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AGENDA '09, A forum about issues facing the Erie area. Filmed at H.O. Hirt Auditorium on May 6, 2009 ErieTimesNews on USTREAM. Local News
The live feed from the Hirt Auditorium at the Blasco Library hosted by the Erie Times News for the primary election. This forum allowed the community to outline the political agenda concerning citizens.
Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania - Brookings Institution
This study of Pennsylvania and the municipality system identifies reasons for consolidation.
GoErie.com: Choose action, not complacency
Agenda 09, The Erie Times News article to be used in preparation for the candidates forum.
GoErie.com: High-tech instruction method 'facilitates learning'
This is an article about our class. Your work is important, and being noticed by the public. I hope the skills you learn here are things you carry with you in your future as an active citizen.
GoErie.com: Youthful violent offenders present problem for prisons
In Erie County, the number of juveniles accused of committing crimes has remained relatively stable since 1999, according to a recent study by the Mercyhurst College Civic Institute called "Erie County Youth in Prison: Juveniles in the Adult System." The study also found that 91 percent of the 202 juveniles accused as adults between 1992 and 2007 were 16 and 17.
GoErie.com: Jobless rate jumps
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Erie County's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate jumped
to 7.2 percent in January, up four-tenths of a percentage point from
December. -
Those cuts alone would raise the unemployment rate by 1.1
percent, said Jim Kurre, professor of economics at Penn State Behrend and
director of the Economic Research Institute of Erie.
Q&A: Community College - ErieTube Audio track - Erie, PA's Video Web site
Erie Times-News reporter Kevin Flowers interviews Rich Gross, executive vice-president of the Clements Group, a Salt Lake City-based consulting firm handling community college research for local officials.
Obama releases secret Bush anti-terror memos
President Obama released memos drawn during the Bush administration determining authority in fighting terrorism.
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The Obama administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets
Monday, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure
powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of
interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects. -
the Bush
administration determined that certain constitutional
rights would not apply during the coming fight. Within two weeks,
government lawyers were already discussing ways to wiretap U.S. conversations
without warrants. - 4 more annotations...
Mexico: The War Next Door - CBS News
Violence along the US/Mexican border has drawn attention to drug war raging in northern Mexico. What might this mean for US policy?
Obama's First Budget Proposal - CBS News Video
President Obama's first budget proposal includes ending Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and putting billions toward universal healthcare. Chip Reid reports.
Obama puts forth ambitious agenda in speech - CNN.com
In the Headlines, February 25th. The President's State of the Union Address.
Jindal to criticize stimulus in GOP response to Obama - CNN.com
In the Headlines, 2/25. The Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address.
GoErie.com: GE on track for funds?
In the Headlines, February 23rd. GE may be benefiting from the economic stimulus package as it includes $8 billion for train transportation.
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Last-minute changes to the bill provided $8 billion for
high-speed rail. -
Other provisions provided money for wind-energy projects
that could also have an effect on the company, which makes gearboxes for wind
turbines in Erie. - 1 more annotations...
Downturn Raises Risk Of Global Financial Warfare : NPR
America's intelligence community has said the global economic crisis is now the top threat to the nation's security. The downturn could produce political instability and damage the ties that hold countries together.
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America's intelligence community has said the global economic crisis is now the
top threat to the nation's security. The downturn could produce political
instability and damage the ties that hold countries together. Countries might
even be tempted to engage in financial warfare, officials say. -
The concern now is not the gross size of countries' economies, but how money
moves between countries, and the way those movements can turn into a kind of
financial warfare. - 4 more annotations...
This American Life - The Giant Pool of Money
Host Ira Glass talks with an NPR business and economics correspondent about two gatherings he attended—one at the Ritz Carlton and one at a community college in Brooklyn. The first was an awards dinner for finance professionals who created the mortgage-based financial instruments that nearly brought down the global economic system. The other was a non-profit conference for people facing foreclosure. Ira explains that today's show lays out how the finance guys and
the people facing foreclosure are connected by a chain of middlemen, and that together, they all brought about the current housing and credit crisis.
GoErie.com: Cops make bang to blow up stolen explosives case
In the headlines 2/19. Stolen dynamite in California.
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When 150 pounds of highly unstable commercial-grade dynamite
went missing, officials knew just what to do: Blow something up to demonstrate
how dangerous high explosives can be. -
Authorities have also offered a $25,000 reward for help in
finding who stole the explosives last year from a man who stored them in a
locked container on a remote hillside near the Cleveland National
Forest. - 1 more annotations...
GoErie.com: Crusade for a cure
In the Headlines, 2/19. Inventor of a poosible cure for cancer John Kanzius dies at the age of 64.
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Kanzius seemed an unlikely person to invent a possible cure for
cancer. -
He worked for many years as a radio engineer, first for RCA,
then for WJET-TV. But it was his background designing and fixing radio
transmitters that led to his invention. - 4 more annotations...
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