PA in the WSJ

Either it was a slow week for Pennsylvania in the Wall Street Journal of I missed things.

PA Politicians

“House Democrats Strip Iran Provision From Bill,” by David Rogers mentions Rep. John Murtha (D., Pa.) (3/13)

PA Businesses

Obit of Roswell Brayton, Jr. CEO of Woolrich, Inc., based in Woolrich, PA, founded in 1830. (3/17)

“Big Hits in Sports,” by Rob Cox and John Christy, on Dick’s Sporting Goods, based in Pittsburgh (3/17)

Philadelphia law firm Pepper Hamilton mentioned in “Yao Guilty in Fraud Case,” by Paul Davies (3/15)

Brief notes:
Pep Boys of Philadelphia (3/14 and 3/16)
Leep, maker of building materials, Montoursville (3/15)
Bon-Ton department stores of York (3/16)

Other PA

Brief quote by Ilana Diamond, of Sima Products, a home-theater and digital-imaging accessories manufacturer in Oakmont, in “Drilling Kids in Chinese, by Ellen Gamerman (3/17)

Mention (3 paragraphs in a much larger story) of a house in Pittsburgh in “Foreclosure Rise Brings Business To One Investor,” by James R. Hagerty (3/14)

Pittsburgh ranked 6th and Philadelphia 7th in a chart of “metropolitan areas that lost the most jobs in the mortgage-lending and consumer-finance sectors between the fourth quarters of 2005 and 2006” in “Subprime Troubles Bite Into Office-Space Sector,” by Jennifer S. Forsyth and Conor Dougherty. Our neighbor to the south, Wilmington, ranked 2nd. (3/16)

Mention of a book by Barry Schwartz, a Swarthmore prof, “The Paradox of Choice,” in Jim Sollisch’s essay “The Joys of Workaholism” (3/16)

Anecdote about Jake Kaufman of Chambersburg in a story about Open That Bottle Night, events to open bottles of wine saved for special occasions, in “A Toast to Memories,” by Michaela Rodeno (3/16)

Review of Pittsbugh author Lee Gutkind’s new book “Amost Human” in “The Winding Road to the Robotic Future,” by George Anders (3/16)