It isn’t only the Lancaster Newspapers that are becoming thinner, month by month. Published reports indicate that even the advertising revenue for the vaunted New York Times fell about 21% in November as compared to a year earlier. This is after a 16% drop in October. Classified ad revenue, one of the most profitable segment […]

“The Journal Register is the old Ingersol group… They were facing backruptcy in the early 1990s because they had so much debt in junk bonds. “These people are ruthless, don’t give a damn about newspapers other than to make money. It is sad that they were able to acquire so many publications. The debt from […]

“I wonder if Lancaster Newspapers is not already in default mode, already assuming that its readers are getting the important news from other sources. “The front page of today’s New Era has a huge story — ‘Extra! Extra! Read all about it, folks!’ — about people who wear shorts year-round. I am relieved that Cindy […]

Presumably the City went to the great expense of installing parking meters throughout downtown for two reasons: 1) To ration scarce parking space, in some locations to half an hour, others an hour, and others two hours. 2) To raise revenue. (Just this year the City raised the cost from $0.25 for 15 minutes to […]

“It is not unusual to have concrete floors and rented carpeting. Carpeting only makes sense when you know what the core events are going to be. It needs to be replaced every five years. “However, many of the large venues have a mix of floor finishes. At Long Beach, for instance, most of the halls […]

Bad times are the seeds for better times, provided the government follows well charted Keynsian economic policies. Auto and trucks wear out over time. Sooner or later they will have to be replaced. And when the recovery starts, the demand will combine both the normal with the postponed. Families are formed, grow and then shrink […]

We don’t understand why an affiliate of one of the most successful firms in the county (www.TheManorGroup.com) has not received a single inquiry concerning the following well paying opening, but we sure wish we could find the right person. If you know a good candidate, please bring the opportunity to his / her attention, even […]

Excerpted from the New Yorker, Dec. 22, 2008. “News You Can Lose” by James Surowiecki “Newspaper readership has been slowly dropping for decades—as a percentage of the population, newspapers have about half as many subscribers as they did four decades ago—but the Internet helped turn that slow puncture into a blowout. Papers now seem to […]

Jacques Gibble, guest education columnist for the Dec. 21st Sunday News, states: “I agree that telling a student he is doing well when he is not is immoral and has a chilling effect on long term growth. But for many years our schools have operated on the belief that academic success is mainly controlled by […]