The Supreme Court on Monday let stand a federal policy that allows employers to reduce their health insurance expenses for retired workers once they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare. In which may have been the last time Erie County did anything to try and save taxpayers money, the county offered non-Medicare eligible retirees the [...]

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Augustus Allen III, who was recently fired by the EMTA (Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority, the bus company), was arrested for making terroristic threats after he said he’d shoot the place up. Three adults and one juvenile in Erie have been arrested for threatening to repeat the Virginia Tech massacre.   The U S Brig Niagara [...]

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The Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled against surrogate mother Danielle Bimber and is ordering her to turn over the three children to James Flynn. This reverses the ruling by Erie County Judge Shad Connelly. The triplets were born on November of 2003 and Bimber has had them since that time. The court blamed both Bimber and [...]

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Edinboro University students Tyrell Ware and Marlon Gunn were found guilty of a number of charges for the beating of a man of April 2005. The two along with Urlene Boisette assaulted a fellow student who they thought turned them in to campus police. The three were busted by campus police for drugs and went [...]

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Life Line choose Jackson Township, Ohio over Erie, Pa for their new call center. Nice job by the Erie politicians and the 25 Erie area economic development agencies that have failed again. Life Line Screening, a Cleveland-based provider of preventive health screenings across the country will hire 120 employees with a starting pay of $10 [...]

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MTR Gaming Group (Nasdaq:MNTG) announced that it is pursuing the issuance of $125,000,000 of Senior Subordinated Notes through a private placement. The Company will use the net proceeds of the proposed private placement of Senior Subordinated Notes to complete construction of its Presque Isle Downs race track and slot machine facility, to pay the $50 [...]

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The City of Erie has laid-off police officers and firefighters, has millions in unpaid bills it can’t afford to pay and is generally close to the brink of financial disaster yet they are spending $30,l76 to plant 112 trees around the city. Maybe the trees will be put in the potholes on the streets we [...]

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Tommy Carr would have been 45 years old today. He was born on April 17, 1961. Tom was a two-time District 10 AAA Champion and two-time All-State wrestler for Tech Memorial. He kicked my ass pretty bad one year. He went on to wrestle for Clemson University where he graduated with a degree in electrical [...]

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Harborcreek Township received a $500,000 federal grant for the for its $2.6 million Shades Beach Off-Shore Improvements Project. The latest grant will be used for a walkway and parking. The next step will be boat launches and breakwalls which could be in place by next Fall. Shades Beach is located at 7000 East Lake Road [...]

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Trout fishing season opens in Pennsylvania today at 8 am. The US Brig Niagara will be prepared for the Summer sailing season today. The tarp will be removed and the masts (118 feet and 113 feet) and rigging will be installed. The Journal of Asian Martial Arts is a publication that examines the history, culture [...]

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Erie East High School grad Goran Rahim is now a published author. His book of poems is titled “A Faded Love“. Rahim was was born just miles outside the Kurdish city of Kirkuk, Iraq. He was 5 when Saddam Hussein began killing ethnic Kurds. His family fled to Pakistan. At age 16 his family resettled [...]

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A bomb threat cleared out the Erie County Courthouse for 2 hours yesterday morning. A search turned up nothing. Greater Erie Youth Symphony Orchestra Music Director Eduardo Espinel is amoung four finalists to become conductor and music director of the Amarillo TX Symphony. Espinel will conduct the Oct. 27-28 concerts. Born in Venezuela, Espinel studied [...]

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Erby Conley of Erie is a leading candidate to become the police commissioner of Easton, PA. Conley was Commander of Troop E of the Pennsylvania State Police in Erie and also served as Public Safety Director for the City of Erie. Penelec has filed for a rate increase of $157 million to $206 million. Rates [...]

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A microbrewery is being planned for the old Porter`s Restaurant in Union Station. I’m guessing they will be buying a Price-Schonstrom system. Chris Sirianni said they are planning to be open by July. The BrewErie At Union Station will be a brew-on-premises (BOP) brewpub. That I believe. The talk of a number of a number [...]

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In Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Black Knight wanted to continue to fight even though he had lost both arms and legs. King Arthur said “What are you gonna do, bleed on me”? This sounds like what’s happening in Erie with members of United Auto Workers Local 832 and Steris Corporation. Steris is [...]

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Jamison Roth of Erie spent part of his 4 years at California University of Pennsylvania as a member of the California Volunteer Fire Department. The CVFD has a Student Membership Program which allows university students to volunteer while they are away from their home departments. Roth got his start with the West Ridge Fire Department [...]

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Steris officials have to be kicking themselves for how they handled the closing of manufacturing in Erie. First, they gave the workers months of advance warning that they would be laid-off so they could look for other jobs or get retrained in another field. They only had to give a 90 day notice. Now the [...]

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This week Erie Mayor Joe Sinnott cost the taxpayers of Erie hundreds of thousands of dollars to appease the firefighters union with the re-opening of the Marsh Street Garage. Erie Firefighters worked on his campaign and contributed money to his campaign fund. Mayor Rick Filippi consolidated the garages of the police department, fire department and [...]

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Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Heedless and irresponsible behavior in the midst of a crisis continues today as Erie City Council comes together for their weekly meeting. The city is over $2 million dollars over budget with a strong possibilty of not being able to meet payroll later in the year and a state takeover [...]

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There is a possibility that Randy Brewer’s name could be returning to the ballot for the Spring primary for the1st Legislative District seat in the Pennsylvania State Assembly. Approximately 40 names on his nominating petition were challenged and he is appealing. Even his own signature was challenged. He signed his name Randy Brewer. The name [...]

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The owner of a strip club in Boise Idaho plead guilty to three misdemeanor charges that he violated the Boise anti-nudity law. He tried to get around the law by giving patrons sketch pads and pencils so they could draw the dancers in an attempt to make it ‘art.’ The judge cited the City of [...]

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