Year: 2009

Lancaster Person of the Year 2009

Without concerned and knowledgeable citizens monitoring government activities, the fragile democracy from which we all benefit would quickly disappear. Therefore NewsLanc passed over obvious and otherwise deserving local luminaries such as LCCCA former chair Art Morris and Intelligencer New Era columnist Jeff Hawkes to select Randolph Carney as “Lancaster Person of the Year 2009.”

PAM transfer of real estate completed

Drivers along Marietta Avenue saw moving vans at the home of Francis Veri and Michael Jamanis, Sr., founders of the Pennsylvania Music Academy (PAM),  as the artists moved before year’s end from their formerly PAM owned residence to their new home nearby in School Lane Hills. As part of the settlement between the academy and […]

NEWSMAX.COM

Jobless Claims Fall Unexpectedly As Layoffs Ease The number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits dropped unexpectedly last week, a sign the job market is healing as the economy slowly recovers. The Labor Department says that new claims for unemployment insurance fell by 22,000 to a seasonally adjusted 432,000, the lowest since […]

NEW ERA

Its editorial “Al-Qaida in Yemen a gathering threat” concludes: “But Yemen could be considered the kind of ‘gathering threat’ that George Bush spoke of in reference to Iraq —  the reason behind a previous geography lesson. WATCHDOG: If NewsLanc bestowed a ‘Height of Ignorance’ award for 2009, this editorial would have snuck in under the deadline! […]

NEW YORK TIMES

“Army History Finds Early Missteps in Afghanistan” reports: “In the fall of 2003, the new commander of American forces in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, decided on a new strategy. Known as counterinsurgency, the approach required coalition forces to work closely with Afghan leaders to stabilize entire regions, rather than simply attacking insurgent cells… […]

PAM’s and Lancaster’s futures intertwined

The dream of husband and wife team Fran Veri and Michael Jamanis and those others, public and private, that helped bring about the Pennsylvania Academy of Music can yet be achieved… but much depends on the actions of PAM’s Business Committee. PAM’s future can far transcend what would be the circumstance if it were but a school for local students whose parents would like them to learn to play a musical instrument.

INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA

In a column entitled “Sometimes love can outlive addiction” Jeff Hawkes describes: “Twenty-one times Rey entered treatment. Twenty-one times he relapsed.,, “In April 2008, Rey, 36, and Linda Cruz, 41, residents of the 300 block of Beaver Street, experienced a turning point. Rey started taking a daily dose of methadone, a synthetic narcotic that deadens […]

Dual language kindergarten ahead of schedule

The School District of Lancaster’s English-Spanish immersion kindergarten class is running at a healthy pace, according to Kim Marucci, district coordinator for social studies and world languages. The district’s 25-student pilot program, now in its first year, may even be supplemented with more advanced reading materials to keep up with the students’ progress…

Everybody gets a ‘rake off’

In response to “Saving Mexico” EXCELLENT This is another opportunity for our dear friend in China to buy some more prison bonds from our prison for profit. Let face it, prison bonds are one of the USA’s most profitable exports, and we just committed 30,000 more troops to protect the world’s largest opium field and […]

PAM lacked workable business plan

There is a LOT to be concerned about here, especially the millions of taxpayer dollars which were spent on this building. Obviously the owners of PAM did not have a workable business plan, or else they at least grossly overestimated revenue while seriously underestimating expenses. Most worrisome is the fact that so many politicians apparently […]

INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA

“Pennsylvania Academy of Music, bank cut deal on building Academy will stay; $11M debt dropped” reports: “The Pennsylvania Academy of Music has decided to be a debt-free tenant, not a debt-ridden owner. PAM, which defaulted this fall on $11.1 million in loans from Union National Community Bank, has signed the building over to the bank. In return, the bank has canceled a sheriff’s sale of the property, forgiven the loans and rented the landmark back to PAM for one year.”

INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL

An editorial “A better safety net” concerning the Senate’s passing the health care bill concludes, “Today, Social Security is considered a necessary part of one’s retirement nest egg. Fifty years from now, we believe Americans will give an emphatic thumbs-up to this Congress for addressing a pressing need and expanding the nation’s safety net to […]

NewsLanc interviews Canadians on health care

On a trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia Province, Canada, a NewsLanc reporter conducted an informal focus group consisting of a registered nurse, an engineer, a stock broker, a business consultant and a physician in general practice. They were asked their opinion of the Canadian mostly government operated health system and in all cases they had a favorable opinion and virtually identical opinions.