At their weekly meeting this morning, the County Commissioners heard a brief presentation on the status of the renovations to the County office building at 150 North Queen Street. Mike Myers, Operations Manager for KCI Technologies, the firm managing the construction, revealed that the targeted completion date for the project is June 2009. The County […]
Month: March 2008
EDITORIAL: Rick Gray’s Mythical $20 million; Art Morris’s forgotten two million
In August of 2006, Mayor Rick Gray gave an interview to WGAL-TV in which he proclaimed “What we have done is close the funding gap” of $20 million. The “gap” had caused Penn Square Partners to announce that the convention center project was being aborted. The interview is well worth watching. Because most of the […]
EDITORIAL: Lehman Contributions Demonstrate Power of Convention Center Supporters
As revealed by NewsLanc.com, almost half of the funding for Craig Lehman’s county commissioner campaign came from special interest groups that clearly had no direct stake in the Lehman campaign. It is reasonable to assume that they sent their checks on behalf of Senator Gibson Armstrong who is a prime mover behind the project. Representative […]
Columbia Making Huge Mistake
I found it a little backwards that Columbia wants to put a highway on its waterfront. Granted the RR is already there, but quite a few RRs have gone to trails in the past decade. To take a city’s beautiful asset and farther remove it from citizens just seems to be a huge mistake. The […]
Matching Grant Offer Praised
Thank you very much for the $10,000.00 pledge (LOL and the media hype) for renovations to Rodney Park. There are those of us who have been trying for years, to no avail, to get improvements to our park for our children. As you have recently seen, our area is rather economically depressed, however, our children […]
A Stretch to Insinuate a Conflict of Interest
I think the following question goes against Newslanc’s proposed mission: “Is there a coincidence that soon after the funding was raised largely from Lancaster’s Power Elite that Darcus took over the helm of the LCCCA and rammed the project through despite considerable opposition and all logic?” Perhaps the piece would have been more appropriate under […]
Citizens Group Airs Concerns about Railyard Plan
News broke recently that Franklin & Marshall College, in partnership with Lancaster General Hospital and Norfolk Southern Railroad company, are considering moving the Dillerville Rail Yard switching station from its current location between the college and Clipper Magazine Stadium to an 11-acre stretch of land between the Little Conestoga Creek and Harrisburg Pike. An organization […]
ACLU to Host Community Immigration Forum, Wednesday
All are invited to attend a “Community Immigration Forum” on Wednesday, March 26 from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm in City Council Chambers at Southern Market Center in Downtown Lancaster. Topics of discussion will include the experiences of immigrants in our area, legislation in Pennsylvania related to the issue of immigration, and problems with the […]
County Expected to Approve Polling Place Changes, Give Update on 150 N. Queen St.
Three local schools have apparently decided that they no longer wish to be used as polling places. Citing safety concerns, the governing bodies of Taylor Elementary School of Columbia, Lancaster Christian School, and St. Anthony’s Catholic School of Lancaster have opted not to permit their usage as polling places starting with the state’s Primary Election […]
WATCHDOG
WATCHDOG: Shame on the monopoly Lancaster newspapers for abrogating its journalistic responsibility to report on how Commissioner Craig Lehman’s campaign received $46,000 from special interest groups. In this case, silence denotes complicity.
COMMENTARY: A Pact With the Devil?
For those of us who found Ted Darcus’s actions as chair of the Convention Center heavy-handed and ignorant, it has been difficult to reconcile his despicable actions at the LCCCA with the splendid service he has long provided the youth of our community. One of Darcus’s most outspoken critics experienced a revelation when he paid […]
Congratulations
Congratulations on raising the issue of the obvious conflict of interest with interim Lancaster County Convention Center Authority executive director, Art Morris, a longtime Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. columnist, representing the public to Penn Square Partners. Your readers undoubtedly know that half of Penn Square Partners is Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. This should be unacceptable to the […]
KUDOS
Kudos to the Intell’s Jeff Hawkes for his substantive and thoughtful March 21 column “Smart money is on new plan for school funding.” Hawkes describes how state aid for educating school children has shrunk over the decades to a point where Pennsylvania is 47th in a ranking of states for school funding equity. He cites […]
Challenges Veracity of F & M Letter to Intell / New Era
Nancy Collins, Franklin & Marshall Vice President for Communications, in a letter published Mar. 15 in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, charged that a Mar. 8 column by New Era columnist Carol Petersen (“F&M’s what’s-good-for-us-is-good-for-you concept”) contained “a number of inaccuracies.” One of these “inaccuracies” that Ms. Collins attempts to correct has to do with […]