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. [...]

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Pennlive.com has compiled a list of 329 establishments (either restaurants, bars or businesses) in the commonweath who have had violations of the state’s smoking ban reported to the Department of Health. Here the ones from Erie: Coney Island Lunch, 3015 Buffalo Road Erie Wastewater Treatment, 68 Port Access Road General Electric Transportation Systems, 2901 E. [...]

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Thee are two economic development related press conferences scheduled for today. Nothing new but it’s nice to hear it officially.Brad Fairfield of Koehler Brewery Square will announce that he has received funding. Urbaniak Brothers Meat Market, Pennsylvania Wine and Spirts, and Cornerstone Healthcare Group, a long term healthcare medical care, will be moving into the [...]

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