Posting History for Tony Barr PA09
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| Boots on the Ground | Tony Barr PA09 | 09/06/2006 | 1 | 7 | - | 2 |
| Demanding, Achieving Excellence | Tony Barr PA09 | 09/24/2006 | 1 | 5 | - | 9 |
| Hi, I'm Tony Barr | Tony Barr PA09 | 07/17/2006 | 35 | 37 | - | 2 |
| I Will Never Forget The news this past week has been filled with stories regarding the horrific events of 9-11-2001. Each story is punctuated with the line “Never Forget.”
I will never forget the atrocities ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 09/11/2011 | 8 | - | - | 22 |
| PA 09 Global Warming--The Debate is Over. It is Time to Act. I have been unhappy with the coverage of global warming in the local media in the last couple of weeks. Ch. 6 WJAC, The Outdoor Times, and the Altoona Mirror have all run stories or editorials that ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/23/2007 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| PA 09 Rural America—It's Time to Put Boots on Ground! I said it earlier but I really believed at one point that I was the only Democrat in the county. The sad part is that just about every Democrat that I've talked to in the last couple of years felt ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/19/2007 | 10 | 12 | - | - |
| PA 09 Why Progressives Must Focus on Rural America Progressives must focus their attention on rural America in 2008. Recent events such as the failure to withdraw troops from Iraq show just how tenuous the Democratic Party's hold on power is. If ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/11/2007 | 18 | 10 | 3 | - |
| PA-09 Biodiesel Now! One Man's Quest for Carbon Neutrality I have always tended toward the excitable, but a couple events in the past few days were enough to send me off the excite-o-meter. First, over the weekend on the MS 150 ride, a guy who I had never ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/25/2007 | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| PA-09 Fortune Favors the Brave Forgive me if this gets silly (and slightly long), but I do have a point. First,...
Yesterday, I taught my sons to ski!!! More accurately, probably, I got the heck out of the way and allowed my ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 12/29/2007 | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| PA-09 We Can Make a Difference, That's Why We Ride “When I see an adult on bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.” --H.G. Wells.
Well said Wells. This weekend I saw a lot. Four hundred and thirty to be exact. ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/22/2007 | 8 | 5 | - | 6 |
| PA-09 Chambersburg Public Opinion Endorses Barr Whew, what a weekend! Friday night, after an extensive interview with the Altoona Mirror's editorial board and an equally extensive interview with the Blairsville Dispatch for a pre-election feature, |
Tony Barr PA09 | 10/26/2008 | 7 | 12 | - | 14 |
| PA-09 A Real Thank You to Vets There will be many teary speeches today regarding the indebtedness we Americans have to OUR veterans. OUR hearts will swell, and we will become misty eyed. But as the day closes and we lay our ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 11/11/2007 | 16 | 7 | - | - |
| PA-09 Barr Beats Shuster! Ok, It doesn't really count for anything, but in Tuesday's primaries, Tony Barr got more votes in the Democratic primary than Bill Shuster got in the Republican primary. I know that it doesn't ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 04/24/2008 | 2 | 5 | - | 17 |
| PA-09 Bridge Collapse-Let's Fix Our Infrastructure Last night, I sat down to my computer after my kids were put to bed, and to my horror and astonishment, I saw that the bridge had collapsed over the Mississippi River in Minnesota. I called to my ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 08/02/2007 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 175 |
| PA-09 Dig! Dig! Little Pig! Root Hog! or Die! No, this piece is not about pork barrel politics. Rather, this piece is about the power of people to affect the status quo. The title of this piece came from an exhortation of my college football ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 01/04/2008 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| PA-09 Fighting for Hospital Employees I gave the following remarks this evening at a candlelight vigil for hospital workers who are negotiating a new contract. They are in serious jeopardy of losing their defined-benefit pension. I ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/26/2008 | 3 | 5 | - | 9 |
| PA-09 Incident at the Lake Reinforces That We Are All in This Together The giggling girls playing in the surf below was making great background music for my meal. I was sitting on the deck of a cottage on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie enjoying some R&R. The food and ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 08/19/2007 | 6 | 9 | - | 2 |
| PA-09 Let's Build Something My Dad, an extremely wise man, who went from being a ditch digger out of high school to becoming a successful small businessman, has a favorite phrase, “Do Something!” Throughout my life, |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/24/2008 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 16 |
| PA-09 Multiple thoughts on Important Issues Holy Cow! What a weekend! I'm still trying to get a handle on it. It has gone from the weird to Murphy working overtime to great family fun. And, oh yeah, great ideas for a series of diaries. I ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/07/2007 | 5 | 6 | - | - |
| PA-09 New Year's Resolution Much to the chagrin of my Dad, I don't like to make New Year's resolutions. It is not that I don't think introspection is important; it is incredibly important to assess where you are in life and ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 12/31/2007 | - | - | - | 2 |
| PA-09 Shuster leaves 3 million children behind I submitted the following guest editorial/letter to the editor to many newspapers throughout the 9th CD of PA last Friday. Some may say that the media window on this story may have passed, but I ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 10/05/2007 | 6 | 3 | - | 1 |
| PA-09 Support Our Troops--Bring Them Home Now or Support the Draft Now that the Senate has passed the $124 billion war spending bill, the President is sure to veto it because it will require that the troops be brought home starting October 1. At this point, those ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 04/27/2007 | 13 | 12 | - | 133 |
| PA-09 Support the Fair Elections Now Act I'm a politician. I admit that. I haven't been elected to anything yet, but still, I am a politician. I have been a politician for over a year now, and the more I run for office, the more that I ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 08/09/2007 | 7 | 4 | - | 14 |
| PA-09 We Cut It Twice And It's Still Too Short! That is a joke that my Dad likes to tell when we are working on a project, and we screw up. The joke does the trick. The levity breaks the tension, and it allows us to refocus on the job. I was ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 01/10/2008 | 4 | 1 | - | 37 |
| PA-09 We Salute a Progressive Hero Today we, my wife and I as well as many other Blair County Democrats, mourned, saluted, and buried a progressive hero, Ray Shaw. My wife, Liz, wrote a great piece for the Blair County Dems website ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 12/18/2007 | 7 | 6 | - | 8 |
| PA-09 Why I am Doing What I am Doing | Tony Barr PA09 | 10/31/2006 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 8 |
| PA-09: Economics, Accountability, and Action | Tony Barr PA09 | 10/28/2006 | 7 | 4 | - | 7 |
| PA09 Superman Does Yoga This is going to be as pretty as a middle aged guy in spandex...
