]

Read the full post

And we have snow… and lot’s of it.  Be careful and plan ahead before you travel.
Police are still trying to identify the remains of a man beleived to be behind this past Tuesday’s shooting near Brown Ave and 25th Street. Although police are confident the body is that of 42-year-old Robert Daniels, a DNA [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
This Week’s Events
Willy Wonka will be at the Erie Playhouse January 9-11 and 16-18. This play [...]

Read the full post

Man, was Saturday a beautiful day or what? Personally, we needed a bit of time away from the family and all the holiday stuff and took a long walk. Presque Isle was crowded and some people even got in a few holes of golf. For a second there, we almost thought it was April. We [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
This Week’s Events
Gannon University will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the death of one of the [...]

Read the full post

If you would like your event considered for posting here on ErieBlogs.com, please send us your information using our online contact form. Make sure you check our daily News & Events for new event listings and events happening that day.
This Week
The Erie Philharmonic, under the baton of conductor Daniel Meyer, will perform a free [...]

Read the full post

Live thoroughbred racing returns to the Erie, PA, today Friday, May 9, when Presque Isle Downs and Casino commences its 2008 meeting. Presque Isle’s 100-day season will extend through September 27, with a daily post time of 5:30 pm. Admission and general parking throughout the meet will be FREE.
Last year, Presque Isle’s inaugural meet was [...]

Read the full post

The Huntington Bank at Peach and Kuntz Rd was robbed yesterday of $3,000. The robber got away on a bicycle and went into the Grenada Apartment complex. Maybe he’ll use the money to buy a car.
US Air Force Second Lieutenant Matthew E Emmons, a native of Corry PA, died recently in a training accident at [...]

Read the full post

The former Hotel Evergreen in Edinboro last night burned down to the ground. The hotel had been vacant, but the 4 story wooden structure still housed a bar and pizza shop. It was better known for hosting bands than a hotel. Steve Marshall took a few pictures and passed them along to WUSA-TV: pic 1, [...]

Read the full post

The flap caused by Peter Marsh in a Financial Times article calling Erie “unfashionable” was picked up by the Albany Times-Union, with Don’t disparage Erie and Unfashionable unpardonable. They must have picked up on Peter Panepento’s Erie’s Best Spokespeople. Before this I think the only people that had ever heard of Peter Marsh were his [...]

Read the full post

The Greater Erie Board of Realtors released the January 2008 property transfer figures for Erie County PA. The reports shows that 243 properties were sold for $41,202,807. This compares to January 2007 when 280 properties sold for $44,849,368 and January 2006 when 254 changed hands for $26,951,813. The figures include residential, commercial, investment properties as [...]

Read the full post

Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio got away with it. GoErie.com reported that DiVecchio paid $285 in reimbursements for snowplowing and parking fines. DuhVecchio still doesn’t comprehend that what he did was wrong. The article by Kevin Flowers quoted him as saying “I just want this over with.” If you get caught, all you have to [...]

Read the full post

Governor Rendell was in Erie yesterday to his economic stimulus plan, unveiled as part of his 2008-09 budget proposal. What Fast Eddie didn’t say was that Pennsylvania taxpayers and businesses will continue to be overly burdened with taxes much higher than the national average.
The Pennsylvania budget includes an increase in the Capital Stock and Franchise [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

Paul Mutton in an article on Netcraft reported that The Bank of Lancaster County is currently being targeted by a phishing attack that asks to call a number in Erie, PA. With phone numbers being portable, it could be someone half way around the world but Lancaster and Erie are only separated by 350 miles [...]

Read the full post

It wasn’t that long ago that downtown Erie had less activity than a cemetery. Now it’s becoming the place to work and live.
Yesterday, Jim Berlin, CEO of Logistics Plus, wrote in his blog Berlin’s Wall that two businesses are moving into Union Station. Great news. Berlin also said that Logistics Plus has added 20 employees [...]

