_stwVar['player']= 'generic_single';_stwVar['autostart']= '0';_stwVar['clientid']= '541';_stwVar['clientcheck']= 'BledbAe';_stwVar['width']= '332';_stwVar['height']= '328';_stwVar['mediaid']= '385031';_stwVar['mediafileid']= '615081';_stwVar['clientname']= 'wsee';_stwVar['playerbackgroundcolor']= '112665';_stwVar['controlsbackgroundcolor']= '354a89';_stwVar['controlsforegroundcolor']= '929292';_stwVar['showlogo']= '1';_stwVar['logoimage']= 'http://wsee.media.streamtheworld.com/video/img/playerlogo-24-501.jpg';_stwVar['adstype']='STW';_stwVar['zoneid']= '';embed();

UH-HUH, UH-HUH
That’s what Senator Arlen Specter’s saying these days.
He’s apparently not surprised that he’s trailing challenger and former Republican Congressman Pat Toomey 41 percent to 27 percent among Republican primary voters.
The numbers are part of a new Quinnipiac University poll.
While Specter’s overall statewide favorable rating is 45, his favorable rating [...]

THE PRESIDENT SAYS WE'RE SEEING SIGNS OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY...AND LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE HOPEFUL FOR A REBOUND.
_stwVar['player']= 'generic_single';_stwVar['autostart']= '0';_stwVar['clientid']= '541';_stwVar['clientcheck']= 'BledbAe';_stwVar['width']= '332';_stwVar['height']= '328';_stwVar['mediaid']= '379421';_stwVar['mediafileid']= '606831';_stwVar['clientname']= 'wsee';_stwVar['playerbackgroundcolor']= '112665';_stwVar['controlsbackgroundcolor']= '354a89';_stwVar['controlsforegroundcolor']= '929292';_stwVar['showlogo']= '1';_stwVar['logoimage']= 'http://wsee.media.streamtheworld.com/video/img/playerlogo-24-501.jpg';_stwVar['adstype']='STW';_stwVar['zoneid']= '';embed();

March 17, 2009
Mr. Edward M. Liddy
Chairman and CEO
American International Group, Inc.
70 Pine Street
New York, NY 10270
Dear Mr. Liddy:
I write today to convey my outrage over American International Group’s (AIG’s) payout of $165 million in bonuses to executives in its Financial Products division. As you know, this unit wrote trillions of dollars of credit default [...]

YOU--THE TAXPAYERS OWN 80 PERCENT OF THE COMPANY .
INSURANCE GIANT AIG HANDED OUT $165 MILLION IN BONUSES TO EXECUTIVES...THIS WHILE TAKING BILLIONS IN FEDERAL DOLLARS.
TAXPAYERS ARE JUST PLAIN MAD, OUR LOCAL LAWMAKERS ARE FRUSTRATED, AND THE PRESIDENT IS SPEAKING OUT.
CHECK IT OUT...
_stwVar['player']= 'generic_single';_stwVar['autostart']= '0';_stwVar['clientid']= '541';_stwVar['clientcheck']= 'BledbAe';_stwVar['width']= '332';_stwVar['height']= '328';_stwVar['mediaid']= [...]

NORTHWEST PA FIRE COMPANIES GETTING SOME CASH
Senator Arlen Specter announced today that the Department of Homeland Security approved funding for several fire companies in Northwest Pennsylvania.
$41,564 for Youngsville Volunteer Fire Department in Warren County
$16,150 for Stancliff Hose Company in Erie County
$10,735 for Pine Grove Hose, Hook & Ladder Fire Company No. 1 [...]

During the campaign President Obama vowed to limit earmarks, but he let some 8,000 of them slide through a 410 billion dollar bill this week.
And now because of that, federal cash is coming our way. I suppose we can call them "Eriemarks."
The Omnibus Appropriations Bill will fund most government agencies through September.
But it also [...]

FOR MANY, IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH.
PRESIDENT OBAMA SAYS TAXPAYER DOLLARS CAN NOW BE USED TO PAY FOR RESEARCH ON STEM CELLS TAKEN FROM HUMAN EMBRYOS.
LIKE MANY OF US KNOW, STEM CELLS CAN BE MORPHED INTO ANY CELL IN THE BODY. SCIENTISTS BELIEVE BY TURNING THEM INTO CELLS DAMAGED BY INJURY [...]

_stwVar['player']= 'generic_single';_stwVar['autostart']= '0';_stwVar['clientid']= '541';_stwVar['clientcheck']= 'BledbAe';_stwVar['width']= '332';_stwVar['height']= '328';_stwVar['mediaid']= '362771';_stwVar['mediafileid']= '579961';_stwVar['clientname']= 'wsee';_stwVar['playerbackgroundcolor']= '112665';_stwVar['controlsbackgroundcolor']= '354a89';_stwVar['controlsforegroundcolor']= '929292';_stwVar['showlogo']= '1';_stwVar['logoimage']= 'http://wsee.media.streamtheworld.com/video/img/playerlogo-24-501.jpg';_stwVar['adstype']='STW';_stwVar['zoneid']= '';embed();

More than half a million dollars is headed to Northwest, PA.
$558,101 to be exact.
Senators Specter and Casey say the money is coming through what's called the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant.
The funding was included in the last stimulus bill.
The Byrne grant program is designed to help state [...]