I found the following purely by accident: http://www.padutchcountryblog.com/ At first glance, this site looks like nothing more than a blog about Lancaster County. But look at the “About” page: it is actually a function of the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau… What’s more, the PDCVB is intentionally using social networks like Flickr, Twitter, FaceBook, […]
Month: February 2009
What City Are We In Today?
Excerpts below reproduced courtesy of http://LookingAtLancaster.blogspot.com/ One of the most often used reasons given as to why the downtown Lancaster, PA taxpayer-financed hotel and convention center project will be successful is because of how unique the facility will be. The combined structure includes the façade of the once-historic Watt & Shand building (which before demolition […]
REQUEST FOR ART TO DISPLAY IN THE CONVENTION CENTER
The following notice has been recently published at www.lccca.org: The Lancaster County Convention Center Authority requests proposals for works of art to be installed in the new Lancaster County Convention Center; situated in downtown Lancaster. The Lancaster County Convention Center features over 70,000 square feet of flexible meeting space; anchored by the 46,000 sq. ft. […]
SUNDAY NEWS
A Feb. 22 article “Empty store fronts a sign of the times” paints a relatively optimistic future for “anchored malls” despite momentary vacancies generated by bankruptcies of the parent companies of Circuit City and Linen N Things. WATCHDOG: Not mentioned in the article is the gigantic Park City that forty years ago replaced downtown Lancaster […]
NEWSMAX.COM
A report headed “Bill Clinton to Obama: Speak Hopefully” goes on to say “…President Clinton says he thinks President Barack Obama should talk more optimistically about the prospects that the nation will recover from its current deep economic woes.” WATCHDOG: Our oft repeated point. It is one thing to inform. It is another to terrify […]
More from Charlie Rose re future of media
Viewers interested in the future of the Internet and the print medium might want to visit www.CharlieRose.com and view “A conversation with entrepreneur and software engineer Marc Andreessen” which was broadcast on Feb. 19, 2009, part of a series. Andreessen, co-founder of NetScape and several other highly successful web sites, boldly suggests that most newspapers […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
Headlined “Reduced to rubble, Square collapse nearly complete”, the Feb. 21 article goes on to state: “In the 1960s, it was called ‘urban renewal.’ In more recent years, it was called a ‘concrete monstrosity.’ In a few weeks, it will just be a memory.” WATCHDOG: In the past, city leaders ignored warnings that there would […]
NEW ERA
An article on Feb. 20th reports “Lancaster County’s Republican state House delegation is putting pressure on leaders of the higher-education system and Millersville University to cancel an upcoming lecture by radical-turned-professor William Ayers.” WATCHDOG: We protect every American’s right of free speech under the First Amendment to the Constitution by allowing problematic situations. If the […]
Challenge to New Era’s integrity
The following letter was forwarded to NewsLanc.com by a representative of TRRAAC: “Jack [Brubaker] – why did Economic Development Company of Lancaster County (EDC) finance claim they had a commitment of $1 million from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) when DEP now denies any commitment? “Three Manheim Township commissioners have now publicly come out […]
Lost opportunity
American Libraries Online, Feb. 18: Stimulus package will fund libraries. The $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (PDF file) signed by President Obama February 17 includes several economic-stimulus provisions that could directly benefit libraries. Last November, Karen Haley Field, then president of the Lancaster Public Library (Duke Street), urged that the remodeling and expansion of […]
Incentives for convention organizers
No incentives for promoters and organizers = no conventions. I have questioned for years who is going to fund these incentives that will be required, in a buyer’s market, to lure business to our Convention Center. It is certainly not coming from Penn Square Partners. Does the PDCVB [tourist bureau] plan on funding this as […]
NEWSMAX.COM
On Feb. 19, NewsMax.com reports: “Under the new projections, the unemployment rate will rise to between 8.5 and 8.8 percent this year. The old forecasts, issued in mid-November, predicted the jobless rate would rise to between 7.1 and 7.6 percent. “The Fed also believes the economy will contract this year between 0.5 and 1.3 percent. […]
LETTER: "Time for full disclosure"
Editor’s note: A representative of TRRAAC forwarded the following with the side notation that “The plot thickens.” The spokesperson also questions why the Lancaster Newspapers have not reported on the “on the Manheim Twp Commissioners and the stormwater issue.” According to the below, the Lancaster Newspapers Inc. are tangentially associated with the project. TRRAAC recently […]
Authority delays access to Stevens and Lee invoices for 30 days
Over the course of planning the Convention Center, the law firm of Stevens and Lee was paid over $7 million dollars by the Authority, all on the basis of invoices that disclosed nothing other than “For professional services rendered.” Authority board members and critics have long sought and been denied the usual information that accompany […]