In Lancaster City, you don’t need to break the bank to enjoy a meal of fresh and exotic flavors. Just east of the corner of King and Duke, La Cocina sits in a quaint storefront on 111 E King St, just across from Demuth’s Tobacco Shop. The restaurant serves an extensive and inexpensive array of Dominican foods in a colorful and classy setting.
Month: May 2009
Penn Square planters: ‘Better late than never’
CC Construction budget -$423,106 (and some good news)
At the Thursday, May 28, Lancaster County Convention Center Authority (LCCCA) Board Meeting it was announced that, largely due to recent setbacks, the current construction budget has fallen to a negative $423,106. As explained by Laura Douglas, Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee, the nearly half-million-dollar budget overrun is the result of recent change orders.
Federal grand jury investigates murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna
More than five years after his violent death, a federal grand jury is at last investigating the murder of Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Luna, according to a letter from the Lancaster County PA district attorney’s office.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
The May 28th front page, three column wide photo of a dejected youngster appears under the heading “Speller falls short; Early error costs Stevens girl at bee.” WATCHDOG: Is it poor taste on the part of the editors to portray (shame?) a young contestant in such a manner? A fourteen year old isn’t an adult […]
USATODAY
A May 27 article headed “Study finds half of men arrested test positive for drugs” reports: Not only do the findings show “a clear link between drugs and crime,” they also highlight the need to provide drug treatment, says Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, which will make […]
Commissioners urge for “responsible” State budget
At the Wednesday, May 27, County Commissioners’ Meeting, the Commissioners passed a resolution to urge the Pennsylvania General Assembly to adopt a reasonable and “responsible” budget for 2009-2010. As stated in the resolution itself, the Commissioners’ primary concern is the shifting of “costs onto the local level.” In other words, the adoption of an overly stringent State budget would merely “pass the buck” down into local government budgets.
INTELL – ASSOCIATED PRESS
According to a May 26 article headed “N. Y. Times dropped tip on Watergate”, a reporter had lunch with acting FBI director L. Patrick Gray on Aug. 16, 1972 and was told point blank that former attorney general John Mitchell was implicated into the recent break in at the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic Party and was […]
EDITORIAL: The manipulating of public opinion
The May 24th article by LookingAtLancaster.com titled “Projects concealed from taxpayers until too late” touches upon the root cause of so much that has and is yet going wrong in Lancaster. It groups the current “streetscape” improvement program, the proposed streetcars, and the convention center project as “Significant but unnecessary projects costing huge sums of taxpayer dollars have been constructed without any meaningful input from the people who must pay the bills, and will forever live with the consequences.”
No comparison
“To say that it gives KFC a run for its money would be a serious understatement.” The above statement is oddly out of place in this review. How in the world does a soul food restaurant end up being compared to a KFC at all? Fast food fried chicken versus home cooked, lovingly prepared meals? […]
Re “The Dream Team: Penn Square Partners”
Note that the Lancaster Alliance is an offshoot of the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry. In an interesting twist, the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry strongly supported HACC’s proposed use of the Watt & Shand building.
Freedom to speak, yes; Freedom to peddle, no
In a May 24th Letter to the Editor of the Sunday News headed “Ballpark ambush”, Joy Schwanger writes: “At the front gates people approach you, stating that if you give them your name and phone number you will be entered to win a free car. What they don’t tell you is you give them your information, it will be sold to a company called Sundance Vacations, which will relentlessly call you trying to ‘give’ you free vacations.”
The $177.4 million is all public money
I have a request – please stop saying the convention center [project] cost taxpayers $140 million. It’s $177.4 million in tax dollars. Taxpayers own the entire project and are on the hook for the entire amount. The newspaper and High have not paid a red cent [towards the real estate.] To give them credit for […]
Projects concealed from taxpayers until too late
For the past decade, Lancaster has seen more dramatic changes than at any time since the disastrous “Urban Renewal” projects of the 1960s and 1970s. Like “Urban Renewal”, these changes will have a lasting impact on Lancaster for decades to come. Also like “Urban Renewal”, these projects were implemented without any meaningful input from the taxpayers and voters whose money is being spent to create these changes.