Read the full post

WRTS-FM “Star 104″ edged out WXBB “Bob FM” in the latest quarterly radio ratings. The complete ratings for Erie area commercial stations can be found here on Radio and Records. For those you you too young to remember, ‘radio stations’ transmit audio and were popular before computers, iPods, MP3 players and satellite receivers.
It was extremely [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

 
My favorite Christmas story this year has got to be what happened to the Erie Brewing Company. Erie Brewing makes seasonal beers. Their winter seasonal was to be called Red Ryder Big Beer. In either a great marketing ploy or because of a couple of trial lawyers, they changed the name. It’s called ‘Ol Red [...]

Read the full post

Darren Amy and Joseph Dille, both 19 year old Saegertown volunteer firefighters, were arrested and charged with arson for setting 9 fires in the Saegertown area. The duo set fires to vacant houses and then helped put the fires out.
 
There will be a citizenship ceremony at the Erie Federal Courthouse today at 10 am. All [...]

Read the full post

The committee of the state Supreme Court Disciplinary Board recommended two years of probation for Erie attorney John Mizner. Mizner stole nearly $70,000 from his former law firm by jacking up his travel expenses. When he was questioned about it, he repaid the money and left the firm. His excuse was that he suffers from [...]

Read the full post

Paragon Promotions of Erie is suspected running a fundraising scam. Greenville-West Salem (PA) Township police are investigating the company for running a bogus fundraising campaign for the Greenville Fire Department and its union. Numerous phone calls were made to Greenville area residents asking for donations so the fire department could purchase fire safety books for [...]

Read the full post

The Greater Erie Board of Realtors reported the Erie County real
estate sales for October 2007. Sales were in line with the previous
year. The data includes all sales in which a property transfer tax was paid including residential, investment and commercial properties as well as land. In October 2007, there were 437 sales for $50,540,472 vs [...]

Read the full post

Erie City Council held their biweekly meeting last evening. They might have well just stayed home because they got nothing accomplished. They are expected to make decisions. They can’t grasp the concept. Organized activity to accomplish an objective: Action. Learn it. Live it. They afraid about making decisions? Cripe, they re-elected anyway.
Item 1: The Erie [...]

Read the full post

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 [...]

Read the full post

 
The 10th annual Run Around Erie takes place today at Presque Isle State Park. The run spawned one of my favorite “Only in Erie” stories. It use to go through the streets of the city. The run went down Ash St and then west. A few years ago during the race, the corner convenience store [...]

Read the full post

 
Lerhonda Anne Starnes of North East, PA stabbed her boyfriend Tony Orlando Frazzini of Erie when he told her he was a Megan’s Law registered sex offender. Frazzini was convicted in NY in 1993. Starnes was charged with attempted homicide in the incident which took place in Butler, PA. If you are going to break [...]

Read the full post

Andrew Keel was arrested and arraigned for a Wednesday home invasion of 90 year old man’s apartment at the Sarah A Reed Retirement Center. Keel broke in through a screen window, stole items and assaulted the man. For some reason Keel wasn’t charged with attempted murder even though he twice tried to kill the victim [...]

Read the full post

 
Erie Shipbuilding held a christening ceremony yesterday for the first ships built in Erie in 34 years. The ships are the 245 ft dump scow WITTE 4003 and the 166 ft deck barge SUE B. Jeff at Erie Shipping News was there and has an excellent post on the event.
 
The Erie County Office of Children [...]

Read the full post

Best known for her Emmy Award winning role as Blanche Devereaux on the hit television comedy series Golden Girls, actress Rue McClanahan is promoting her new book “My First Five Husbands…And The Ones That Got Away”. Her first job was in Erie, Pennsylvania at the Erie Playhouse. It was during this time that Rue met [...]

Read the full post

 
General McLane won the Pennsylvania Class AAA basketball championship defeating Greencastle-Antrim 57-55. General McLane also won the state Class AAA football title. That’s the first time in Pennsylvania a school has won both titles in the same school year.
 
On Friday, forty-four people took the oath and became US citizens in a ceremony held at the [...]

Read the full post

The US Census Bureau released their Annual Estimates of the Population for Counties. According to their guess, the population of Erie County as of July 1, 2006 was 279,811. That’s down 373 people from 2005 estimate of 280,184. The 2000 census figure was 280,843.
 
