PA in the WSJ

This is a list of articles regarding Pennsylvania in this week's Wall Street Journal. Chances are I missed something, but these are the articles that caught my eye.

It should be noted that I routinely do not read the editorials in the WSJ. So any discussions of the state, its elected officials, businesses, or citizens, in editorials will not be mentioned here.


PA Politicians

We make up for lost time this week.

Rep. John Murtha is mentioned in “Republican Iraq vets seek 17 house seats,” by Joel Millman and T. W. Farnam (4/08).

A bevy of Democratic Pennsylvania congressional representatives, Allyson Schwartz (D-13), Patrick Murphy (D-08), and Joe Sestak (D-07) are present in “Clinton and Obama vie for women of Philadelphia suburbs,” (4/10). I would like it noted that none of these people, to the best of my knowledge, have vied for me at all. No candy, no notes, nothing.

Filed from Pennsylvania, “Sen. Clinton addresses the rising crime rate,” by Amy Chozick and Gary Fields (4/12)

PA Businesses

American Business Financial Services of Philadelphia and some unfortunate clients are the focus of “Subprime lender’s failure sparks lawsuit against Wall Street banks,” by Steve Stecklow (4/09)

Herculite Products of Emigsville, maker of engineered textiles is mentioned in “Ads prod candidates on issues of trade, especially with China,” by Kris Maher and Timothy Aeppel (4/09)

“Alcoa net falls amid U.S. slowdown,” by Robert Guy Matthews (4/08)

“Hershey trust president retires,” by Julei Jargon (4/10)

Other PA

Mark Zandi of West Chester-based Moody’s Economy.com appears twice this week, in “IMF tallies credit-crunch toll,” by Bob Davis (4/09), and in “Rate of mortgage delinquencies rises,” by Ruth Simon (4/10). According to that article the rate of delinquencies of mortgages in Pennsylvania is now between 3 and 4%

Beaver County resident and former Pittsburgh resident Dave Anton is highlighted in “Old tractors, Maserati prices,” by Jonathan Welsh (4/09)

Pennsylvania is in the second most costly category of average medicare spending during the last two years for chronically ill patients, “More choices drive cost of health care,” by Theo Francis (4/07)

Wharton prof Todd Sinia is quoted in “McCain, in reversal, asks government to step up in housing crisis,” by Laura Meckler and Elizabeth Holmes (4/11)

The movie “Smart People” is set in Pittsburgh, see the review on 4/11.

Douglas Feith, who has ties to this area, and former undersecretary of policy in Rumsfeld, has written a book “War and Decision,” as reviewed on 4/08)

Other Interesting Tidbits

An interesting idea, CEOs donating or redirecting their bonuses to the non-executive employees’ bonus pool, “More CEOs area saying no (voluntarily) to bonuses, by Joann S. Lublin (4/07)