Month: September 2009

INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA

The last two paragraphs in an article headed “‘Drugs 101’ aims to alert Manheim Township parents” state: “To combat student drug abuse, Manheim Township School District plans to expand its drug and alcohol counseling and education programs. “It’s also considering implementing stepped-up searches of student lockers by drug-sniffing dogs and adopting a mandatory drug-testing program, […]

As NewsLanc snoozes, Lancaster loses

Where is the Old Dog these days? Too busy checking out sandwich shops and movies. While Lancaster Township moves its police protection from Lancaster City to Manheim Township officers, NewsLanc sleeps. We have to wonder why. Why hasn’t NewsLanc bothered to ask the tough questions? How long does it take a patrol officer to drive from the Lancaster Airport to the New Danville Pike?

BLOOMBERG.COM

“My job is to put together a bill that will become law,” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus said before the vote on Rockefeller’s amendment to the proposed Public Health Plan. “I fear if this provision is in this bill as it comes out of this committee, it will jeopardize” the overhaul effort, he said. […]

COMMENTARY: “Capitalistic Cronyism”

In recent days, we have encountered an apt term that helps explain the offenses that have repeatedly occured here in Lancaster and throughout the nation, resulting with the top one percent of the population ever growing richer over the past two decades while the balance remains the same or declines. It is called “Capitalistic Cronyism”, the working among a group of the already very wealthy to further enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of society.

INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA

Page A5: “Homeless sex offenders in Ga. Sent to live in woods; Laws keep many out of shelters”, “Video shows teens beating student to death”, “Abuse led British woman to kill disabled daughter, self”. WATCHDOG: The stories make us sick, so a wag of the tail to the Intell for publishing them. Ostracism of so-called […]

EDITORIAL: A Yom Kippur message

If we continue to allow hundreds of thousands of our young people – black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, white – to grow up without t a feeling that they have a stake in this society, if we let them come into young adulthood without ever holding a meaningful job, without any sense of hope, I think we are asking for trouble. We can’t retreat from them. We can’t turn our backs on them.

NEW YORK TIMES

In his column in reference to the recent community activist Acorn scandal of an isolated case of improperly advising sex workers, Public Editor Clark Hoyts reports: “Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news, agreed with me that the paper was ‘slow off the mark,’ and blamed ‘insufficient tuned-in-ness to the issues that are dominating Fox […]

A Troubled Informant

“The Informant!,” directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring Matt Damon is as irritating as it is interesting. But it’s still worth seeing. Based on the true story of Mark Whitacre, an executive who cooperated with an FBI investigation of price fixing at the behemoth Archer Daniels Midland company, it suffers from the kind of identity crisis that keeps it teetering on the edge of disaster…

Improving SD of L athletics on all levels

Jon Mitchell’s role as athletic director not only demands that he oversee all sports programs at McCaskey, it requires thoughtful coordination of every school-sponsored athletic program within the School District of Lancaster—from elementary school to high school, and from students to coaches. Although this may seem a daunting jurisdiction, Mitchell is confident that a holistic approach is the surest route to substantial reform.

SUNDAY NEWS

News article: “Numbers crunch: How can city and Manheim Township be so far apart in bids to police Lancaster Township? Warm up a calculator.” Editorial: “Bargain Basement? It’s hard to say who won or lost in the Lancaster Township police contract bidding, but cheaper can prove costlier”…