It’s Friday and it’s snowing.

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What makes a Country Fair an Express compared to a regular Country Fair? These are the questions that boggle my mind.

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We live in Erie, right? Shouldn’t we be waist deep in the white stuff right about now?

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Live on, Bambi…the weather’s on your side.

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In lieu of the news of GE’s recent order for 300 Evolution locomotive assemblies, here’s a promotional video for the engines, which are made here in Erie at GE Transportation.

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Erie friends, we need your help. We got a question in to the site asking what’s being built at 2 local locations. One is on 26th Street near the old Rex location, and another spot near 26th and Caughey. The one near Rex looks like a Wendy’s, which would make sense in that location. Anyone [...]

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I was lucky enough to win a 2009 Creative Spark award from the Advertising Federation of Northwest PA, and the ceremony was this past Friday night at the Sheraton on the bayfront. First – I haven’t really been down there to the Sheraton or the convention center (how about a tour, convention center folks? We’ll [...]

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Peter at GlobalErie.com blogged that GE Transportation will build a new $100 million battery manufacturing facility in outside Albany, NY. It sure would be nice to have that plant here. We’ve heard some additional lay-offs planned for GE Transportation here in Erie in the coming weeks and months. Hopefully they are temporary.
Governor Edward G. Rendell [...]

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This week’s blog post of the week relates very closely to the news this week of layoffs at GE Transportation.
Jim Berlin is CEO of Logistics Plus. GE is, in Jim’s words, their “#1 customer,” and he talks about how are all in this together locally. We bet a lot of local businesses will see [...]

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1,550 people were laid off today at GE Transportation, the region’s largest employer. 350 of the positions will be permanent, and the other jobs may be called back as work warrants.
If you were one of the people laid off today at GE or perhaps a friend of family member was, our thoughts are with you. [...]

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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 [...]

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