When a local reporter gets tapped to cover a professional sports championship, its a plum of an assignment that makes up for all those miserable quarters of high school football in the sleet, or the mind-numbing innings of a pitching dual. What makes covering the championship of the National Football League unique, is that depending [...]

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Last year at this time I expressed my disappointment, and the P&T community had a lively discussion over the lack of special coverage in Erie and other local NBC markets during the network’s Education Nation week. This year, I’m excited and congratulate Lisa Adams, News Director and the WICU/WSEE reporting team for taking advantage of [...]

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All this week, media channels in Erie and around the globe have been filled with stories and special programming marking the 10 years since the devastating events of September 11, 2001 in New York City, Washington, DC and Shanksville, PA. For me it is very easy to jump back a decade to that profound sense [...]

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In our poll last week about the media navel-gazing over their Hurricane Irene coverage, the majority of readers of P&T participating in our poll thought that the level of coverage was appropriate. Of course, that whole conversation died down when people saw the video of the real inland flooding damage in places like Middlebury, VT [...]

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We got a pretty decent snowstorm over the weekend, and a few people emailed us to say they heard and saw thunder and lightning while it was snowing. Police have released a new image of the bank robber who moved on to Amherst and Sheffield Village, Ohio after hitting it up in PA. No arrests [...]

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WICU reported on the validity of rumors circulating that the community activist organization known as ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) has been engaging in voter fraud in Erie County.  According to WICU, ACORN has not had a presence in Erie for the last 15 months and the Erie County Elections Office has stated it [...]

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A fair amount of people find ErieBlogs.com each month by using search engines. As you may have seen this weekend, we get all kinds of funny and strange search terms that lead people to our site. In looking over our search terms for the last year, one person kept coming up a few hundred times [...]

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I was perusing some Erie websites tonight as I work on the as-yet-unannounced project, and I was looking at WICU’s new website. It’s not bad, better then their old site with all the java scrolling bars and what not. Then I noticed in their code they’re offering an RSS feed of their news. Nice, I [...]

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