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Score one—or better yet, make it one hundred thousand—for the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center. Low-income students: zero...
...Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, home to the lovable groundhog-cum-weather prophet Punxsutawney Phil (popularized in the 1993 Bill Murray film Groundhog Day), got a boost last week when residents learned they had found favor in the traditional year-end Congressional appropriations bill. Thanks to some last minute wrangling by Rep. John Peterson, R-Pa., the federal government will be allocating $100,000 for the creation of a weather museum there. According to a website maintained by the local chamber of commerce, the “discovery center” will “educate a variety of groups, individuals, ages...
Practically buckling under the weight of its frivolity, the $388 billion annual spending bill budgets billions of dollars for projects that, like the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center, were tacked on by legislators to curry favor with their constituents. While no one can come to a clear consensus on whether a certain issue qualifies as so-called pork barrel spending, estimates of the total set aside for these pet projects range from $11 billion to $16 billion. Other questionable giveaways in the bill include $250,000 for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, $500,000 to renovate ski trails...
...might get a chance to hear “The Pennsylvania Polka” playing while you walk to the game. Ever see Groundhog Day with Bill Murray? The accordian-led Pennsylvania polka plays throughout the movie as Murray lives the same day over and over again in Punxsutawney, Pa. The song’s really catchy, and if I know my Pennsylvanians correctly—and I think I do—someone will surely be playing it and singing along at Penn. “Strike up the music, the band has begun. The Pennsylvania Polka...
Whether or not Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Saturday, the Harvard wrestling team knew on Friday it had only six weekends to build momentum for the EIWA Championships at Lehigh Mar. 9 and 10. While Phil was getting some rays, the team handily defeated Sacred Heart, 33-7, before being edged out 24-18 by No. 22 Hofstra later that evening...