Education

Michael Scott Wasn’t the Only Bad Manager in Scranton

  • January 23, 2019

It’s been five years since the television show The Office ended, and Scranton is making headlines again. No, not because Michael Scott had an insensitive diversity training, nor because Ryan…

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Education

Can a Dwight Schrute Save Scranton?

  • November 8, 2016

Dwight K. Schrute is an employee at Dunder Mifflin—a fictional Scranton paper company featured in NBC’s The Office. And he just may be the key to overcoming the city’s very…

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Taxes & Economy

Pennsylvania’s Shrinking Population Problem

  • October 6, 2015

In The Office finale, Jim and Pam decide to pack up their family and move from Scranton, Pennsylvania to Austin, Texas. While Jim and Pam aren't real, their fictional trek to Texas…

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Education

Who’s For the Children?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 27, 2009

In the television comedy The Office, dim-witted boss Michael Scott remarks that he likes giving presents because they are “like this tangible thing that you can point to and say…

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Taxes & Economy

Did Dwight Schrute write Paulson’s speech before Congress?

  • Nathan Benefield
  • September 23, 2008

Was Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s speech before Congress plagiarized?  It sounds a lot like this clip from The Office. Here is Dwight’s presentation, with Paulson’s edits: This…

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More Rendell Rhetoric

  • Nathan Benefield
  • July 3, 2007

Governor’s latest news release: “Hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians are without health insurance, roads and bridges are crumbling, public transit services are being cut and medical research facilities…

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