The US Committee For Refugees and Immigrants is officially merging with the [...]

Read the full post

On Tuesday, County Council Chairman Fiore Leone had a sheriff’s deputy remove Dan Galena from Erie County Council Chambers. Galena is a Republican who is running for the District 7 seat on council. Galena accused council of violating county rules and the Pennsylvania Sunshine Act. Here is the email I received from Mr Galena with [...]

Read the full post

Three fires claimed three lives in less than 24 hours. Richard Hunt of Corry died in his East Main Street home in a fire that broke out around 1 pm. A fire at 457 West Front St broke out around 2:45 and claimed the life of a women. I’m selling the home next door at [...]

Read the full post

 
Home Depot released in an SEC 8-K filing that Tom Ridge of Erie will not run for election to their board of directors. Ridge was appointed to the board in 2005. When former Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli left the company in January, he received a pay package worth $210 million under an agreement negotiated [...]

Read the full post

The Manufacturers’ Association of Northwest Pennsylvania announced they will file a lawsuit against the Erie County smoking ban. In a letter addressed to Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio and Council Chairman Fiore Leone, Manufacturers’ Association President Ralph Pontillo announced the Association’s plans to seek legal action, after receiving overwhelming response to a smoking-ban poll that [...]

Read the full post

 
Former city employee Dan Borgia, a Mario Bagnoni Democrat who must feel like he hasn’t done enough damage to the city, was on WJET-TV yesterday saying he wants the city to adopt a system for real estate taxes in the city of Erie which would have a much higher rate for land and a lower [...]

Read the full post

The state is returning $1.5 million in tax money to Erie County. Here is the complete press release. The highlights -
GE Transportation Systems in Erie received $500,000 to implement lean manufacturing techniques at its rail plants in Erie and Grove City, Mercer County, a project that is expected to cost $12.8 million. GE has [...]

Read the full post

The curfew in the City of Erie for children under 18 went into effect last night. Kids will have to be home 10 pm to 6 am Sunday through Thursday and midnight to 6 am Friday and Saturday. During school breaks kids will have to be home midnight to 6 am. Exceptions are made for [...]

Read the full post

Erie City Council held a Saturday budget session and rubber stamped the budget submitted by Mayor Joe Sinnott making only one minor change of $24,000 to the $59.9 million budget. The formal vote on the budget will be held at the regular council meeting on December 20. Council made no cuts to the budget only [...]

Read the full post

The National Weather Service reported Erie received 13 inches of snow. Erie Kansas, not Erie PA. It rained here. A ton of rain. Many places received more than 2 inches. Riviera Estates Mobile Home Park at 14th and Marshall Dr in Millcreek flooded, as usual. The quicker the Erie International Airport runway expansion happens the [...]

Read the full post

 
Auditor General Jack Wagner released an audit of the City of Erie Aggregate Pension Fund, which found that a new retirement provision enacted by the city in 2004 resulted in the city’s receipt of $893,745 of excess state pension aid from the commonwealth. Wagner said the $893,745 of excess state aid identified in the audit [...]

Read the full post

Presque Isle Downs will be opening on February 16, 2007. The thoroughbred racetrack with pari-mutuel wagering and a slots-only casino is located at the intersection of I-90 and Route 97 (Exit 27).
Job applicants may apply online by clicking here. They will be hiring soon and should employ 600-900 people. They need all sorts of people [...]

Read the full post

The Villages is a retirement community in Florida. Population about 8,500. Because there are so many former residents of the northwestern Pennsylvania area they formed a social club called the Erie Club. In the club’s second month in existence, Madge Koscelnik, the group’s leader said 75 people attended a meeting earlier this week.
We’re still a [...]

Read the full post

 
The Greater Erie Board of REALTORS released the Erie County property transfer report for October. For Oct 2006, 432 properties were exchanged for $47,279, 377. The Oct 2005 figures were 512 transactions for $61,760,628. This marks the fifth straight decline year-over-year. Year to date, the 2006 totals are down $29,904,788 and 280 transactions compared to 2005. [...]

