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Comcast Rates Going Up By newsroom | October 21, 2008 - 3:53 pm - Posted in Business News, Economy, Financial News, Harrisburg, Local Media, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh Net News, consumer Comcast cable subscribers will be paying more as of December 1. The company announced a 3.7 percent rate increase, yesterday.

Former Harrisburg Radio Host Jailed In Check Fraud Scheme By newsroom | - 3:06 pm - Posted in Court Cases, Court House News, Fraud Warnings, Harrisburg, Local Media, Pennsylvania, police reports A former Pennsylvania radio host has pleaded guilty to victimizing the Federal Communications

Senator Robert D. Robbins represents the residents of the 50th Senatorial District, which includes all of Crawford and Mercer Counties and portions of Butler and Lawrence Counties. Senator Robbins was first elected to the Senate in 1990 and currently holds the Leadership position of Majority Caucus Secretary.

Based on the fact that the Patriot News has displayed an almost inexplicable increase in the coverage of local events and reports released by the Mayors Office over the past several days, I’d like to hold a conference with the Patriot News Editorial Board and ask them a few questions.

(Copied and pasted without permission from PennLive) Harrisburg City Council wants to hear from residents and the parking public on a $215 million proposal to lease most public parking spaces downtown to a private company. The public hearing is set for 5:15 p.m. today at the Camp Curtin YMCA, 2136 N.

We’ve been here before. If you’ve read my previous post about the lackluster display of talent at any of Harrisburg’s Arts/Kipona/Music Fests, I apologize for being redundant. But in the spirit of speaking my mind about the things that are happening in Harrisburg today, I feel overwhelmingly compelled to write this post.

Pennsylvania Senate Staffers Helped Lawyers Screw Reporteds In Leak Case By newsroom | - 6:59 pm - Posted in Alerts, Court Cases, Court House News, Eastern PA, Harrisburg, Local Media, Pennsylvania, US News Now  newspaper quotes the state Senate’s top Democrat as saying his staff helped a lawyer

So I NEVER go to Second Street in Harrisburg. But for the past two weekends, I’ve been there. Not completely by my doing, but I’ve been there nonetheless. And fortunately, I’ve been privvy to these two completely wholesome and culturally endearing encounters.

Harrisburg Crime Opined June 18th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Posted in » Local Politics, Policy and Banter, Video, Opine, News?, Harrisburg City Council According to the 2000 U.S. Census data available, the City of Harrisburg’s roughly forty nine thousand residents are divided into two majorities- fifty

Mount Midtown is Shrinking- June 17th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in » Local Politics, Policy and Banter, Video, News?, Harrisburg City Council While enjoying a tasty White Pizza followed by a delicious Blueberry Muffin at Nonna’s in Midtown Harrisburg today, I was able to watch a bulldozer begin to take big scoops of Mount Midtown (corner of Reily and Green) to the HACC construction site.