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PennRon: State Seeks Help to Spin Deficit

July 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Creative financing: PennRon gets lessons
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G-Money Rendell and state legislators are hoping some creative financing can make a pending billion-dollar budget deficit disappear and they’re looking toward the artists of creative budgetting for help.
According to state budget officials, former Enron, WorldComm and Countrywide Mortgages officials are looking over the state books, hoping to find new ways to […]

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Tags: Finance · Local Politics · Politics · Rendell

Windmill Windfall to Fund Hoagie Happening

June 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Turn On. Tune Onion. Drop out. 
Some towns are built on factories. Some are built on agriculture. No one doubts that without the hoagie, Tyrone would be a mere tasteless, hold-the-onions blip on the map.
Recognizing that, Tyrone Borough Council, in cooperation with their corporate overlords, Gamesa, will channel funds from the proposed industrial windfarm into “A […]

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Tags: Finance · Food · Tyrone · Windmills

State College Parents Demand Grand Stand

May 22nd, 2008 · 5 Comments

Artists rendering… Mmmm… Renderin’s. 

State College School Board faced the wrath of hundreds of parents who were upset at the price tag of the new concession stand project.
“A quarter of a millions dollars?” said G. Franklin Uppercoat, spokesperson for State College Parents for Exclusivity. “I have seen affordable housing units in State College that cost more […]

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Tags: Finance · Food · State College