Read the full post

Erie received it’s first sizable snow storm. The city and the airport, where the official totals are measured, got about 3 inches. There was about 9 inches near the Millcreek Mall and a foot was connon in other places. I think I heard the phrase “This sucks” over 100 times yesterday. O course people don’t [...]

Read the full post

Erie Insurance (Nasdaq: ERIE) announced financial results for the third quarter 2006. Net income was $52.8 million for the third quarter of 2006 compared to $53.0 million at September 30, 2005. Net income per share increased 7.9 percent to $0.82 per share, compared to $0.76 per share in the comparable quarter of 2005. [...]

Read the full post

Barb Dougherty, a postal carrier, was attacked by a squirrel and bitten several times while delivering mail in Oil City. Dougherty was taken by ambulance to the hospital where she was treated for bites, cuts and scratches, and given rabies shots. The squirrel was shot and will be tested for rabies.
 
The Avalon Hotel in downtown [...]

Read the full post

Levonne Rowan of Erie was arrested in Madison, Wisconsin for carrying a concealed weapon after a traffic stop on the University of Wisconsin campus. Levonne, Dywon Rowan, his brother and a running back on the Wisconsin football team, and younger brother Javon Rowan were three of five individual that were in a vehicle after police [...]

Read the full post

I don’t think the people of Erie realize how bad the Buffalo area got hit with snow. There are 390,000 people without power. The Erie hotels are packed with refugees from WNY and cars are streaming down I-90 for food, gas, generators and batteries.
On a realated note.. There is now a severe blood shortage in [...]

Read the full post

The Erie Times-News repoted today that Dr Chuck Rosenthal and his brothers, Peter and James, have filed a lawsuit against former Mercyhurst College President William Garvey and Mercyhurst board of trustees chairwoman Marlene Mosco. Chuck Rosenthal was the first to publically accuse Gavey of sexually assualting him. A number of others, think the number is [...]

Read the full post

Rexnord will acquire Zurn Industries, Jacuzzi’s plumbing fixtures and fittings manufacturing business in Erie, Pa, and will create a new water management business at Rexnord. Separately, RBS’s private equity owner Apollo Management has agreed to purchase whirlpool bath and spa manufacturer Jacuzzi Brands (NYSE: JJZ) in a $1.25 billion deal. Al Marini of Erie, president [...]

Read the full post

The Center for eBusiness and Advanced Information Technology (eBizITPA) is selling it’s web-based reverse auction tool eDynaQuote. eBizITPA provides education and training programs in e-business and advanced information technology processes. “eBizITPA has effectively completed its role as originator and incubator of eDQ,” according to Susan Breon, president of eBizITPA. “The business possesses a solid fixed [...]

Read the full post

The conversations around Erie centered on Chytoria Graham and what she did to her baby. Graham used her 1 month old baby to strike her boyfriend. The baby is in a Pittsburgh hospital in a drug induced coma with brain damage. There were reports that she confessed to police. What a despicable crime. Tom Vinca, [...]

Read the full post

Chytoria Graham is in jail facing assault and other charges after using her 1 month old baby as a weapon to hit her boyfriend. She swung the baby to hit him as if it was a frying pan. Her own baby. The child was flown to Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh. She should have her [...]

Read the full post

Within 10 years, over 1 million people will be working in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) industry. RFID is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or [...]

Read the full post

Erie native Eric Michael Hopper, now living in Buford GA, will make his TV debut this morning on CBS’s “The Early Show.” Hopper won “The Early Show’s Living Room Live” talent competition. He will perform “I Want to Be.” His songs recently hit the 1 millionth play on MySpace.
US Rep Phil English of Erie has [...]

Read the full post

Millcreek School District Superintendent Dean Maynard should be the next to submit his resignation. McDowell Intermediate High School principal Tom Maciulewicz was allowed to resign instead of being fired after it was discovered there is police investigation involving Maciulewicz and the theft of school district property. There seems to be a clear path from the [...]

