A highly anticipated business decision expected in a few weeks could provide a big economic spark to Western Pennsylvania that creates thousands of jobs and possibly spawns related, spinoff companies.The decision involves the location of a natural gas 鈥渃racker鈥� plant. Oil company Royal ...
Like a backwards Terminator, your keyboard is sent from the past designed to fight you.Let me explain, dear reader: the humble keyboard 鈥� a device many of us spend a majority of our days tethered to 鈥� is laid out in the QWERTY pattern (so named for the top-left letters of the keyboard) that ...
In a rather historic move, members of the House State Government Committee voted this past week by a vote of 18-6 to cut the number of members in the state House of Representatives by 50 from 203-153.It was the first time that a motion to reduce the number of state legislators had received a ...
The long-awaited corruption trial of state Rep. Bill DeWeese, D-Waynesburg, finally began this week in Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg.DeWeese was initially charged in December 2009, and after numerous appeals and delays, a jury of seven women and five men was selected last week.The trial, ...
Do you want to play a game?(Man, the 鈥淪aw鈥� movies make that a fun thing to say...)Below are three offbeat, strange or weird stories from this week. Can you guess which ones are true and which are made up? I鈥檒l give you the answer at the end of the column.<strong>The Burger ...
Even though the Web is a relatively new phenomenon, it would be hard to imagine working, (procrastinating), communicating, learning, entertaining ourselves and connecting without it.But we may get to find out.The last few months have seen more and more calls online for opposition to two bills ...