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Gannon, Your Privilege is Showing

This is truly a case of the have and the have nots in Erie. The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was designed to help those most affected by the pandemic. Erie County gave $1.5 million to Gannon University for Project NePTWNE, despite the fact that they are tax-exempt religious institution, despite their large endowment, despiteContinue reading “Gannon, Your Privilege is Showing”

Boscov’s Friends Helping Friends

Contact keepourlibrarypublic@gmail.com to support our latest fundraiser! Here’s a poster to help advertise as well. “I get by with a little help from my friends.” ~John Lennon and Paul McCartney

It’s There in Plain English

“Local politicians and agencies should work with Gannon to integrate it into the waterfront and guarantee it the space to grow.“ “If you give a mouse a cookie…” ~Laura Numeroff

Bodycheck for the Taxpayers

Since the Erie Otters have their home opener this weekend, it might be a good time to compare Gannon’s sponsorship that includes a suite at the Erie Insurance Area with the Blasco Lease. Gannon, Erie Events strike $105,000 club level sponsorship deal at Erie Insurance Arena. Gannon is paying $35,000 per year for a suiteContinue reading “Bodycheck for the Taxpayers”

Read All About It!

The story of the award-winning “Save Blasco” documentary, which will be shown at the Lake Effect Film Festival 5Iron this Saturday, September 13th at 11am, is told by Liz Allen in the Erie Reader (pages 6-8). Please make sure that you pick up your free copy of the Erie Reader (locations in the link) beforeContinue reading “Read All About It!”

“Save Blasco” at the Lake Effect Film Festival

Here is the schedule for the Lake Effect Film Festival, September 11-13: Rhoxon Productions. “Save Blasco” will have a screening on Saturday, September 13 at 11 am at 5 Iron. Even though all proceeds from tickets go to the film festival, it’s incredibly important to support the festival. KOLP has not gotten much support fromContinue reading ““Save Blasco” at the Lake Effect Film Festival”

Sometimes This Stuff Writes Itself

This morning on his re-election Facebook page, the country executive made what he considers to be a humorous attempt to claim that Project NepTWNE will be testing for fecal matter. Cool story, Brenton, but as everyone who has been following the story knows, the program tests for nanoplastics–not fecal matter, and it doesn’t have toContinue reading “Sometimes This Stuff Writes Itself”

Lake Effect

No, we’re not talking about the weather here. We’re talking about “Save Blasco” being selected for the Lake Effect Film Festival, September 11-13, 2025 at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center (TREC). A reminder that this documentary was also selected for the Defense of Democracy Film Festival, and the documentary was a labor of love byContinue reading “Lake Effect”

Moral Compass

Congratulations to the Benedictine Sisters of Erie for being awarded the National Democracy Award: Benedictine Sisters Win National Democracy Award. The sisters have always been strong moral compass for our area. It seems like a good time to remember when one of the sisters called out the Gannon lease: ‘Immoral deal’ why Gannon’s Blasco leaseContinue reading “Moral Compass”