Outside Erie

As a Buffalo Bills fan, I’d love nothing more than to see Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, Rodney Harrison and their fellow New England Patriots suffer.
But as a citizen of the United States, and one who cares about the fortunes of Pennsylvania, I want to send a message to Sen. Arlen Specter.
Stop wasting our time with […]

Reader MGR brought up some great questions in his recent comment on the Kanzius cancer research:

I bet we could get this financed privately at a pretty minimal cost relative to the potential of the project and while retaining control. Because of the failure rate on research, this can be difficult, but as his project continues […]

Popular Science is the latest major media outlet to pick up on the John Kanzius story.
The story doesn’t offer much by way of news, but it offers a cool, well-written perspective on Kanzius and his cancer-fighting machine.
Here’s the lede:

When a man with no medical degree and a diagnosis of fatal leukemia builds a cancer-curing machine […]

Erie native Gretchen Gierach is the author of a new study about aspirin reducing the risk of breast cancer.
Her husband, fellow Erie native Andy Benson, sent me a note last night spotlighting the accomplishment — and wondering why such discoveries aren’t happening in his hometown.
Here’s some of what he had to say.

My wife Gretchen and […]

60 Minutes looks like it’s ready to air its profile of Millcreek’s John Kanzius this Sunday.
John sent me a short e-mail late this afternoon saying that the piece is finally on target to air.
I look forward to seeing how the story gets treated by the world’s preeminent news magazine.
Here’s a preview from the show’s Web […]

Well, well, well. You all have made my job difficult this week.
Not only has this been a record-setting week in terms of the volume of comments on this blog. It was also a record-setter in terms of quality. So many members of this community took time to create detailed, thoughtful, and provocative posts that it […]

Dennis Schmidt offers this week’s top comment.
Dennis wrote in response to the recent posts about a Florida hospital getting the go-ahead to become a part of the clinical trials for John Kanzius’ cancer-treatment procedure.
We received several similar comments on this issue — and I think Dennis’ point really sums up the frustration many in Erie […]

The news that Erie is behind in the effort to host human trials for the testing of John Kanzius’ radiowave-based cancer treatment is sparking a lot of strong opinions.
And many folks are frustrated in the inability of local leaders to be aggressive in advocating for Erie.
That frustration is magnified when you consider that there have […]

Erie has a right to be proud of John Kanzius’ effort to develop an effective new treatment for cancer.
But if it doesn’t get its act together, it could soon lose out on an opportunity to be on the short list of cities that is hosting the human trials.
News reports out of both Florida and Erie […]

We don’t know his or her name.
We don’t know what motivated this person to take action.
We don’t know exactly what this person’s generosity will mean for the Erie region moving forward.
But what we do know is this — an anonymous person chose to give $100 million to charities through the Erie Community Foundation. And by […]