by Cliff B. Lewis “Greenscapes” was formally adopted today as a new element in the Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan. The Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the initiative after a public presentation by Michael Domin, Principal Planner for the Lancaster County Planning Commission. Prior to the final vote, County Commissioner Craig Lehman asserted that Greenscapes has […]
Month: February 2009
Veri and Jamanis in Budapest
For admirers of the Lancaster piano duo, artistic founders of the Pennsylvania Music Academy (PAM), and for those who simply enjoy good music and travel, visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWwu_mj6YpQ . Veri’s former Lancaster piano student, now Budapest resident, and current East European real estate developer Richard Field ‘filmed’ the couple with “a hand held high definition HDCCD […]
NEW ERA
Feb. 24: “Volunteers found 734 people living in homeless shelters, transitional housing and on the streets. That number is 27 more than a year ago, and the highest number found in the annual count done in the last 15 years… [Kay Moshier] McDivitt believes the Jan. 26 survey likely would have found more people if […]
Green Infrastructure Plan to be Presented Tomorrow
by Cliff B. Lewis A new Green Infrastructure Element in the Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan will be presented tommorow for final affirmation at the Lancaster County Commissioners’ weekly meeting. The new initiative, known as Greenscapes, will serve as a replacement and expansion upon a similar Lancaster open space plan from 1992. Greenscapes will provide the […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
A Feb. 24th article discusses Senator Arlen Specter comments on the recently passed “Stimulus Bill” as follows: “Going back to the economic stimulus bill, Specter said he believed the final bill should have included more tax cuts than spending. Specter said the inefficiency of the government has been shown during the economic crisis, especially with […]
Cliff Lewis joins NewsLanc staff
NewsLanc welcomes Cliff Lewis 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, […]
NEW ERA
It’s Feb. 21 editorial harumphs: (1)”Democrats in the U.S. Senate made a mistake when they bowed to racial power politics and voted to confirm Roland Burris to the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama… (2) Burris, who clearly wanted the Senate seat, should have turned his back on Blagojevich — as all honorable people […]
For the birds? Not.
This is for the bird lovers of Lancaster, “Are you pleased with the greasing of your roof, yard, sidewalk and auto with the feces of Crows?” … In as much as salmonella and other diseases are linked to excessive contact to bird waste, I think it’s time to either reduce the herd or send them […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
In the Feb. 23rd edition, David Bauder, AP Television Writer, states: “Of the 681 people who appeared as guests on a dozen cable news and four network Sunday morning talk shows in the three weeks the ended last Sunday, only 41, or 6 percent, were economists…That count alone indicates a lack of effort in tracking […]
Is F&M’s application for a rail freight assistance grant a travesty?
John Fry, President of Franklin and Marshall College, is consumate at framing matters in a self serving manner. Small wonder he is the product of business schools rather than academia as were the college’s prior leaders. The matter is deemed newsworthy because it raises the issue of why a joint effort by F & M, […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
The Feb. 23rd editorial states “Those who oppose [Williaml Ayers] visit have the right to protest, write letters to the editor or simply not attend. But they don’t have the right to force the university to cancel his visit.” WATCHDOG: A wag of the tail in salute!
Newspaper bankruptcies strike close to home
According to the Feb. 23rd issue of The New York Times, the filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection by the Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc. is in large part the result of paying too high a price, $562 million, in 2006 for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. It quotes Brian Tierney, Publisher of the […]
Real Estate boon of 1920s led to crash of 1929
Editor’s note: The author, Polly Cleveland, PhD, shared the following with NewsLanc’s publisher. It is posted at www.georgiststudies.org. We published it because it provides a different perspective on the national economic crisis. Economists conventionally attribute the Great Depression to blunders by the then-new Federal Reserve Bank. According to this story, promoted by Milton Friedman and […]
A modest suggestion to save chlildren’s lives
NewsLanc inquired of the Lancaster Police Department concerning the recent lack of a well trained school crossing guard, if one is there at all, on Walnut Street in proximity to the Sacred Heart School and Reynolds Middle School. We received the following response from Officer M .Branner: ” … I am in the process of […]