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^ yeah, this is not good news for Erie at all.

It's also interesting that GE just opened a plant in Las Vegas amidst all of their financial struggles.

Unfortunately, I believe that, despite all of GE's claims that they are committed to Erie and to keeping GE Transportation primarily an American enterprise, they will continue to "branch out" operations internationally (especially into China and SE Asia). I really hope I'm wrong, but I feel it is inevitable that GE Transportation will see its primary operations in China in the relatively near future.
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Erie County maple syrup industry featured in the Washington Post!

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Joy in Meadville: 'Tool City' Weathers Downturn

By TIMOTHY AEPPEL

MEADVILLE, Pa. -- The tool-and-die shops that drive this region's economy and give this town its "Tool City USA" nickname are faring better in the current downturn than they did in past recessions.

"You're not seeing the wholesale disruptions you might expect, because they learned from hard lessons in the past," says Mark Turner, executive director of the Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County, which includes Meadville.

One of those lessons is to diversify. The region's tool-and-die industry -- some 130 small and medium-sized companies making tools and parts for everything from satellites to Segway scooters -- was once heavily focused on serving the U.S. auto industry. Many, especially the smaller shops, also tended to rely on just one or two big customers, which increased vulnerability during economic declines.

The 2001 downturn, which coincided with a wave of fierce foreign competition, was particularly brutal. Industry analysts estimate 15% of the region's tool-and-die makers didn't survive that shakeout. But many of those that remained have grown and altered how they do business.

A decade ago, Starn Tool & Manufacturing Co. did 80% of its business with suppliers to the car industry. Today, that segment of its business is 5%. The 54-employee company now makes tools used in minimally invasive spine surgery and parts that end up in everything from Boeing Co.'s new Dreamliner jets to the Kepler space probe.

Strolling through a shop filled with the noise of computer-guided machines cutting metal, William Starn, the company's president, says that customers in the hardest-hit industries still have to buy some tools and finished parts, though they have cut back their purchases. For instance, an air-conditioner manufacturer that normally took shipments once a month is now getting them every two months.

Meanwhile, the company is seeing glimmers that other big manufacturers are starting to buy more freely again. "You can't say 'No' forever," Mr. Starn says.

Not everyone is so upbeat. Mark Hanaway, director of marketing and sales at Tech Tool & Molded Plastics, says he worries that the recession is pushing more of his customers to look for cheaper sources of tools overseas. Tech Tool laid off about a dozen workers -- roughly 15% of its employees -- at the end of February.

The tool-and-die industry is usually among the first to register shifts up or down in the industrial sector, because it makes the tools needed to make final goods. Meadville's shops make everything from molds for plastic components to the dies used to cut and form parts on factory assembly lines. More of them also make the parts that their tools are designed to produce, saving their customers the time and cost of running those operations themselves.

The industry exists in pockets throughout the country, but took root in Meadville in northwestern Pennsylvania because of zippers. The first commercially successful zippers were designed and manufactured here early in the last century, and it was the need for intricate tooling to make them that gave rise to the local tool-and-die sector.

"The slowdown is hitting all of us, but we're coping by finding new customers and new businesses to move into," says Robert Smith Jr., president of Acutec Precision Machining Inc., which has two plants in the area.

Mr. Smith notes that after growing 25% a year for the past four years, his business will be flat in 2009. His company designs and builds its own tools, but has mainly grown by taking over the production of parts and sub-assemblies for large customers, mostly in aerospace. He hasn't shed any workers and still has some on his staff putting in heavy overtime.

Despite the surprising strength of its tool makers, the county that includes Meadville has seen its unemployment rate rise steadily in recent months, hitting 10% in February. That is twice the level of last April, when many companies here were struggling to find and hold onto their skilled workers.

Unlike places that have fought to shed their industrial past, Meadville embraces its heritage. One of the crown jewels of the community is a thriving technical school where students learn industrial trades. Among the plaques hanging in the entryway is one dedicated to Dr. Gideon Sundbaeck, "father of the modern zipper."

