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	<title>Outside Erie</title>
	
	<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog</link>
	<description>by Peter Panepento</description>
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		<title>One Possible Answer: Engineering and Supply-Chain Management</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/11/07/one-possible-answer-engineering-and-supply-chain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GlobalErie reader MGR offers one possible idea that could spawn significant economic growth for Erie.
He explains below:
If I were to pick one “manufacturing related opportunity” that is well aligned with the skills in the area which has the potential to provide a large volume of high value employment, I would seek to establish outsourced engineering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Reverse the Cycle? Focus on Making Something</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/11/06/want-to-reverse-the-cycle-focus-on-making-something/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/11/06/want-to-reverse-the-cycle-focus-on-making-something/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa. Issues]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As we watch both the Erie and U.S. jobless rates rise to previously unfathomable levels, the important question becomes what will it take to put people back to work.
In Erie, the answer lies in our roots. We have to recreate the area as a center of industry &#8212; as a place that makes something.
Too often [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Wishing Kanzius Could Have Seen It</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/28/wishing-kanzius-could-have-seen-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/28/wishing-kanzius-could-have-seen-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Kanzius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of John Kanzius&#8216; biggest frustrations in his effort to prove whether his radio frequency theory could treat cancer was government inaction.
Kanzius would regularly complain about how federal and state officials were giving him what he thought was nothing more than lip service about their support for his idea.
The anger in his voice was palpable. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craps for College?</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/21/craps-for-college/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/21/craps-for-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie Times-News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Earll]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Erie Times-News reporter Kevin Flowers explores the two sides of the debate over a plan floated by state Sen. Jane Earll to divert revenue from a plan to allow table games at Pennsylvania casinos to pay for Erie County&#8217;s long-discussed community college.
One of the biggest arguments against the proposed community college has been cost.
After at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>33</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dow 10,000 and Erie</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/15/dow-10000-and-erie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/15/dow-10000-and-erie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Dow Jones Industrial Average has crossed the 10,000 mark for the first time since we plunged into the recession, do you feel any differently about the state of the economy?
Is the optimism on Wall Street being felt in any significant way in Erie?
Or is it an empty indicator?
I&#8217;d love to hear your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, Greed and the Hammermill Paper Site</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/12/politics-greed-and-the-hammermill-paper-site/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/12/politics-greed-and-the-hammermill-paper-site/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eco-friendly business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie Renewable Energy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Erie Times-News offers an interesting analysis of what looks like a crumbling effort to bring Erie Renewable Energy&#8217;s controversial tires-to-energy plant to the former Hammermill Paper site.
Given the battle over the proposed development, it&#8217;s not a surprise that local officials aren&#8217;t jumping to try to rescue ERE&#8217;s agreement to buy a portion of the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Congrats to the Erie Times-News</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/09/congrats-to-the-erie-times-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/09/congrats-to-the-erie-times-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie Times-News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=819</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to my former colleagues at the Erie Times-News for winning the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association&#8217;s Newspaper of the Year award.
This has been a tough year economically for daily newspapers &#8212; and the Times-News has not been exempt from that.
The paper has lost some dedicated and talented people in the last year due to layoffs. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Opportunity for Erie Charities</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/08/a-great-opportunity-for-erie-charities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/08/a-great-opportunity-for-erie-charities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philanthropy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashley Judd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chronicle of Philanthropy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[giving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.globalerie.com/blog/?p=817</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m admittedly bit biased on this item, but I didn&#8217;t want to let the opportunity pass to spotlight a contest that could win some money and exposure for Erie charities.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy is playing host to its first VolunTV Challenge &#8212; a contest that gives nonprofit groups the chance to create original videos that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Create Erie’s Cultural Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/06/help-create-eries-cultural-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/10/06/help-create-eries-cultural-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie, Pa.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you want to have a hand in helping to guide the future of culture and the arts in Erie?
CultureSpark, the group that is drafting Erie County&#8217;s cultural plan, is looking to gather opinions and ideas from the community and has created a community survey that it hopes will help in the creation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Skilled Are Erie’s Workers?</title>
		<link>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/09/30/how-skilled-are-eries-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.globalerie.com/blog/2009/09/30/how-skilled-are-eries-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Panepento</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community College]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[James Kurre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[production]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dirty little secret about Erie manufacturing workers -- they produce less than their peers.]]></description>
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