According to Agence France Presse, “New York newspaper Newsday plans to start charging users of its Web site, a top executive of the company that owns the daily said Thursday.” This is an approach that has proven successful for the Wall Street Journal but was tried for some services by the New York Times a […]
Month: February 2009
More signs of print medium distress
R. I. P. www.breitbart.com “An annual convention of newspaper editors has been canceled so their publications can save money and focus on surviving the recession. “It’s just the second time that American Society of Newspaper Editors hasn’t convened. The last time occurred during the final months of World War II in 1945.”
LETTER: LNP Conspires With Project Partners
Editor’s note: The following comes from a representative of TRRAAC. “Lancaster Newspapers refuses to report that the project partners are responsible for submitting false statements to the state government in their attempt to obtain millions of dollars to cleanup the LCSWMA dump in Manheim Township. This week, both Lancaster Intelligencer and Lancaster New Era reported […]
State has no money for us, plenty for them!
Perhaps NewsLanc would be interested in writing about the contradiction in two stories in last night’s and today’s papers: while the state is reducing hours and services and may even entirely close down, or cause to be closed down due to lack of funding – F&M/LGH are asking, and expecting, to get $20 million from […]
EDITORIAL; Bitter sweet news. An end of the Robber Barons?
News reports that the “Rail yard move is under way” bring mixed feelings. Yes, enabling the expansion of Franklin and Marshall College and connection of road patterns in North West Lancaster are very desirable things. But the underhanded, undemocratic manner in which the dump site was chosen should concern citizens not only because of the […]
Current LCCCA committed to transparency
At the Feb. 26th monthly public Lancaster County Convention Center Authority meeting, a modest public request was honored by the Board. Randolph Carney, a city resident, noted that, according to the LCCCA website, the project current value stands at $174.4 million. However, Carney observed, the actual project cost has fluctuated over the course of the […]
Mock trial final a cliff hanger
Last year’s runner up for the county championship Catholic High was once again locked in battle with 2008 winner McCaskey High before four jury members in a court room presided over by County Judge Jeffrey D. Wright. After evaluating the impressive presentations by both teams, the jury split 2 to 2 between McCaskey, representing the […]
Rapid obsolescence and sinful ugliness
Here is a recurring theme: We are seeing it in Philadelphia: When business drops, it is pitched as a deficiency of the venue, and a demand is made for funds to “upgrade”. There is no doubt, that remedial or restorative work needs to be done on a regular basis, but the monumental funds demanded are […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
In a Feb. 26th column headed “Ayers gag bid unfunny – and un-American” Jeff Hawkes states “…there’s no place for suppressing even the most repugnant speaker. Ignore him. Denounce him. But uphold his right to have his say.” He criticizes seven Lancaster County state legislators for a letter calling upon Millersville University’s president to cancel […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
A full color display ad for Chapman Ford appears at the bottom of the front page of the Feb. 26th Intelligencer Journal. WATCHDOG: What ever it takes! We need at least one newspaper in this town. The Internet is changing how we obtain information, advertisers are deserting the print media, and times are tough. Radio […]
Building Character pulsates spirit of adaptation and reuse
By Cliff Lewis The 300 block of North Queen Street may well be the cradle of a cultural Renaissance in Downtown Lancaster. And the glowing center of this gestating movement would have to be Building Character. Tucked away from the west side of Queen, Building Character’s exposed brick walls and bare rafters have come to […]
Building Character: Pulsates spirit of adaption and reuse
(First report by Cliff B. Lewis on the Downtown cultural scene) The 300 block of North Queen Street may well be the cradle of a cultural Renaissance in Downtown Lancaster. And the glowing center of this gestating movement would have to be Building Character. Tucked away from the west side of Queen, Building Character’s exposed […]
Will Philadelphia become a one newspaper city?
According to the Feb. 25th Philadelphia Daily News, one of the main issues between creditors and management is whether to continue to publish the Daily News in addition to the Inquirer or allow Philadelphia to become a one newspaper city. According to the article, Brian Tierney, publisher of both newspapers, declared “We’ve been able to […]
CORRECTION to Veri & Jamanis concert time
Veri and Jamanis are scheduled to perform the full Gershwin program at Weil Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) on March 26th at 8pm, not at 12:15am as was previously reported during a moment of our publisher’s mental lapse!