Write to Timothy Aeppel at timothy.aeppel@wsj.com
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Unlike places that have fought to shed their industrial past, Meadville embraces its heritage. One of the crown jewels of the community is a thriving technical school where students learn industrial trades.
Yeah... like Erie, Meadville embraces that industrial heritage a bit too much, in my opinion... in favor of looking forward to cultivate greater economic diversity.
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Two Northwestern Pennsylvania companies made this year's Fortune 1000

686 - Erie Insurance Group - Erie
688 - United Refining - Warren
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^ Shit. What happened? Erie insurance was a Fortune 500 company just a year ago. I think it peaked at 460 or so.
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Tires-to-Energy Plant Protesters Take to the Streets


Reported by: Jeremy Beecher

Friday, May 1, 2009 @10:48pm EST

They packed both sides of East Lake Road – young, old and everyone in between – all saying the tires-to-energy plant would be a big step backward for Erie.

“It’s going to affect everyone,” said Donna Burkhart of Millcreek, “children, pregnant women, the elderly.”

"Erie is a beautiful place, and this tire plant is just going to ruin it,” said Sarah Hulsko, a student at Mercyhurst College. “It's going to be what Pittsburgh was 20 years ago."

The prospect of the plant is weighing especially hard on Robert Kennerney, who is deciding whether to stay in Erie or move back to Ireland after he graduates from Mercyhurst College later this month.

"It just makes you think, it makes you wonder,” Kennerney said. “If I were to settle in Erie, would I like to have a family here? Is this the kind of place I want to be? "

But not everyone is convinced the plant is such a bad thing.

For months, several local unions have been supporting it, saying its construction and long-term operation will create hundreds of badly needed jobs.

"It’s a great opportunity for the city of Erie,” said Jack Lee, a union member who attended the zoning board hearing that cleared the way for the plant. “We've lost a lot of industry [and] a lot of jobs. And with this tires-to-energy plant, [there will be] another tax base for the city, [to] help them balance the budget [and] give people jobs."

For now the plant has a green light.

But the zoning board has to give a written explanation for that decision within a week.

Once they do, opponents, including KEEP, vow to appeal the ruling to the Erie County Court of Common Pleas.
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AP: Eastern Ohio economy may take cues from Pa.


By GENARO C. ARMAS

Associated Press Writer

ERIE, Pa. (AP) - This part of the Rust Belt near the Pennsylvania-Ohio border finds itself at an economic crossroads again, much as it did in the 1970s when manufacturing began its long decline.

But choices in the years since are making the future look slightly brighter on the Pennsylvania side even in places such as Pittsburgh, while Ohio cities and towns such as Cleveland suffer more.

``We jump back 30 years, when the steel industry all collapsed at the same time, I think (Pennsylvania's) industry transitioned from steel to other things,'' said Joseph Mayernick, executive director of Growth Partnership for Ashtabula County, an economic development agency in northeastern Ohio. ``We transformed to other things that were still tied to the automobile industry.''

The Associated Press Economic Stress Map shows that although the recession has hit both states hard, the troubles in Ohio are clearly much worse. The color-coded map is based on an index of unemployment, foreclosures and bankruptcies in more than 3,000 U.S. counties - the higher the index's number for a county, the worse the recession's impact.

Ashtabula, Ohio's northeasternmost county, had an index score of 16.17 in the latest figures from May, up nearly eight points since the recession started in October 2007. Progress to diversify there has been slow, and made tougher by the recession, Mayernick said.

Erie County, Pa., Ashtabula's neighbor just east, had a rating of 10.07, up more than four points during the same period. One reason is that one in five Erie residents work in manufacturing, compared with about one in four in Ashtabula County, according to U.S. Census data.

There were similar trends farther south.

Trumbull County, Ohio, had one of its state's highest scores at 17.15. General Motors Corp.'s plant there in Lordstown employs more than 2,200 workers.

