We blogged yesterday that fired EMTA bus driver David Justka’s union is fighting his firing. He has struck three people in the last few years, killing a local surgeon. He should never drive a bus again. The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency will provide more then a million dollars to a program to develop housing in [...]

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Indianapolis Colts DB and Erie native Bob Sanders was profiled by WISH-TV in Indianapolis. The station traveled to Erie to interview Bob’s parents. Stephan Koller of GE Transportation in Erie had his letter to the editor of the Jakarta Post published in today’s edition.  He responded to the newspaper’s previous coverage of Erie and the [...]

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  Herbert Fiss passed away earlier this week. Fiss is the guy who tricked the city in to giving him a quarter million dollars when he said he was going to build a fruit juice plant in the Erie area. He called his sceme IFP North America. Erie was at least the third city where [...]

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  Governor Raymond P Shafer of Meadville passed away. He served as governor of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1971. Governor Shafer served a one-year appointment as president of the Allegheny College in 1985 and was a trustee for more than forty years. Shafer graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Allegheny in 1938. He served as his [...]

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Erie County Judge John Bozza has ruled in favor of Invest Erie Community Development Corporation against the city. The city wanted to allow a private developer take over the grocery store project at 19th and Parade Streets. It appears the incompetence by Invest Erie has been matched by city officials who wrote up the contract [...]

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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 [...]

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