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If you're with Alan Jackson, you'll have to go to the bathroom somewhere else.

October 1, 2007

Tweet Yesterday I held a Black and Gold Bash at the Pepsi Roashouse in Burgettstown, and although there were many events going on in the area, we had a crowd of over 300 people turn out for an afternoon of football and fun. The Pepsi Roadhouse is right next to the Post-Gazette Pavillion, and there was [...]

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Making sure we don't miss any loops on our Beltway

September 28, 2007

Tweet Last night, I hosted a public meeting with representatives from the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to discuss the progress of the Southern Beltway, which is a proposed toll road that will connect I-22 and I-79 and run through the heart of my district. The focus of the meeting, which was requested by many of the people living within [...]

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Senior Expo '07

September 25, 2007

TweetLast week I co-sponsored the 19th Annual Senior Expo at the Washington Crown Center. I want to thank my co-sponsors Rep. Tim Solobay and the Washington County Area Agency on Aging, as well as all of our vendors (all 150 of them) and our respective staffs for all of their hard work. Here are some [...]

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A Week to Speak Up, Look Back and Give Stuff Away

September 17, 2007

TweetThe General Assembly will be going back into session soon, so I’ve been trying to get in as many things as possible back here at home before I have to start traveling to Harrisburg again. This past week certainly left me without much spare time on my hands.  The week began in Bethel Park, where [...]

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MTV: Shangri La for the Stupid

September 11, 2007

TweetA couple of weeks ago, I posted the insane rambling answer that Miss Teen South Carolina, Caitlin Upton, gave at the Miss Teen USA Pageant. I commented to some friends that she would probably be rewarded for her “intellect” by getting her own reality show on MTV. Apparently I wasn’t the only one with this [...]

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We're the Government, but we're People too…

September 5, 2007

TweetOne of the most striking differences between being in private business and being a public servant is that a private business can refuse to deal with anyone they don’t want to, while public servants represent all of their constituents, even the ones who don’t like them. As a private attorney, I can only remember a [...]

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Vox Populi

September 3, 2007

TweetI know I have been remiss in my blogging duties this past week, but so much has been going on that it has been difficult to find time to sit down and actually post something. I have a bunch of things I want to post, but I thought I’d bump up the events of today [...]

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All hail my new press secretary, the President of Skills USA!

August 27, 2007

TweetI would like to make an important announcement. With my next election just over a year away, I have decided that the time has come to put together my campaign team. I had been undecided about who to bring in as my press secretary, but after seeing this stunning display of intellectual prowess, the choice [...]

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The Bridge Prayer

August 22, 2007

Tweet I’ve been spending the day sorting through the 641 emails in my Inbox (that’s no exaggeration). I really enjoy directly communicating with constituents through email, even though I usually can’t share anything they have to say on this blog. I am going to make an exception for a poem written by a constituent of mine by [...]

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Blaming it on the Rain

August 22, 2007

Tweet I’m finally back in some sort of normal routine, and now I can’t mow my lawn because it’s apparently going to rain every day for the next six months. It’s a real problem for my dog Cleo to walk through the overgrown grass to go to the bathroom because her little daschund legs are too [...]

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