At today’s County Commissioners’ Meeting, the Countywide Redevelopment Authority was authorized to amend its contract with the Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership (LHOP), allowing the provision of $300,000 in LHOP assistance funds to City homebuyers.
Under the new arrangement, LHOP funds can now be accessed for homes within the City limits.
Editor’s note on letter reproduced below: In 2006, the three members of the Convention Center Authority wrote to the district attorney and asked his assistance in obtaining access to information concerning what conmprised over $7 million in invoices from the law firm of Stevens and Lee. Ted Darcus, Chair, gave ongoing litigation as the reason […]
At today’s Planning Session, the County Commissioners approved an amendment to Lancaster’s agreement with the PA Bureau of Commissions, Elections and Legislation regarding the disbursement of funds from the existing Help American Vote Act (HAVA). The Federal grants were originally slated to last through 2009; however, with the US Congressional Elections approaching in 2010, the […]
According to magazine web site Small Market Meetings: “The 70-room Cork Factory Hotel is scheduled to open this summer in downtownLancaster in a converted industrial building. The Cork Factory will have4,000 square feet of meeting space, and is part of a resurgenence that includes the new Lancaster County Convention Center and the Marriott Lancaster at […]
A constant refrain coming from supporters of the convention center project, including Sen. Armstrong, Rep. Barley, Mayor Smithgall, Commissioner Terry Kauffman — was that the project would especially help the local hospitality industry and needed its support. They were unsuccessful in persuading those said to benefit from the great idea.
At today’s County Commissioners’ Planning Session, the Commissioners granted a $1,800.91 tax exoneration for three properties owned, but not actively used, by Manheim Township School District (MTSD). A tax exoneration is essentially a de-facto exemption that must be specially granted for a property that does not formally qualify for tax-exempt status. As explained by Dee […]
Are you interested in looking into how divorce lawyers and the county judgeship are milking divorce suits to the point where there is no money left? About 130 men are in jail right now for failure to pay court ordered support. How does that help the situation?
The March 16 article entitled “Dalies Dying, But News Business Is Thriving” goes on to say: “While the business model of many news organizations appears to be fracturing, there’s little indication that consumers are losing interest in news, says the Project for Excellence in Journalism….Newspapers have failed to figure out how to make their Web […]
We have a professional Fire Department with Fire Inspectors that have been trained in the operation of alarms, who are going to be the ones responding to any emergency. Are these gentlemen and women not competent to inspect and test the system and work with the contractor that is doing the installation? Lets give them […]
Courtesy http://lookingatlancaster.blogspot.com/ Since you are reading this, you are already aware that the Internet offers the opportunity for individuals and groups to publish and widely distribute local news and commentary in ways that would have been impossible only a few years ago. LookingAtLancaster.com is only one out of a number of sites that offer alternatives […]
The $32,000 budgeted by the Convention Center for a third party to “inspect” the fire prevention and safety systems at the facility seems like an extreme waste of money. The Lancaster City Bureau of Fire, a “third party” with no vested interest in the CC project already staffs 4 Fire Inspection officers.These officers perform plans […]
In his weekly column, Editor Marv Adams asks “Where would [‘web’ aggregators] be without the newspapers that originate more than 90 percent of the news in this country?” WATCHDOG: For most parts of the country, in ten to twenty years the news will come from local web sites that are the successors to the print […]
In his Ides of March column “Specter should switch sides”, Gil Smart opines “Were [Senator Arlen Specter] to switch parties and run as a Democrat, he would likely destroy Toomey, or anyone else, in the general election. One suspects Specter would get more than a little satisfaction from that.” WATCHDOG: Specter switched from Democrat to […]
The front Page March 12th article pronounces “The Curse of TMI: No nuke plants built in U. S. since 1979 accident. Experts say that won’t change.” It goes on to say “For Jerry Taylor, a senior fellow at the CATO Institute, a well-regarded conservative Washington think-tank, it’s purely a matter of economics.” Taylor contends that […]