More jobs here, and in Texas?

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Lyons Den Productions is proud to announce the home entertainment release of “Schism”, their award-winning, dramatic feature film. Told from the perspective of the afflicted, “Schism” is the story of one man’s decent into the world of Alzheimer’s dementia and has been praised by critics, audiences, and care professionals for its realistic portrayal of the [...]

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The City of Erie School District preliminary budget calls for a spending increase of about $6 million to $129.3 million. All members of the school board are tax and spend Democrats. The figures don’t include money to rehab or rebuild Roosevelt Middle School which might not be funded until next year. WSEE TV posted two [...]

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Karma. Former state representative Linda Bebko-Jones and her then chief of staff, Mary Fiolek, were formally charged with forging nominating petitions and submitting the fraudulent forms to the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Bebko-Jones and Fiolek are scheduled to surrender next week and appear before Harrisburg Magisterial District Judge Joseph Solomon for preliminary arraignment. According to [...]

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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 [...]

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  Swamp Zombies is being released on Tuesday May 8. The DVD will be available at KillerWolfFilms.com, FYE Music and Movies, Suncoast, Best Buy , Circuit City and other video outlets. Swamp Zombies features Shannon Solo, WWE superstar Blue Meanie, XXX legend Jasmin St Claire, UFC hall of famer Dan “the beast” Severn and sexy [...]

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  Erie wound up with 25 inches of snow with the Holiday Blizzard of 2006. That’s Erie Colorado. Here in Erie PA, a high temperature of 51 degrees is expected for the first full day of Winter.   Test results showed Andrew Polakowski of Erie, a McDowell grad and a freshman at Ohio State, was [...]

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Great story in today’s Erie newspaper about Erie photo blogger Ron Richardson and his pics of his rubber duck. Erie blogger Michael Mahler was mentioned in a Slate.com article about his comments concerning former Rep Mark Foley. Some drunk hit a telephone pole on Pine Avenue at 2:15 am breaking the pole in two. Power [...]

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Erie Seawolves starting outfielder Vincent Blue will be making a return trip to Binghamton NY after the SeaWolves season ends. He had a misdemeanor charge logged against him early Sunday morning from a complaint by a cab driver. Blue was given an appearance ticket charging him with petty larceny and released on $250 bail. Blue [...]

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The state returned $17 million in tax dollars to the Erie area on Friday with five grants through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program. The Erie Bayfront Convention Center received $6.5 million for a 300 space parking ramp, Gannon University received $4 million for their Erie Technology Incubator which will allow for the renovations to the [...]

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A woman has filed a protection from abuse (PFA) order against Erie City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. Jones, who is married, had a relationship with the woman who gave birth to this child. This affair was going on during his campaign for council. This is the person we’re trusting with our tax dollars and the [...]

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“Money, guns and lawyers. Once you have that, you have everything. It’s all you need in life.” That’s a quote from MTR Gaming CEO Ted Arneault in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer. The paper interviewed him about Presque Isle Downs in Erie and his other tracks and casinos. Presque Isle Downs, now under construction at a [...]

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Open up your wallet. Erie County Council wants to spend more of your money. Erie County Public Safety Director Joseph Weindorf wants to hire 4 new employees for the new $14 million public safety building. The idea of the building was to consolidate county public safety operations. In most of the know universe, consolidate and [...]

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Alcor, the Erie Zoo polar bear, died yesterday just hours after surgery to help stablize his broken wrist. The bear spend over 2 hours in recovery and was just minutes into the trip from the University of Pennsylvania New Bolton Center near Philadelphia to the Cleveland Zoo for rehab when his heart stopped. A 93 [...]

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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, [...]

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The blood supply dropped to the lowest levels of the year, endangering patients of all types at area hospitals. The Fourth of July holiday proved to be the worst holiday weekend in years for the blood supply with very heavy blood use at regional hospitals. Everyone is urged to take the 30 minutes out to [...]

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Ian Murray wants the job he was fired from nearly 12 years ago. No private business would re-hire someone who has been fired from their job for wrongdoing but Erie County might. Murray wants a position in the Erie County Public Defender’s Office. Murray was fired for having coerced a client of the Erie County [...]

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