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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

Claysburg Police Now Aiming for Sasquatch

June 27th, 2008 · No Comments

Mmmm. Claysburger: Video shows police taking in target practice.
The proud members of the Claysburg Police and Boals Crick Bear Dispatchers flush with victory over a killer black bear are now aiming for bigger game with bigger feet. Anonymous police officials say that the crack wildlife execution squad will take on Sasquatch.
Sasquatch, from an American Indian word meaning “Amish-smelling,” […]

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Tags: Local Politics · Politics · Rendell

Rendell Offers Gypsy Moths Central Pennsylvania

June 4th, 2008 · 5 Comments

“Leaves for our times.” Rendell solves central Pennsylvania problem. 
Waving a piece of paper before he boarded a plane, Governor Edward “G-Moth” Rendell announced, “We will have leaves for our times!”
After meeting with a delegation of gypsy moths, Rendell said the moths would be allowed to deforest central Pennsylvania, in return for a promise that their […]

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Tags: Rendell · State Politics