Opinion

Find your city! Find yourself a city to live in.

The Pennsylvania Division of the U.S. Border Patrol re-fights the Battle of Lake Erie 200 years after Perry!

Now up for discussion: Affordable care, that guy on county council, and voter ID.

Birtherism still lives. I know. I encountered it on Facebook when one of my ?friends? posted a link and a video detailing how President Barack Obama?s long-form birth certificate ? released early in 2011 ? is actually a forgery.

So Mitt Romney was in the news again.

Erie's favorite rascal is back at it.

Here?s a fact. The Earth is warming. The global temperature has risen about 1.3?F in the last 150 years, and two-thirds of that increase has occurred since the 1980s.

This is the 63rd week in a row that I?ve had the pleasure of addressing you, dear Reader readers. That?s roughly 63,000 words I?ve pushed out of this bully pulpit called ?Upfront,? the equivalent of a short novel. If you were to go back and read them all, just like a novel, you?d find recurring themes that permeate that novel as well as permeate our city, our region, and our culture. You?d also creep me out just a little bit, because, come on, who would do that?

Iraq, Swedes, and the bottom of the ocean. Upfront is making some unsubstantiated generalizations.

Bugs is back!

Happy Birthday, America! Here's a history lesson from Upfront.

Introducing Bugs Beeman

?When you change a child?s life, you change a family?s, which can change a community, and ultimately the world.? This is the belief of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Erie. And if we all bought into that trickle-up effect, we as adults may once again start to see through a different set of eyes and help us to not only understand, but possibly rejuvenate our own outlook on life.

Politicians have been bloviating hard about the virtues of the free market since the crash of 2008, which destroyed between $10 and $13 trillion of citizens? purchasing power. These for the most part were completely blameless citizens.

As we watched Jerry Sandusky sit impassively through court proceedings while tale after tale of horror was spun before us all, actions of the man perpetrated under the very noses of his friends and family and employers, innumerable questions come to mind.