The People Demand It!

A great fake-car ad from one of my favorite bloggers, Iowahawk.  Enjoy!

Your nine-year-old dies in a drowning incident at a City of Erie park.  Your 15-year-old nephew is shot to death in a shooting incident, and you’re caught in a mob at the shooting scene, and you get elbowed in the face by a cop and lose a few teeth.  So what do you do?
Sue the […]

I’m not a big fan of raising people’s taxes by any means.  However, for critical lifesaving services I think it is justified.
The Millcreek Township Supervisors are raising the Emergency Services Tax from ten dollars to 52 dollars according to yourerie.com.  The Supervisors state that not even 40 percent of township residents donate to the volunteer […]

There is this interesting op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today from Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, who interned with John Kerry’s campaign during the 2004 election, and I just wanted to share it with you.
Agree or disagree, it is thought provoking.  And a Democrat wrote it.

When the new Erie County 911 Center was built, certain Erie County Council members decided it wasn’t necessary for the place to have lightning arrestors installed to protect all the expensive electronic equipment, such as computers and radios.
Apparently, there are rumors swirling about the 911 center going offline completely according this story yourerie.com.    From […]

Mayor Sinnott held a townhall meeting Wednesday afternoon, according to WJET.  The meeting was at the Sarah Reed home.  According to Assistant to the Mayor Laura Schaaf:
“When we hear that there are problems with speeding, or street signs or tree limbs those are things then that I go back and make sure that we take […]

Tomorrow, the Senate is going to take up the massive bailout of mortgage companies.  Democrats are blaming it on Republicans, but is that the truth of the matter?  Watch this video and take what you want from it.  Then call your senators and congresspeople and tell them to “Kill the Bill”.  Enough of them spending […]

There is this little snippet on yourerie.com about the Erie County budget being published in electronic form.  I’ve said before that Erie is usually ten years behind most everyone else, in this case the County is only about five years behind, so I guess a kudos is in order!  From GoErie:
Erie County government’s 2009 budget […]