The factory is silent again during another temporary summer shutdown. Dozens of suppliers in surrounding communities, including in Ashtabula County, rely on automakers to stay afloat.

Mahoning County, which includes Youngstown, was at 14.91. The recession delivered another blow to a city still trying to recover from the demise of steel and other blue-collar businesses.

``We're surviving. We're hanging on,'' said Benny Naples, 50, who helps run the Golden Dawn restaurant in Youngstown, owned by his father since 1934.

Bankruptcies and foreclosures are up, and companies have shut down that ``people didn't think would shut down,'' Naples said.

Heading south from Erie on the Pennsylvania side, Crawford County's index rating is 10.71, while Mercer County is at 12.36, and Lawrence County is at 10.72. Those are among the highest ratings in Pennsylvania.

But scores lower than Ohio's show that western Pennsylvania's economic diversification is paying off. In the Erie region, for example, there has been growth over the years in the leisure and hospitality sector, as well as higher education and health care.

Allegheny County, which encompasses the regional urban hub of Pittsburgh, has a rating of 8.36, compared with the 13.64 rating for Cuyahoga County in Ohio, which includes Cleveland.

Once heavily reliant on steel, Pittsburgh's economy is now more closely tied to somewhat ``recession-proof'' fields including health care and education, said U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire, a Democrat from western Pennsylvania.

``If you look at what Pittsburgh went through in the 1970s and early 80s, I think that is what Ohio has gone through and maybe hasn't quite recovered to the extent that Pittsburgh has,'' Altmire said.

Richard Golonka, chief financial officer of Snap-Tite Inc., said his company is ``holding its own'' in the recession, having laid off about 15 percent of its 600 workers with business leveling off. The Erie-based firm makes couplings, hydraulic valves and other fittings.

``We're waiting patiently for things to turn around,'' Golonka said at a reception held by the Manufacturer & Business Association in Erie before an appearance by former President George W. Bush. ``People got to start buying. When they buy, orders will come in, but we have no idea when that will start happening.''

Golonka, 63, who has lived in the area for almost three decades, agreed that Erie's economy hasn't suffered as big a hit now because it is less reliant on manufacturing.

Damian Kuzmin, president of Rapid Mold Solutions in Erie, said he decided about six years ago to transition more of his business away from the automobile industry in an effort to diversify. Now, his company also makes molds to produce items like decoy duck heads and medical devices.

Kuzmin estimates about 35 to 40 percent of business today is auto-related, down from about 60 percent earlier this decade.

``It's always been our outlook not to put all our eggs in one basket,'' said Kuzmin, whose business has expanded twice since opening 10 years ago. ``We'd been involved in auto a number of years, but we had seen the handwriting on the wall.''

More regional collaboration is seen as one solution to help economies on both sides of the state line. It's relatively common for residents who live near the border to commute to the other state for work if needed.

Altmire and Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, whose districts abut each other, have collaborated to promote a ``Tech Belt'' in western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio that they hope creates jobs in advanced services and industries.

``We want to use all the resources that we have. Let's all work together,'' Altmire said in a phone interview. ``When I say, 'Silicon Valley,' you know what that is. We want to develop that 'Tech Belt' in the same way.''

One characteristic shared by Pennsylvania and Ohio residents was blue-collar optimism that the area - regardless of which side of the state line - would rebound from the latest financial crisis.

``The one thing about this area, people stick together,'' said Daryll Clark, 49, who has been laid off from his job as a press operator for about seven months. Clark, whose son is the starting quarterback for the Penn State University football team, sat in a booth with Naples at the Youngstown restaurant.

The region ``has had tough times before, and they've come out of it,'' Clark said.


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that sucks so bad... I thought that unit was successful even during the downturn?
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^ Yeah, this has the potential to be crushing for the Erie area. For all the talk of this being GE's most successful division over the past few years, this news doesn't seem to jibe.

