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Billy Bragg captivates State Theatre audience

November 14, 2008 - 7:50pm — voicesweb
 

Billy Bragg

Audio interview with Billy Bragg - click this link to listen.

by Adam Eshleman 

When British folk music icon Billy Bragg was growing up in an industrial suburb in Essex, his greatest dream was to tour the United States as a rock musician. Read more »

Gold rush: High-end luxury at Centre County’s expense

November 12, 2008 - 8:05pm — voicesweb
 

Gold rush: High-end luxury at Centre County’s expense or
The “P” is for the privileged

By Suzan Erem

Developers of the new $58 million “P” condominium/hotel/spa project, rising up from the old Lowe’s site, are touting their latest enterprise as environmentally-friendly and good for the community, but a Voices examination has unveiled a project that may in fact be a case of “greenwashing” as well as a drain on the local economy.

Developer Bruce Heim, chairman of Keystone Real Estate Group, expects the project to be finished by January 2010. Read more »

Veterans Day event at Old Main

November 12, 2008 - 4:40pm — voicesweb

Matt Rickert, a Penn State student in Navy ROTC, participates in a Veteran's Day ceremony outside Old Main on Nov. 11, 2008. Citizen jounrnalist photo contributed by Doug Bauman.

Peter Schiff was right, warning recession in 2006-2007 while pundits laughed

November 7, 2008 - 5:41pm — voicesweb

A somewhat sobering video, and an example of how totally wrong so many of the media "experts" were in the last two years. Peter Schiff predicted accurately (in 2006) the economic crisis we've entered, and which was a strong influence on the recent election, and he also predicted that because it was based on fundamental problems like a economy with a 70% dependence on consumer spending and debt, and the collapse of national production and manufacturing, that it would be a long, deep, and severe recession. Read more »

Centre, Cambria, and Elk counties go BLUE!

November 5, 2008 - 7:07pm — voicesweb

America lines up to vote in a record-breaking election.

November 4, 2008 - 6:14pm — voicesweb

America lines up to vote.

The lines formed all over the country and the state - here voters wait to cast their ballot in the polling place on W. Whitehall Road.

Stars, Stripes, and Tie-dye: A Shakedown of "Change Rocks.”

October 31, 2008 - 4:58pm — voicesweb

Grateful Dead at Penn State 

I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am
Been hiding out, in a rock and roll band
- U.S. Blues Grateful Dead

By Brandon Wenerd

In the days prior to the 2004 general election, the late Hunter S. Thompson insinuated an eccentric Democratic political strategy to financial website Bankrate.com. The brazenly idiosyncratic Gonzo journalist noted the key to Senator John Kerry’s victory involved rallying around "the sports writer's vote, the dope fiend's vote, and the Grateful Dead vote." No one listened. Read more »

VOICES November 2008 Issue is out - The "P" is for priviledged

October 31, 2008 - 4:44pm — voicesweb

The P stands for Priviledged
PDFs of the VOICES November 08 Issue:
Frontcover, Contents, Editorial
Politics and Economics
Community and Lifestyle
Environment
University
Arts and Entertainment
Opinions and Backcover

Pick it up at a distributor, or at our online archive.

Next tuesday is election day - get out and vote!

October 31, 2008 - 4:00pm — voicesweb

The Pennsylvania Department of State's official online voting resource center, lots of useful voting info at this site. WWW.VOTESPA.COM

Pennsylvania's official polling place locator - it works pretty well, found my polling place easily based on my street address, this will serve all Pa voters:
http://www.votespa.com/WheretoVote/tabid/72/language/en-US/Default.aspx

This is the Centre County Polling Place Locater:
http://www.co.centre.pa.us/elections/locator.asp

Huntingdon County polling places:
http://www.huntingdoncounty.net/hunt_co/cwp/view.asp?A=1212&Q=516672

Mifflin County polling places:
http://www.co.mifflin.pa.us/mifflin/cwp/view.asp?A=646&Q=412674

Still looking for more polling place links, if you have a good one email it to Voices.

Community photographers - submit your Central Pa news photos to Voicesweb

October 23, 2008 - 4:15pm — voicesweb

America lines up to vote.
The lines formed all over the country and the state - here voters wait to cast their ballot in the polling place on W. Whitehall Road.

Wanted - amateur photos of news and culture events and beautiful sights in the Central Pa area. If you have a great photo, especially of an interesting event, email it to Voices and let us post it to the website.

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