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Western PA union endorsement heats up Congressional Race
Source: FoxNews.com, 4/29/2010
The United Mine Workers union is backing Congressional candidate Mark Critz, which makes this tight race a fight for job creation.
Pennsylvania ranked among the highest job increases in the nation
Source: Associated Press, 4/29/2010
In the month of March, PA recorded some of the highest employment increases in the nation, adding over 20,000 jobs.
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Bethlehem , Williamsport , Pittsburgh , Erie , Philadelphia , Harrisburg , Allentown , Reading , Scranton , Lancaster-York , State College  
Philadelphia newspapers sold to senior lenders
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/29/2010
The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News were sold at auction on Wednesday. Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C. senior lenders purchased the bankrupt company for $139 million.
Business Services , Intellectual Property , Venture Capital  
Philadelphia  
Alliance Sanitary Landfill's gas conservation pipeline is up and running
Source: Scranton Times-Tribune, 4/29/2010
Alliance Sanitary Landfill's new gas conservation pipeline opened this week, sending methane gas 19 miles through a pipeline to a co-generation plant in Archbald, PA.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , Business Services , High Technology , Sustainability  
Scranton  
Rudman Foundation donates $1.2M for Temple TV production center
Source: Philadelphia Business Journal, 4/29/2010
The Kal and Lucille Rudman Foundation this week announced a $1.2 M grant for Temple University's new television production station, which will serve as the home for Temple's new TV station TUTV.
Entertainment Technology , High Technology , Higher Education  
Philadelphia  
Insituvue's Sonic Flashlight helps insert needles on the first stick
Source: Pop City, 4/29/2010
Insituvue's Sonic Flashlight helps insert needles on the first stick.
Entrepreneurship , Life Sciences  
Pittsburgh  
Liberty Property Trust awarded for sustainability efforts
Source: Triad Business Journal, 4/29/2010
Maastricht University released a list this week ranking Liberty Property Trust, a Pennsylvania company, number one in environmental policy, reports the Triad Business Journal.
Business Services , Design , Financial Services , Sustainability  
Philadelphia  
Adaptive reuse: Sony Westmoreland plant seeks ideas
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/28/2010
Economic development leaders rethink uses for Sony's former Westmoreland County manufacturing plant.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials  
Pittsburgh  
Rivers Casino adds 400+ jobs in Pittsburgh
Source: Pittsburgh Business Times, 4/28/2010
Rivers Casino will adds 400 more jobs with the advent of table games in Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh  
Pittsburgh VC fund's "adventure" almost over
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/28/2010
Western Pennsylvania Adventure Capital reduces portfolio, winds down.
Venture Capital  
Pittsburgh  
World Trade Center steel comes home to PA
Source: Associated Press, 4/22/2010
A mile-long procession of 28 flatbed trucks carrying 500 tons of steel remnants of the fallen World Trade Center remnants returned the “steel trees” to their Pennsylvania birthplace in Coatesville, reports the Associated Press.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , Business Services , Design  
Philadelphia  
Penn State’s home field advantage is noise
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/22/2010
Science says Penn State has a healthy home field advantage because of the crowd noise created in cavernous Beaver Stadium, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Entertainment Technology , Higher Education  
State College  
Marcellus Shale Policy Conference set at Duquesne
Source: NorthCentralPA.com, 4/22/2010
Developing an effective, comprehensive and consistent regulatory framework for the development of the Marcellus Shale formation will be the goal at the Marcellus Shale Policy Conference on May 3-4 at the Power Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, reports NorthCentralPA.com.
Advanced Manufacturing and Materials , Business Services , High Technology , Sustainability  
Williamsport , Pittsburgh , Erie , State College  
Taking a tasty tour of pretzel bakeries in Lancaster and York
Source: Washington Post, 4/22/2010
Writer James F. Lee takes Washington Post readers on a private tour of Pennsylvania’s long-successful pretzel industry.
Entrepreneurship  
Lancaster-York  
UPenn moves up to No. 2 in medical school rankings
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/22/2010
The University of Pennsylvania leap-frogged Johns Hopkins University to take the No. 2 spot on U.S. News and World Report’s ranking of 122 U.S. medical schools.
Higher Education , Life Sciences  
Pittsburgh , Philadelphia  
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