As I said a few months ago when there a lower number of layoffs, I think the bulk of the GE-Transportation division will eventually be moved to China or Mexico.
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that is really horrible ... though not surprising after touring it extensively last year
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U.S. fortifies Erie security

By Craig Smith
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, October 11, 2009



As dawn broke over Lake Erie, two Customs and Border Patrol agents made their way up the aisle of Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited, which runs from Chicago to New York. They looked at every passenger.

"Are you a U.S. citizen?" one agent asked a man who stood to stretch his legs when the train stopped in Erie.

"Yes," the man said, reaching for his wallet. The agent waved him off and moved farther up the aisle to where his partner was inspecting another passenger's paperwork. After verifying the information by phone, they moved on.

Many people don't think of Erie as a border town, said Agent Robert Signorino, because the U.S. border with Canada sits in Lake Erie in water up to 200 feet deep.

But Erie is a choke point for land and water transportation, agents said. Major north-south bus routes pass through town. Erie is a stop for trains traveling between Chicago and New York. Boaters fish in secluded coves and inlets that dot the shore.

All this appeals to illegal immigrants trying to quietly blend in, officials said.

"We're looking for the immigrant who walked across the border at Dylan, Ariz., ... maybe got a smuggler to bring them up here on their way to Chicago or New York," said Signorino, a Uniontown native who has served with Customs and Border Patrol in Erie for two years.

"They are not expecting to see border patrol agents in Erie, Pa.," said Patrol Agent in Charge Andrew Scharnweber.

But the border patrol has increased its presence in Erie.

The Erie border station, the only one in Pennsylvania, opened in 2004 with six agents. Next year, it will move from its headquarters in an old cruise ship terminal to a facility that will be located near a notorious drop-off for illegal aliens that is in a cove abutting a residential neighborhood. The new office will accommodate 50 agents, up from 30.

The agency was directed in 2005 to track terrorists and halt transport of illegal aliens.

In 2007, 12 agents were added to Erie's original staff of six as part of a nationwide push to add 6,000 agents by this year. The Erie station's coverage area extends from the Pennsylvania-Ohio line to Dunkirk, N.Y., south of Buffalo.

During the fiscal year, from Oct. 1, 2008, through Sept. 30, Erie Border Patrol agents apprehended 558 people, an 8 percent increase over last year, and confiscated 1,330 pounds of marijuana and $18,555 in cash, as well as smaller amounts of heroin and cocaine, Scharnweber said.

The Erie arrests were part of more than 2,600 made in the Buffalo sector of Customs and Border Patrol during that period.

"Intelligence gleaned from these apprehensions has provided a significant increase in our situational awareness regarding both smuggling trends, criminal organizations and their activity," said Agent A.J. Price, spokesman for the Buffalo sector, of which Erie is a part.

The Erie station averages two apprehensions a day, Scharnweber said. Forty-one percent of apprehensions in Erie happen at bus and train stations, Signorino said. The Erie station has three K-9 teams trained to sniff out drugs and another smuggled commodity: people.

"They hide under the dashboard or in the seats of cars," Scharnweber said.

Erie agents made the following arrests during the 12 months ending Sept. 30: 307, or 55 percent, were Mexicans in the country illegally; 234, or 42 percent, were from countries other than Mexico and Canada; 3 percent were considered "aliens from special interest countries," those known to have ties to terrorists or countries that support them.

"It's more difficult to find terrorists. You can't just follow footprints in the sand," Signorino said.

The climate and geography of Erie challenge that mission, said Signorino, who began his career patrolling the country's border with Mexico.

During the day, fishermen stand almost shoulder-to-shoulder along the lake shore trying to hook Lake Erie steelhead. Under cover of darkness, the coves and inlets offer privacy for those trying to enter the country illegally. Border patrol agents travel back roads and suburban streets to reach the shoreline.

Winter along the lake can be brutally cold, making surveillance difficult.

