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Bar Association Rates Judicial Candidates

by Jim Wertz3/27/2015, 6:12 PM

The Erie County Bar Association polled its membership to rate judicial candidates. The judgements may suprise you.

Fire Damages Titusville's Town Square Complex, Blue Canoe Brewery

by Alex Bieler3/19/2015, 6:55 PM

The local brewery is seeking help to find the funds necessary to reopen.

Erie County Civic Leadership Program Seeks Applicants

by Chris Sexauer3/18/2015, 10:15 AM

The Jefferson Educational Society is kicking off their 2015 initiative program, do you fit the bill?

Erie at Large: Change Agents or Chump Change?

by Jim Wertz3/18/2015, 9:00 AM

Erie has always struggled between stasis and and constructive argumentation, where do we stand now?

Google Plants Stake in Virtual Worlds

by Jim Wertz3/9/2015, 10:07 AM

Google and Facebook are venturing into virtual reality for a sci-fi showdown. Will it pay off?

Jobs Up, Wages Down

by Jim Wertz3/8/2015, 2:02 PM

The February jobs report shows more jobs being created nationwide, but wages don't add up.

Springing Ahead into International Women's Day

by Katie Chriest3/8/2015, 9:00 AM

We're losing an hour of sleep for more daylight. But why aren't we losing any sleep over persisting gender inequities?

Wolf Presents Bold Budget, Bright Future

by Jim Wertz3/5/2015, 12:45 AM

Gov. Wolf laid out a bold agenda. Will the legislature follow the bold lead?

Opinion: Facts Not Fabrications About Immigration

by William G. Sesler3/4/2015, 10:00 AM

Right now the public is besieged with a gamut of anti-immigration errors, myths, distortions, and fabrications.

Street Corner Soapbox: A Bill to Privatize Liquor is Sitting in the State Senate – And It's Time Pennsylvania Gets Out of the Business of Booze

by Jay Stevens3/4/2015, 8:30 AM

Jay Stevens on eliminating state regulation of liquor.

Erie at Large: The Ballad of CRIZ

by Jim Wertz3/4/2015, 8:00 AM

Jim Wertz talks bayfront development and the role of CRIZ.

Whaley to Run for City Council

by Jim Wertz2/27/2015, 5:10 PM

Fmr. mayoral aide Jon Whaley says he'll run for City Council (and someday Mayor... again).

Net Neutrality and the Prospect of an Open Internet

by Jim Wertz2/27/2015, 12:35 AM

The FCC took major steps in the fight for net neutrality.

GECAC Accepting Tuition Scholarship Applications

by Mike Iverson2/23/2015, 11:21 AM

GECAC is lending a helping hand to low-income families in the Erie region.

The Business of Higher Education

by Katie Chriest 2/18/2015, 10:15 AM

College tuition is a weird system, and it may be broken.

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