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Over the past year, NewsLanc.com has evolved in several exciting ways, including the distribution of our weekly newsletters downtown at Central Market on Friday and Saturday mornings and the addition of a full-time reporter and editor.

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Robert Field

Robert Edwin Field, Editor and Publisher

Graduate of University of California – Berkeley, BA ‘59 with a major in economics.

Owner and operator of apartment complexes and hotels (http://themanorgroup.com). Partners with son Richard who develops  planned communities in Eastern Europe. Executive producer for award winning motion pictures “Liquid Sky” (1983), “Diamond Men” (2001), the documentary “Stalin’s Wife” (2005), and “Perestroika” (2009).

Finance chair of Arlen Specter’s successful 1980 statewide 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 year-round academic support for about 300 inner city kids each year.

Co-founder with Kevin B. Zeese of Common Sense for Drug Policy. See interview.

Founder of the Central Pennsylvania Syringe Exchange providing support for exchanges in Lancaster and Reading.

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.

Co-sponsor of the deregulation of the sale of syringes in Pennsylvania.

Sponsor of a program providing approximately three hundred small (approximately 300 books each) community libraries throughout Afghanistan and Guatemala.

Project Manager for the aborted renovation and expansion of the Lancaster Public Library.

Although living in Lancaster for over 40 years, Field only turned his political activism to local issues as he became aware of the  misrepresentations and crony capitalism taking place concerning the Convention Center Project.  (See mission statement.) Field can be reached via email by clicking this link.

Kevin Zeese

Kevin Zeese has been a political activist since graduating from George Washington Law School in 1980.

He works on peace, economic justice, criminal law reform and reviving American democracy.

As Executive Director of the Campaign for Fresh Air & Clean Politics he directs its key projects including Voters for Peace (www.VotersForPeace.US), Prosperity Agenda (www.ProsperityAgenda.US), Come Home America (www.ComeHomeAmerica.US) and True Vote (www.TrueVote.US). He also serves as president of Common Sense for Drug Policy (www.csdp.org).

He has been active in independent and third party political campaigns including for state legislative offices in Maryland, governor of California and U.S. president, where he served as press secretary and spokesperson for Ralph Nader in 2004. He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2006 and was the only person ever nominated by the Green Party, Libertarian Party and Populist Party.

Bill Keisling

Bill Keisling is author of more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction. His essays, investigative writings, and short stories have appeared in diverse magazines and journals including The North American Review, Rolling Stone, and The Progressive magazines. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for his novel The Meltdown. The introduction to his first nonfiction book, Three Mile Island: Turning Point, was written by R. Buckminster Fuller.

Keisling grew up in close proximity to the Pennsylvania governor’s office, and the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General. He has published several books on corruption in Pennsylvania government and the attorney general’s office, including The Sins of Our Fathers, We All Fall Down, and The Midnight Ride of Jonathan Luna.

He is also the writer and editor of Yardbird.com.

Slava Tsukerman

Slava Tsukerman was born in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Best known as the director/writer/producer of a cult classic Liquid Sky, Slava Tsukerman has directed internationally 43 films of different genres. He has received 13 awards from many international film festivals.

Tsukerman made his debut at the age of 21, as the director/writer/producer of I Believe in Spring. This first independently made fiction short in the Soviet Union history, won First Prize in the Moscow Amateur Film Festival, was awarded in the Film Festival in Montreal and was successfully released nationally.

Tsukerman’s films Great Bells, The Heat in Cold Numbers, Professor Alexandrov’s Discovery, Vaudeville On Vaudeville won the highest awards in the Soviet film industry. His documentary Once Upon a Time There Were Russians in Jerusalem, produced by Israeli Television, was a first prize winner at the Tenth Hollywood Festival of World Television.

More recently Tsukerman wrote and director the critically acclaimed documentary “Stalin’s Wife” and the motion picture “Perestroika” which received highly favorable reviews on the West Coast and elsewhere but was later slammed by a young reviewer for the New York Times.

Jilly Harris serves as webmaster.  She attended The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division for two years and now attends Harrisburg Area Community College’s Lancaster Campus.  She formerly was employed as a file clerk for a South Bend, IN law firm. She is also a certified floral designer.