Bird’s-Eye View

If you can name your favorite William Butler Yeats poem, then share a mug of Irish coffee with me. Bonus shot of Bailey’s if it’s something other than the “Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
And lemme ask: a.) Jameson or Bushmills? b.) Stout or cider? c.) Galway or Cork or Dublin? d.) What’s your favorite spot in Ireland?
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Hot cup of newsroom brew with a splash of hazelnut Splenda. Delish! What’s in your mug? 
 
The bartender’s signalling last call. Today is the deadline for Willow Valley Associates to gather 2,205 signatures and place on the primary ballot a referendum to overturn West Lampeter Township’s alcohol sales prohibition. Willow Valley needs this to establish a 184-room Doubletree […]

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If I was going to make a difficult sacrifice for Lent, this would be it. I’ve sworn to forsake my beloved lattes for the next 40 days. But, you know, I see this as a good thing because now instead of syrupy goodness I can expand my horizons to the drip coffees.
Time to deal a […]

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How goes it? Did you try The Mean Cup’s Costa Rican Fair Trade brew in Central Market today? Delicious. And as a public service announcement, remember the recommended way to brew coffee is one scoop (2 tablespoons) per 6 oz. of water.
What do you do when you have an 82-year-old retiree and a mustachioed county […]

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Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, we learn Pat Toomey has his eyes set on the Republican nomination for governor in 2010:
Mr. Toomey, now the president of the Club for Growth, a national movement of budget hawks, had been mentioned as a potential candidate for either the GOP nomination for senate or governor in 2010. He released […]

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From CapitolWire.com:
Major Republican donors and campaign figures throughout the state were told by Attorney General Tom Corbett this week that he will run for governor in 2010.
The Allegheny Countian’s campaign also got good news Wednesday, when GOP power brokers in Chester County confirmed that U.S. Rep. Jim Gerlach, R-Chester, is telling them he will run […]

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On a day when the world caught a glimpse in what could be the ugliest pay-to-play scandal in recent memory (that would be the one over there in the Land of Lincoln) and Gov. Ed Rendell says he has a plan to plug the estimated $1.6 billion budget deficit here at home, thought it would […]

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John Baer of the Philadelphia Daily News says state Attorney General Tom Corbett’s dominating win over his Democratic challenger makes him a likely frontrunner for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination. Corbett won a second four-year term by defeating Democratic John Morganelli by 390,000 and won 61 of 67 counties in a year when Democrats had just […]

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Tom Wolf, Gov. Ed Rendell’s secretary of revenue, resigned today. While that may be a yawner at first impression, see this from the Associated Press:
Wolf, however, would not elaborate on his plans during a Capitol news conference with Gov. Ed Rendell. He sidestepped a question about whether he was running for governor.
“I’ve made a decision, […]

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From the Associated Press:
Pennsylvania’s attorney general says he does not expect to file new charges before the end of the year in the investigation of alleged corruption in the Legislature.
But Tom Corbett told a Harrisburg news conference Thursday that could change as investigators uncover new details.
The Republican, who was re-elected Tuesday, reiterated that the probe […]

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