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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Newsroom brew’s gettin’ me through the Monday.
 
Working on a story tonight about where in Lancaster County the federal stimulus money is going to flow, specifically about highways, roadways and bridges.
As a heads up, how about PennDOT-monitored cameras along Route 30 or Route 283 to watch traffic conditions?
The construction part of this story is where the Obama […]

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Welcome to “Evening Coffee,” which unfortunately has not come out with an instant brew version.
 
But our friends at Starbucks have (you may have heard), and in Chicago they gave away free samples of their VIA instant brew. The on-the-street reviews … not entirely overwhelming, according to the Chicago Sun-Times:
While no one spat it out, reviews […]

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Just a thought or two about the election of Rep. Bill DeWeese as the House Majority party’s Whip.
Taking the Whip position means DeWeese will intimately be involved in negotiations and rallying Democrats on legislative votes, and if you think the new Majority Leader Todd Eachus won’t be listening to DeWeese’s counsel, think again. DeWeese for […]

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Just received word current Minority Republican Leader Sam Smith beat back a challenge by colleague and former House Speaker John Perzel to retain his leadership post. I’m not surprised especially given the allegations that Perzel may have hired an outside consultant to do opposition research against members of his own caucus; Perzel has denied this. Smith […]

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Seriously … we may want to forget the drama inside the House Democrats over Majority Leader Bill DeWeese and focus instead on the soap opera that the House Republicans are turning into. You may remember last night I published a post about former House Speaker John Perzel allegedly hiring a political hit man to do […]

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Sick of presidential politics? Skipping the news stories about President-elect Barack Obama? Craving for something else to read?
I hear yah. But as an alternative to the endless cycle of stories about Obama’s transition team, I have some interesting stuff out of the state House to talk about, mainly about Republican House Speaker Denny O’Brien.
Nesters may remember O’Brien […]

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