What If?

Erie County Executive Mark DiVecchio, and Chief of Staff Sean Wiley pulled out the stops for DiVecchio’s Town Hall Meeting in North East Wednesday evening.  Attending were the majority of county government department heads, who outnumbered the interested citizens.  So much for interest in how government makes the choices they make!
Each director gave a brief […]

County Executive Mark Divecchio is planning to convene a ‘meeting of local elected officials’ within the next couple of weeks, to discuss how to best lobby Governor  Rendell for the 43.5 million dollars needed for the updates to the Tullio Arena.
It would seem to me that there are many more important areas that should be upgraded, […]

In an article in the ETN and on goerie this morning, it was brought out that the Koehler Brewery Square Partnership is now trying to talk the City of Erie into accepting an interest or full ownership (not sure which, yet) in the artifacts that were saved and stored during the destruction of the Erie […]

The headlines in the ETN and at GoErie were glaringly clear–”Public May Lose $850,000″. Having defaulted on their loans, the group of Erieites who are already into the National City Bank for $825,000, are not going to fight the sheriff’s sale of the “worthless” property.
Since the property has so little value, it is unlikely that […]

There’s a lot happening in Erie this week and next, which will have an impact, good or negative, on the future of the city and surrounding areas.  It does look to me like a lot of the happenings will be a positive thing.
First, the bad news;  It seems likely that taxpayers are about to lose the […]

There is a very positive article in today’s (Sunday) Erie Times-News and at GoErie.com highlighting the efforts of an Erie area plastics firm to develop ways to recycle certain types of plastics that until now were not reusable.
Kurt Duska, of Engineered Plastics has been working on this idea for some time now, and is the […]