Questions about the TIF proposal and other tax breaks for the hotel and convention center project awakened not only the concerns of Commissioners Shellenberger and Henderson, but also those of an increasing number of regular Lancaster citizens. Until this point, early spring, 2005, opposition to the project was thought to be limited to a handful of dogged hoteliers…
Month: April 2010
Value of discussion outweighs coarsening of dialogue
I am disappointed to see the end (at least for now) of TalkBack. There was a lot of garbage on there, but I think that it’s up to each mature citizen in a democracy to wade through the trash in order to get to the gems. Despite the all-too-frequent tendency of TalkBack discussions to devolve […]
Wants LNP to go all the way!
While regrettable that a public forum has been lost to Lancaster, and heaven knows Lancaster is in desperate need of more venues devoted to the sharing of differing ideas and ‘truths’, I feel Lancaster would be better served by the closing of the Lancaster Newspaper itself. In recent years LNP has seeming become nothing more […]
Not better off with TalkBack gone
Seems like there will be a handful of losers, as a result of this: LNP is sure to lose. The online version will slowly fade away, just like their daily circulation. Right, wrong, or indifferent many folks went to the site only to take part in the discussions. These will be missed. We the users […]
Blames racists in TalkBack community
The notion, as expressed by some, that Charlie Crystle ended TalkBack is absurd. It was not his property; he didn’t have access to the plug. Personally, I was surprised by the number of racist comments. I didn’t realize those sentiments still had many proponents. Charlie Crystle had a reason to be upset but Lancaster Newspapers […]
Pulling advertisement from LNP
I’m not too happy about this sudden shut down of Talk Back. I think they’ve made a big mistake in taking such drastic action. First to the public who reads and follows the news online, and the comments found on TB. And also the advertisers, who’ve now lost a captive part of potential Lancaster customers. […]
White liberals grease skids for another generation of minorities
While I agree with Charlie on some issues, the preference of shutting down an opinion board rather than minority students hearing what a few in the community think of members who make the paper for the crimes they commit is where he and I butt heads. No doubt he fears for the state of their […]
US economy grows 3.2% in first quarter
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: The US economy continued to grow at a healthy clip in the first three months of the year, as measures to stimulate output spurred spending and helped the recovery gain momentum. Gross domestic product grew at an adjusted annual rate of 3.2 per cent in the first quarter, Department of Commerce figures showed on Friday. That was slightly weaker than Wall Street analysts had expected and followed 5.6 per cent growth in the fourth quarter of last year.
While LNP suspends “TalkBack”, NewsLanc will offer “LNP Talk”.
In today’s Intelligencer Journal – New Era article concerning the shutdown of “TalkBack”, Harold Miller, CEO of the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc., explains “It’s been abused. It’s gone. Whether it ever comes back again, we’ll look and see.” Fair enough. However, In today’s Internet world, ‘Letters to the Editor’ for print can hardly take the place of real time dialogue among a newspaper and its readers.
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
News article “PAM still seeking permanent new home” reports “”We need to resolve this, but the time line has gotten a little softer,’ said Dr. Thomas F. Godfrey. Godfrey said PAM’s landlord, Union National Community Bank, has given the music academy an extra week to vacate its 42 N. Prince St. building.” WATCHDOG: How a […]
LNP cancels “Talk Back”; Charlie Crystle’s lament
The following appears at School District of Lancaster school board member Charlie Chrystle’s blog:
“Just now, the newspaper just took TalkBack offline. Here’s part of the message:
Fall in US jobless claims brings hope
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: Fewer US workers made first-time claims for jobless benefits last week, giving hope that accelerating economic growth would soon translate into job creation, official figures showed on Thursday. Initial jobless claims fell by 11,000 to 448,000, according to the Department of Labor. Analysts were hoping for a bigger fall, but the […]
Future of Intelligencer New Era’s “Talk Back”
NewsLanc is inquiring of the Lancaster Newspapers whether the discontinuation of “Talk Back” is a technical glitch, a change over, or – hard to believe – a discontinuance of the feature.
Time has come to regionalize towns, consolidate school districts
From the EXPRESS-TIMES’ opinion staff: Thomas Caltagirone, a state representative from Reading, is just plain crazy… He wants to start the process – which requires amending the state Constituition – to conjoin the state’s 2,562 municipaplities into 67 county governments. As we said, nuts. Certifiable. Except … except that if you’re listening to everything going […]