Read the full post

There are a lot of deer in Pennsylvania and in the other states Erie Insurance serves. One in every 100 drivers nationally is likely to have a collision with a deer. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimates that deer-vehicle crashes rack up $1.1 billion in property damages, tens of thousands of injuries, and [...]

Read the full post

A chemical reaction at the Steris plant sent one man to the hospital as a precaution and closed the facility for the day sending hundreds of workers home. The gas vapor was caused by the mixing of waste products that didn’t mix.
An Erie, Pa. man pleaded guilty to copyright infringement in U.S. District Court in [...]

Read the full post

McDowell Intermediate High School Principal Tom Maciulewicz resigned Friday. Someone sent me word that Millcreek police are conducting an investigation of some missing school equipment and that the equipment was sold on eBay.
Jeff Taylor has been hired as the meteorologist for CBS Chicago weekend morning news. Taylor was at WICU-TV in Erie, Pa from [...]

Read the full post

 
Today is the final day for Celebrate Erie 2006 which ends with a massive fireworks display at 10 pm. The fireworks will be set off from Dobbins Landing.
Here’s the entertainment schedule for today:
Main stage at 4th and State:
1 pm Dance Connection
2:30 pm Litte’s Dance
3:45 pm Next of Kin
5:45 pm Train of Love
7:30 Spotlight Dance
8 pm [...]

Read the full post

There was a huge crowd at Celebrate Erie 2006 on Friday. There was an estimated 40-50,000 thousand people with 20-25,000 on hand to watch the Beach Boys. The Beach Boys turned out to be a very good choice with pre-teens to people old enough to be their great grandparents enjoying their show which lasted over [...]

Read the full post

On December 4th, 2005, the Buckeye arrived at Erie Shipbuilding in Erie, PA under tow of the tug Olive L Moore. The tug was mated with the Buckeye becoming a new articulated tug/barge unit. The Buckeye became the first vessel in 9 years to be drydocked at the Erie shipyard when she entered. The vessle [...]

Read the full post

RentWay (NYSE: RWY) reported financial results for the quarter. For the third quarter, the Company reported revenues of $135.4 million versus $128.3 million in the same quarter last year. Revenues from the Company’s core rental business (which excludes the Company’s dPi Teleconnect unit) were $131.5 million versus $124.2 million in the same quarter last year, [...]

Read the full post

Congrats to Jenny and Mike on the birth of their son Grady Matthew. Grady was 7 pounds, 9 ounces. Both mother and son are healthy and doing great.
Me: When is the Erie Management Group going to start the move to the former Hammermill/ IP plant and have their groundbreaking?
Boss man: They have already begun to [...]

Read the full post

An Erie man drowned in Presque Isle Bay in an apparent suicide. Gerald Michalski of West 8th Street, walked into the water near the foot of Virginia Ave and Ravine Drive near the Erie Yacht Club. Witnesses at Ferncliff Beach said he left some personal items on shore and simply walked in over his head. [...]

Read the full post

Two kids from Harborcreek Youth Services carjacked a van from their counselor on Saturday. Police caught them shortly afterwards. The pair faces of long list of charges.
The Pennsylvania Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) has named Kasandra Botti, DO, an emergency physician at Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College, as 2006 [...]

Read the full post

A man was robbed and stabbed yesterday at 15th and Ash Streets, an area referred to as Crack Alley. For those of you who don’t know the area, just feet away from where the man was robbed is the razor wire topped fence of the Erie County Prison. Anyone ever think about outdoor security cameras [...]

Read the full post

Orson Welles cause near paic with a radio broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’ in 1938 when people thought it was a real alien invasion. The Northwestern Pennsylvania Emergency Response Group 2 terorism drill yesterday in Franklin was halted when a citizen called 911 in Erie to report a bombing. It resumed later when it [...]

Read the full post

Nick Scott is quoted in todays Cleveland Plain Dealer saying that plans are in the works for another expansion of Splash Lagoon Indoor Water Park in Erie. Why? To keep the large crowds coming back they want to keep the place fresh. Just last year two new slides, another hot tub, another restaurant and more [...]

