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

State Sen. Vince Fumo does the honors this week. See “Trial begins for senator accused of misusing funds,” (9/08)

PA Businesses

“Retails reprogram workers in efficiency push,” by Vanessa O’Connell (9/10) has a Langhorne, PA byline and focuses on Ann Taylor stores.

According to “For fliers, cuts in service bring a little relief,” by Scott McCartney (9/09), about 73% of the flights to Philadelphia arrived on time.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is one of the papers whose digitized backfiles Google will host. See “Google offers to archive newspaper articles” (9/08)

Last week I forgot to include a quote from Mark Zandi. This week I made sure to note it. Mr. Zandi of Moody’s Economy.com is quoted in “Housing’s biggest woes are left untreated,” by Michael Corkery (9/08)

According to the graphic accompanying “Exports bolster local economies,” by Timothy Aeppel (9/11), Pennsylvania has areas with a good relatively good percentage of local gross domestic product over the past two years.

Boeing is mentioned in “Boeing worker pleads guilty to damaging helicopter” (9/12)

Gamesa is mentioned in “Siemens increases it’s windmill push,” by Alexander Becker (9/12)

Other PA

“Wharton students linked to exam web site,” by John Hechinger (9/13)

Arthur Hellman at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law is quoted in “Federal judge suspended on misconduct charges,” by Nathan Koppel (9/13)

David Graff of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania is quoted in “Making every word count,” by Carl Bialik (9/12)

Other Interesting Tidbits

Joe Biden has released ten years worth of tax returns confirming that he is “a man of relatively modest means.” His campaign said this was to encourage Sarah Palin to do the same. See “Biden releases tax returns, prodding Palin” by Christopher Cooper and T. W. Farnam (9/13)

This is a little scary. Picasa will now help you label the people in your photographs by trying to match up the people in new images you post to those previously labeled, and also by isolating the images of people in your photos to help you label them. See “Improved Picasa puts a name to a face,” by Katherine Boehret (9/10). You know, I thought it was overkill when someone posted a note on LinkedIn saying they thought all these headshots people were putting on their social media pages were being scanned into a big facial recognition software database somewhere that would be used for law enforcement, airport security, and other purposes. Now, I’m not so sure. People really need to think about the long term implications of having identifiable photos of themselves plastered all over the internet. Now Picasa makes it easier for people to identify the photos of others that they plaster all over the internet.