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.

The WSJ was preoccupied with the financial crisis this week and there was not much else to read about it.

PA Politicians

Gov. Ed Rendell quoted and mentioned prominently in “Abertis lets bid expire for Pennsylvania Turnpike,” by Santiago Perez (10/01)

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter is quoted in “Crime hasn’t dropped as much as our interest in talking about it,” by Ashby Jones (10/02)

Politics in PA: One of the quasi-mock debates Sarah Palin had to prep for the real thing was held in Philadelphia. See “Game plan for Palin is retooled ahead of debate,” by Monica Langley (9/29)

PA Businesses

Sovereign is “in a comparatively solid position” according to “An old-fashioned run on a bank?” by David Gaffen (10/04)

Brief mentions: Mothers Work Inc of Philadephia (10/01)

Other PA

One of the minister’s challenging the federal tax law by preaching politics is the Rev. Fran Pultro of the Calvary Chapel on King’s Highway in Philadelphia, as noted in “Partisan Sunday sermons test federal tax law,” by Suzane Sataline, Amy Merrick, Leslie Eason, Rhonda Rundle and Easha Anand (9/29)

Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania gets several mentions in the 9/30 Journal Report (section R) on the best executive MBA programs.

Kristy Arbogast director of engineering at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is quoted in “New questions on booster seats,” by Jonathan Welsh.

Jonson Miller, an adjunct history professor at Drexel University is quoted in “Mackerel economics in prison leads to appreciation for oily fillets,” by Justin Scheck (10/02)

A family in Pittsburgh is given as one example in “Lower the bar: financial advisers ‘reprogram boomer clients with big portfolios to emphasize ‘need, not greed’,” by Suzanne McGee (10/02)