NewsLanc.com is an e-zine focused on the important issues facing 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 from 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 Friday and Saturday mornings and the addition of a full-time reporter and editor.

If you have any questions, tips, or suggestions, please write to us at info@newslanc.com.

Robert Edwin Field, President 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.

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.) He can be reached via email at Field@newslanc.com.

Jilly Harris serves as webmaster.  She attends The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division.  A recent arrival to Lancaster, she formerly was employed as a file clerk for a South Bend, IN law firm. She is also a certified floral designer.