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?
My […]
Entries Tagged as 'Tom Corbett'
EVENING COFFEE: Brubaker’s fine day
March 17th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Stimulus Package · Evening Coffee · Bill DeWeese · Tom Corbett · Mike Brubaker · Ed Rendell
EVENING COFFEE: Last call for Willow Valley
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Willow Valley · West Lampeter Township · Bonusgate · Cell Phone Ban · Jacy Good · Evening Coffee · Tom Corbett · Democrats · Government Reform · Alcohol · Mike Brubaker · State House
EVENING COFFEE: Playing poker
February 25th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Tom Corbett · Gambling · Stimulus Package · Evening Coffee · Bobby Jindal · State Budget · Education · State Senate · President Barack Obama · Ed Rendell · Arlen Specter · Baseball
EVENING COFFEE: The next Republican chapter
February 17th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Craig Ebersole · Frank Fryburg · Lancaster County Republican Committee · Katie True · Jimmy Buffett · Evening Coffee · Pennsylvania Politics · Joe Pitts · Government Reform · Race · Tom Corbett · Campaign Finance
Toomey’s opportunity
January 26th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Pennsylvania Politics · Pat Toomey · Tom Corbett · Patrick Meehan · Arlen Specter · Republicans
And here we go …
December 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Pat Toomey · Jim Gerlach · Tom Corbett · Patrick Meehan · Arlen Specter · Republicans
The other shoe’s dropping
December 9th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Tom Corbett · Government Reform · State Budget · Republicans · State House
Gov. Corbett in 2010? Another GOP contender?
November 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Pat Toomey · Pennsylvania Politics · Tom Corbett · Patrick Meehan · Republicans
Wolf resigns; Guv run could be next
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments
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, […]
Tags: Tom Corbett · Pennsylvania Politics · Patrick Meehan · State Budget · Economy · Ed Rendell
Bonusgate: No charges until New Year
November 6th, 2008 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Tom Corbett · Government Reform · State House