Beefing up Customs and Border Patrol in Erie has had an impact, said Charbel G. Latouf, an immigration attorney.

"They've assisted local police with people who have no identification," he said, "There was a time when local police officers didn't know what to do. ... If there was no crime, they'd just let them go."

Randy Bowers, deputy police chief in Erie, said border patrol agents have acted as interpreters and helped police deal with suspected foreign nationals. Before the border patrol station was established, police called the Immigration and Naturalization Service or anyone they could think of for help, he said.

"We did a lot of waiting," Bowers said. "Having them up here makes a lot of sense."

Nationwide, from January through September, Customs and Border Patrol officers identified and denied entry to 129,779 inadmissible aliens at ports of entry, 23,386 of whom had criminal backgrounds. Patrol officers seized 19,530 fake or fraudulent documents.

When an agent questioned David Hess before he boarded a bus in Erie recently, he said he understood the reason for the scrutiny.

"I'm from Florida. They need them there. It's been completely overrun. You don't know who's coming in," he said as he waited for his bus to Meadville.
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Mercer County is also a major thoroughfare for illegals and drugs, with I80 and I79 intersecting. I can recall when working as a 911 dispatcher there were weekly arrests of illegals and major drugs busts on the Interstates.
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Next year, it will move from its headquarters in an old cruise ship terminal to a facility that will be located near a notorious drop-off for illegal aliens that is in a cove abutting a residential neighborhood.
Funny that they refer to it as an "old" cruise ship terminal... it was built in 2003!

I didn't realize that they were beefing up the border patrol presence so much in Erie. Though I know that the number of illegal immigrants in the area is said to be high. A city cop that I know from high school joked recently that if the census counted all the illegals here, Erie would be the 3rd largest city in PA once again.
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Inland port developers eye land in western Erie County, Conneaut, Ohio area

http://www.goerie.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...WS02/305059883

The Economic Development Corp. of Erie County is eyeing roughly 2,000 acres in western Erie County and the Conneaut, Ohio, area as it moves forward with the multimillion-dollar plan to develop a sprawling, regional transportation hub.

John Elliott, chief executive of the Economic Development Corp. of Erie County, said the land is being evaluated in hopes that some of the properties -- somewhere between 200 and 700 acres -- eventually will become part of the Erie Inland Port project.

The properties are all located near existing railroad lines, as well as Interstate 90, Elliott said.

"With some of the land, we have options to purchase," Elliott said. "Will all of the property become part of (the project)? Probably not. We're doing site analysis to determine whether the properties fit our needs."

The multiple-site project could be operating as early as 2013, Elliott said.

-- Staff report
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Interesting bayfront photo from what looks to be the early 1990s. Quite a difference! Interesting what it doesn't show on those then-empty docks... Erie County Library/Maritime Museum, cruise ship terminal, Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies, intermodal transportation center, Bicentennial tower, Sheraton Hotel, Convention Center. Note the demolition of the Penelec generating station - the first step in Bayfront redevelopment.



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UPMC, Erie medical center talk merger

Monday, May 24, 2010
By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Top University of Pittsburgh Medical Center administrators met with physicians at Hamot Medical Center in Erie last week amid talk of a possible merger or affiliation.

UPMC spokesman Paul Wood confirmed this morning that Executive Vice President Elizabeth Concordia, Chief Medical Officer Marshall Webster and some UPMC physicians met with Hamot doctors.

"We've have had a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Hamot and look forward to further discussions," Mr. Wood said. "We are investigating ways to expand that relationship to the benefit of patients in the Erie area community."

Steve Twedt: stwedt@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1963.
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Woah! That could be huge.
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Most of the talk in Erie is against a merger with either UPMC or the Cle-Climic, the other suitor.
Heard most often...
"As soon as the econ takes another nose dive and there is a need to cut expenses (read jobs here), do you think they'll cut in Pitt the hdq city?"
Not likely, then there goes so more jobs out of Erie.
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