Read the full post

Saturday was the 2006 MECA United Cerebral Palsy Barstool Open. The event packed downtown Erie bars with 1,200 participants and raised $30,000 for a great cause.
Good job by the Erie Times-News on the story about the taxpayer rip-off by Bac Consulting doing computer work for the Erie County Office of Children and Youth. After spending [...]

Read the full post

Thomas J Gamble, PhD, president-elect of Mercyhurst College, released changes within his new administration that will take effect March 1 when he assumes the presidency. Nothing big expect someone of the pay raises. They are still seem to be puppets of Garvey and Mosco.
A restructure of the Office of the President has resulted in three [...]

Read the full post

This could be the first tax I have ever agreed with. State Representative John Pallone (D-New Kensington) introduced House Bill 2454 which will levy a $100 fee on every resident in communities with 9,000 or more people that require state police because they are too cheap to have their own police force. My state taxes [...]

Read the full post

Connoisseur Media is buying the six Next Media radio stations in Erie: Rocket 101, WRKT FM 100.9; Star 104, WRTS FM 103.7; Froggy 94, WFGO FM 94.7; Sports Radio 1330, the Fan, WFNN AM 1330; Jet Radio, WJET AM 1400; and US 93, WUSE FM 93.9.
A radio station used to be [...]

Read the full post

So you’re a high school punk that doesn’t want to say ‘Want fries with that?’ or ‘Thanks for shopping at Wal-Mart’ for the next 50 years. The answer is to get an education. There is a good article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette today on how to get into the college of your choice. The [...]

Read the full post

On Friday the Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority said things are smelling like roses and on Monday Wall Street said the smell is in fact manure. Fitch Ratings affirmed the ‘BB+’ rating on approximately $5.0 million Erie-Western Pennsylvania Port Authority revenue bonds.Their Rating Outlook is Negative. BB+ is only one step above junk bond status.The port [...]

Read the full post

The Greater Erie Unity Committee (no website as it is still about 1994 for most people in Erie County) announced that they now have enough signatures to place the question or weather or not to form a study commission to consider a merger between the City of Erie and Millcreek Township. The study will likely [...]

Read the full post

The Erie newspaper is running a story tomorrow on Mike O’Brien and his song “Erie PA” which can be found on his website. The song has become a bit of a sensation. I’m guessing a couple of thousand of people have heard it. It’s got going to win any award from the chamber of commerce [...]

Read the full post

Members of Erie Police SWAT team got two bank robbers before they entered the National City Bank on East 38th Street in Erie. Someone tipped off police. A dozen officers surround their vehicle in the parking lot and they surrendered without incident. The FBI is charging them today with a laundry list of charges including [...]

Read the full post

The City of Erie budget talks continue to headline the area news. The budget is still millions from being balanced. Instead of looking for cuts, the majority of council (Jim Thompson, Jim Casey, Ian Murray, Joseph Sinnott) seem to have taken the cowards way out and are calling for a property tax increase to make [...]

Read the full post

Amanda Barren announced that today will be her last day at WJET-TV. That sucks. The smart, talented, attractive young lady will be moving to West Virginia. I get the feeling that won’t be the last time you see her on TV in Erie. It’s just a matter of time until we see her on a [...]

Read the full post

Pennsylvania Act 47 is the law that allows the state to take over cities that qualify for ‘distressed city status.’ Every day that passes, this looks more likely. There are a couple of people in Harrisburg that should pack their bags and start filling out change of address forms. Yesterday, instead of working on budget [...]

Read the full post

If you’re down on the bayfront you can’t help but notice that there is a large ship (nearly 700 feet long) is docked at the Erie Shipbuilding facility. A barge called Buckeye arrived in Erie over the weekend. Erie Shipbuilding is a joint venture of Van Enkevort Tug and Barge and K and K Warehousing. [...]

Read the full post

As expected, the Baylor University Board of Regents named Baylor Distinguished Alumnus and University of Nevada, Reno President Dr John M Lilley as the University’s 13th president. The son of a Louisiana Baptist pastor, Dr Lilley, 66, majored in music at Baylor, earning bachelor’s degrees in 1961 and 1962 and a master of music degree [...]

Read the full post