Year: 2007

Kudos

To the Sunday News for publishing “Remembering Dick and Molly” as an “In My Opinion” column. Several persons contributed to the article but, for various reasons and by their choice, NewsLanc’s president Robert Edwin Field was designated as author. “Remembering Dick and Molly” can be read at at this URL.

Really?

State Senator Gib Armstrong as reported in the Dec. 10 New Era: “In today’s environment people think twice about getting into public office,” he said. “There are a lot of people now, with the Internet and bloggers, who try to destroy anybody on any issue. They don’t care. That’s just the way it is. I […]

Kudos

To the Sunday News for its Dec. 16th “‘Lords’ of the City” front page exposé and other related articles about the inability of the City of Lancaster to enforce Code Regulations for rental properties and the resulting dire consequences. NewsLanc will soon suggest corrective measures that work well elsewhere for similar municipalities.

Isn’t Winning Enough?

The Sunday News well knows how unfairly County Commissioners Dick Shellenberger and Molly Henderson were treated by the monopoly newspapers on the issue of the convention center project and the grand jury report. Yet it persists in publishing “Days left in terms of County Commissioners Shellenberger and Henderson” in each edition. The Sunday News calls […]

Bad Taste

On Nov. 30th, that bastion of public morality, the New Era, owned by the paragon of virtue the monopoly Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., (partner in the greatest rip off in Lancaster’s history) published the photo of a sad looking woman accused of offering to perform an act of prostitution for an ‘undercover’ detective who patronized a […]

Confused Priorities

The Nov. 25th Sunday News confined news of the arrest of Garry Kasparov, former world chess champion, opposition leader and the foremost critic of President Vladimir Putin, to a single column on page A8 while devoting its front page almost entirely to four human interest stories of little if any news value. Readers are not […]

Waste Collection

On Nov. 14th, the Intelligencer Journal reported that a spokesman for the City’s Bureau of Solid Waste & Recycling told City Council that “waste” collection averaged 46% less per home in 2007 than in 2006. It also said a city councilman stated that it “seemed too good to be true” and praised the accomplishment. WATCHDOG: […]