Archive for April, 2006

ATTN: Philly People

Wednesday, April 19th, 2006

I just bought a new domain name. Any ideas for it? thats.myjawn.com

Jabar Gaffney

Friday, April 14th, 2006

From Dave Brooks’ Eagle Scout blog over at NJ.com, I found this video of Jabar Gaffney, the Eagles off-season wide receiver signing, with the Texans last year. Hopefully the Star Trek fans hosting this vid won’t mind the linking. Believe me, I’m not trying to be a Ferengi and just steal their bandwidth. Says Brooks: [...]

Penna’s 3 Democratic Contenders for U.S. Senate Meet for Televised Debate

Saturday, April 8th, 2006

Candidates Bob Casey Jr., Chuck Pennacchio, and Alan Sandals will duke it out together for the first time 7 p.m. tonight Saturday, April 8, live from Slippery Rock University on the PCN cable channel. A rebroadcast is set for Sunday 3 p.m., and PCN will stream it online. Be an informed voter and fire up [...]

Pennsylvania Assembly Passes Minimum Wage Hike

Friday, April 7th, 2006

There’s good news from Harrisburg: In a lopsided 146-50 vote, Pennsylvania’s State Assembly passed HB 257, the long-stalled raise in the minimum wage. A large number of Republicans joined the solid Democrats on Wednesday to increase annual pay for the state’s lowest-wage workers by $4,000. Hourly pay would bump up to $6.15 starting July1 this [...]

What Would FLW Say?

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Have you sat down yet and listened to the 22 magical tracks that make up Sufjan Steven’s brilliant, Come On Feel The Illinoise? You REALLY should. Once you’re done that, and you’ve become a converted Sufjan fan (soof-yahn), you’ll be excited to find out that he does not have a child on the way, but [...]