The People Demand It!

I found this story on firehouse.com, concerning career v volunteer fire department staffing in Lockport, NY - just outside of Buffalo.
While reading it, I immediately thought of the “maybe we will get a career fire department, or maybe we will stay volunteer, or maybe we will have both” situation in Millcreek Township.  I also thought […]

Another story on Goerie.com today suggests that the City of Erie Water Authority will be taking over the Millcreek Township Water Authority.
On GlobalErie, we have had a lot of discussions about independent authorities who don’t answer to the people directly.  So the City Water Authority taking over Millcreek’s is probably a good thing, in that […]

Thanks to Mike for the link to the Topix.com thread on Emergycare.  It seems that things are really getting heated on one side of the argument over there.  I mean, they’re really eating their own.
The one thing that I have noticed, is the usual bashing of people that have moved out-of-town to further their career […]

Firefighter Mike Zaccheo of the Belle Valley Fire Department has created a website about all of Erie County’s fire departments.  At eriepafire.com, you can check out pictures and information about your local fire department, as well as links to individual department websites.  So go check it out!

On Outside Erie recently, there was a contest to come up with a new slogan for Erie, the winner was “Great Lake, Great City, Great Life“. Now, we need a new term for what was originally called the “Rust Belt”. Danny Lucas says:
Who among us likes the term “rust belt”?
Yet, too many […]

The runway project has brought forth a recent discussion an even greater, underlying problem that could be the basis of all the problems the project has suffered from -that of the competing interests of local governments. So how best to overcome these problems? We will begin a series of discussions of the pros […]

Here is the official press release for Sen. Earll’s Airport Authority plan.
Now I’m for regionalism, but in the sense that county government is the best vehicle for regionalism since it already exists, and another form of government does not need to be formed.  Senator Earll seems to support this theory in her press release.  The […]

State Senator Jane Earll (R-49th District) has a