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Articles by Charles Buki
The wonders of Maine life
In August 1973, our family arrived in Maine for a one-week vacation on Pemaquid Pond outside Damariscotta. The following year we arrived for two weeks, and then steadily we accumulated more weeks and years until something about Maine felt like home. I was 13 the bicentennial summer in 1976 and walked into the Maine Coast bookshop and a white haired man, the proprietor, helped me find books to read. He gave me A River Runs Through It, and a lifetime memory of his kindness.
Erie at Large: The Mayor's New Clothes
For the past few months, Erie Mayor Joe Schember and company have been making the rounds at community forums to carry out a campaign promise that his administration would engage the public in conversations about the future of Erie, specifically as those conversations and his administration's plans relate to Erie Refocused, the city's comprehensive plan.
A Sit-Down With Schember
On Jan. 2, 2018, something happened in Erie that hadn't happened in more than a decade, 12 years to be exact. A change of leadership swept over the fifth floor of City Hall, as Joe Schember was sworn in as Erie's new mayor as Joe Sinnott, after serving three consecutive terms, left 626 State St. not by ballot but by term limits.
From Candidate to CEO
As the clock crawled on throughout the night of Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017, John Persinger held on to hope. Erie, Pennsylvania's first serious Republican candidate for mayor in decades had been told victory was improbable at best, more likely impossible. With all precincts reporting, Democrat Joe Schember, who emerged from a contested primary against six challengers, reportedly had tallied more votes and media outlets were heralding him as Erie's next mayor.
From the Editors: March 28, 2018
We welcome you to the fourth annual Industry, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Issue (lovingly referred to here as the "I2E" issue). Here, we look at the roadmap of industry in Erie, the innovations guiding us into the future, and the entrepreneurial backbone that drives our local economy. Some in Erie with their eyes on that future often say that the region finds itself at a crossroads. Pejoratively speaking, being at a crossroads typically isn't seen as a good thing.
The State of Erie Industry in 2018
That's been the trend for more than a decade and while holding course is better than falling behind, the Erie economy lags behind both the Commonwealth and the nation in economic growth. Erie's gross domestic product (GDP) — the value of a regional economic output — grew at a rate of just under two percent during the past fifteen years, according to reports by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry.
Ideas, Industry, and Entrepreneurs
The current construction at the Rothrock building runs through the building with celerity. Fifteen years ago, Joel Deuterman, the President and CEO of Velocity Network, was standing in the main atrium of Alcoa's Global Headquarters in Pittsburgh. For the first time, he was contemplating the relocation of his multi-service technology company in Erie, going to the Steel City to tour facilities for inspiration.
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