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The front page of the Erie Times-News from Jan. 23, 2016, includes a graphic representation by Chris Sigmund of the diversity gap of Erie County (PA.) government workers.
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Carlson, RichardJ., 80
Clark, Westbrook“Westy,” 89
Fohner, Harvey C., 87Gilkey, George “Baby
Jr.” Jr., 60Griffith, Mirriam A., 90Hughes, Earnest E.
“Ernie,” 90Hund, Robert D., 77Kertis, David M., 67Krivonak, Josephine
“Jo” Martucci, 91Lawson, Ruth, 92Parrini, Dante A., 79Phifer, Maureen
Goodwin, 90Stephens, Patrick S.
“Phat Pat,” 49Truchanowicz,
Louise FetznerHalm, 104
Wenslow, NancyE., 82
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Students’ arton displayThe Kids as Curatorsexhibit at the Erie ArtMuseum openedFriday, offering youngartists the chance toshowcase their work.City&Region, 1B
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Group’s leaderseeks audienceAmmon Bundy, leaderof the armed groupoccupying a nationalwildlife refuge inOregon, cut short ameeting with a federalofficial because of nomedia involvement.World&Nation, 3A
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So many of the outwardsigns pointed to a strong fi-nal three months of the yearforGETransportation,asolidconclusion to an even stron-ger year.
Erie County’s largest em-ployer turned a $339 mil-lion profit on $1.6 billion inrevenues during the fourthquarteroftheyear,accordingto figures released Friday aspart of the General ElectricCo.’s third-quarter earningsreport. And results for thefull year show that GE Trans-portationearned$1.27billionon revenues of $5.93 billion.
It is yet another number,however, that helps to ex-plainwhyGETransportationannouncedinNovemberthatitwouldreduceitsEriework-force by 1,500 people.
Despite a $2.6 billion or-der in the fourth quarter for1,000locomotives,equipmentorders for the entire yearwere worth just $4 billion, adeclineof40percentoverthe
GEreportsrise inprofitCompany sees40 percent drop inequipment ordersBy JIM [email protected]
No hovering allowed.That’s the message from
Mercyhurst and Gannon uni-versities, which are amongthe latest in a growing num-ber of schools banning orrestricting the use of hover-boards on campus.
A new Mercyhurst Univer-sity policy prevents studentsfrompossessingorusinghov-erboardsandall“recreation-alElectricPersonalAssistiveMobilityDevices”inuniversi-ty-ownedbuildings,including
HoverdevicesgroundedBy ERICA [email protected]
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Erie County government’sworkforce consists of nearly1,200 people.
It is also mostly white —and County Executive KathyDahlkemper’s administrationwants to address that.
Dahlkemper and Gary Lee,the county’s director of admin-istration, said in a recent inter-view that improving racial and
ethnic diversity and workforcetraining to deal with a widerange of cultures are amongtheirlong-rangediversityplanswithin county government.
While both Dahlkemper andLee said they are not looking toexpand the county’s workforce,both said they believe it couldbe more reflective of the com-munity it serves.
According to data provided
County staff:how diverse?
Officialstry to find
ways to levelthe field
in workforce
By KEVIN [email protected]
THERE ARE 1,083 WHITE ERIE COUNTY WORKERS
THERE ARE 68 BLACK ERIE COUNTY WORKERS
THERE ARE 27 OTHERWORKERS (LATINO, ASIAN, PACIFIC ISLANDER,
PEOPLE OF TWO OR MORE RACES)
➤ Please see WORKFORCE, 4A
COUNTY GOVERNMENT VS. COUNTY POPULATION1,178 current ErieCounty employees
278,443 residents*Does not add up to 100%due to multi-racial residents
92%WHITE
6%BLACK
2%OTHER
89%WHITE
8%BLACK
8%OTHER
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