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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Ray Petelin is my home boy. He’ll be missed here in Erie.

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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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Fail me once, shame on you. Fail me twice…

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We’re the only local news site that looks good on your smartphone or iPad.

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Bremner was a blogger before the word was created.

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I wanted to start off today’s post by saying thanks for reading this site. You keep me going to produce content every day, so thanks for being awesome. Strong storms that blew through the region yesterday caused some flooding in areas around Erie and Crawford Counties. If you use the Presque Isle Branch of the [...]

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The Federal Highway Administration (FHA) rejected Pennsylvania’s application to make I-80 a toll road. A factor for why the FHA rejected the application is because it believed the money that would be paid to the state was not based on an objective market valuation. “There is simply no evidence that the lease payments are related [...]

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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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This week’s Erie video of the week is a tour of WSEE’s production facilities. It’s a really neat behind the scenes look at local news production. Despite not having a news director, the show must go on.

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I don’t really agree with it, but I have to give then credit for being creative. Seems like the Erie County Council and Erie City Council have reached a deal to fund the Erie Airport runway expansion project. The county will contribute at least $18 million toward the project in exchange for appointing 4 of [...]

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As you may know, Erie been designated by the National Football League as part of the Buffalo Bills TV market. That means when the Bills are playing away, Steelers and Browns fans are out of luck. The local CBS station is playing the Browns/Steelers this weekend, but if you’d rather watch it with a ton [...]

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Raychel Vendetti and Ray Petelin of WSEE are doing double duty hosting “IE Live!” on KHIZ-TV, a 30 minute news show. The show is being touted as being a local Victorville, CA show but Vendetti and Petelin are doing the it via satellite in Erie PA, 2360 miles away. It appears KHIZ are deceiving the [...]

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Horace Hawes was a native of Danby, New York and spent a number of years in Erie PA. In Erie County, Hawes became deputy attorney general, county prosecutor and a commissioner of deeds. President Polk sent him to be the US Council for the South Seas Islands and later appointed him prefect of the District [...]

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Erie City Council will work on the 2006 City of Erie budget this week. There are reports that the mayor’s proposed budget call for over 60 more layoffs. Interesting how it calls cuts to the Streets Department, Parks Department, Bureau of Police and the Fire Department but few at city hall. A week ago, Mike [...]

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WSEE is moving from downtown Erie. The WSEE building at 1220 Peach Street is listed for sale. The asking price is $ 625,000.00. Twice the Erie Zoning Board has rejected their request for a new downtown tower on the building. That and along with the financial mess the City of Erie is in, with warnings [...]

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A press conference is scheduled for Monday at 10:30 am to announce that Family First Sports Park is being given free to the YMCA of Greater Erie. Gary Renaud and his family own Family First as well as Erie Steel Products. Renaud founded Family First about 10 years ago to give kids a place to [...]

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WSEE is the CBS station shown in the Caribbean on the Primetime24 satellite. The New York Times did a story on the station because WSEE has a separate taped weather forecast for the Caribbean. Satellite viewers don’t see the Erie forecast but they do see our local news. WSEE’s meteorologists do four daily weather reports [...]

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