Welcome to NewsLanc.com, an e-zine focused on the important issues in Lancaster city and county. Our mission is to provide an alternative source of coverage and comment from the monopoly Lancaster press. We will provide news without spin, editorials without vested interests and personal attacks, and solicit vigorous discussions by the public.
Over the past year, NewsLanc.com has evolved in several exciting ways, including the distribution of our weekly newsletters downtown at Central Market on Saturday mornings and the addition of a full-time reporter and editor.
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Robert Edwin Field, President
Graduate of University of California - Berkeley, BA '59 with major in economics. Semi-retired builder, owner and operator of apartment complexes and hotels
(TheManorGroup.com). Partners with son Richard who develops real estate and planned communities in Eastern Europe. Executive producer for award winning motion pictures "Liquid Sky" (1983), "Diamond Men" (2001), and the documentary "Stalin's Wife" (2005). The motion picture
"Perestroika" is to be released early in 2009. Finance chairman of Arlen Specter's successful 1980 state wide senatorial campaign. Co-founder with Melvin R. Allen of Project Forward Leap, for twenty years a program providing five weeks of educational overnight summer camp plus a year around academic support program for about 300 inner city youngsters annually of academic promise. Founder of Central Pennsylvania Syringe Exchange. Co-founder with Kevin B. Zeese of Common Sense for Drug Policy. Co-sponsor (2002 - 2005) of a state and federally approved Lancaster Prototype Methadone
Program permitting local prescription fulfillment and medical care for stable clients while patients remain under aegis of a regional methadone clinic.
Publisher of NewsLanc.com.
Committed to the concept that an accurately informed public will make sound
policy decisions over the long run.
Cliff Lewis serves both as
a reporter and feature writer. He is a 2008 graduate of Millersville University,
majoring in English with a minor in History. Cliff is also a local musician, a
coffee aficionado, and a card-carrying Downtown Lancastrian. He and his wife
currently reside on West Orange Street. Until accepting his new position, Cliff
was employed as a technical writer.
Douglas "Doug" McVay is a researcher and is also the webmaster for NewsLanc.com in addition to several other sites. He primarily does policy research and analysis focusing on substance abuse and drug control issues. A writer/cultural critic, Doug is also an avid bicyclist. He too can sometimes be seen in downtown Lancaster handing out newsletters.