I've had a long history with Superman. Years ago when somebody would express serious confidence in my ability to do an impossible ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/20/2008 | 4 | 3 | - | - |
| PA09 Support the Troops--Bring Them Home Now The following essay was submitted to multiple papers throughout the 9th district. These papers include the Uniontown Herald-Standard, Somerset Daily American, Johnstown Tribune-Democrat, Altoona ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/20/2007 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
| PA09 Who I am and How I think Government should work I gave the following remarks as an opening statement at a town hall meeting tonight in Chambersburg, Franklin County, PA. After these remarks were given, audience members asked many questions. ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 08/05/2008 | 5 | 5 | - | 11 |
| PA09 Being a Dad: Love and Money I wrote this earlier this week. Since this writing, it's been a tough week: a former student of my school beat his father to death with a splitting maul, a current student( a relative of ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 04/04/2008 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| PA09 Celebrating National Bike to Work Day Today was National Bike to Work Day. I rode as I do 3 to 4 times per week. In light of the recent admissions by our Fearless Leader on how he has stopped playing golf, it was the least I could do. |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/16/2008 | 9 | 11 | - | - |
| PA09 Fixing the Pain On Friday while I was eating my lunch, I was explaining to my lunchmates why the “free market” is not adequately addressing our current energy crisis in this country. “...... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/04/2008 | 7 | 5 | - | 15 |
| PA09 Hope Two years ago, this coming April 29, I sat on the chair outside my son’s bedroom having just put them down for a nap. At the time, my wife had stopped watching the news with me because I ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 04/01/2008 | 7 | 9 | - | - |
| PA09 Iraq Supplemental--I would have voted No I would have voted no on today's Iraq War Supplemental Funding Bill. I am angry that the Democrats allowed it to pass. I'm tired of Democrats that go ducking and covering every time the Republicans ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/24/2007 | 7 | 3 | - | - |
| PA09 Let's Celebrate Labor Day by Creating Jobs The following remarks were presented at a press conference at the Tony Barr for Congress headquarters in Duncansville, PA on Friday, Aug. 28 leading off the celebration of Labor Day weekend. ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 09/01/2008 | 5 | 5 | - | 1 |
| PA09 Rural America-Issues and How They Should Be Framed This past spring, I was in a meeting with a parent ( I am a special education teacher by profession.) when she looked at me and said, “Mr. Barr, you need to do something about health insurance.& |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/15/2007 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 127 |
| PA09 Rural America-Why Grassroots and Netroots Must Take Lead In the winter of 2005-2006, there was a great deal of buzz in the political circles I ran in regarding a guy who was seriously considering a run for Congress for my district. Smart, good-looking, ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/13/2007 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
| PA09 Who is Responsible for Educating Our Students? My oldest son will start kindergarten at our local public school this coming fall. Like any other parent, I worry about the quality of education that my sons will receive and what things they will ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 04/06/2008 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| PA09-Happy 4th-Let's do something real for our Vets I've had a great 4th weekend. I took a couple of days off to expand my kids playpark in the back yard. The story I'm about to tell you has been burning in the back of my head for the past couple of ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 07/04/2007 | 16 | 9 | - | 1 |
| Ridin the Dog | Tony Barr PA09 | 07/24/2006 | 7 | 6 | 1 | - |
| Thoughts on a Democratic Primary in Rural America Laughter, squeals, choked speech, hugs, fist pumps, excitement, adrenaline. Last night was the first election night in a long time that I really enjoyed. Joanne Nardelli, John Vatavuk, Irv Dasher ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 05/16/2007 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| Walking to Washington with Principals for Change A couple of weeks ago, I happened to hear a news report of some area principals walking to Washington DC to call attention to their SOLUTION to our present energy crisis. Though it was only a short ... |
Tony Barr PA09 | 06/06/2008 | 4 | 9 | - | 155 |