Group to Hold 4th Protest This Summer Against Unaccountable, Warrantless Surveillance August 29th, 2009 in Downtown Lancaster, PA Lancaster Pa, August 24, 2009—The Citizens Against Public Surveillance (CAPS) is holding a large protest against the implementation of surveillance cameras deployed in Lancaster, PA, and is inviting all who want a voice in this matter to […]
Month: August 2009
Mayor issues camera memo to City Council
At the close of an unusually brief City Council Meeting (August 25), Mayor Rick Gray formally presented the Council with an official memorandum, “Re: VIDEO SURVEILLANCE CAMERA PROGRAM.” The text of the memo was identical to the Mayor’s public statement regarding the cameras, released August 16…
Fought hard for “rights of a father”
Editor’s note: With half of today’s couples choosing not to formalize the relationship through marriage, how to provide the best possible parenting for their children becomes an important issue…whether we like the changing times or not. I wanted to respond to the comment left about my situation. Please know that my case was not a normal situation and it really did matter that I was the Plantiff.
Agriculture preservation stalled by budget impasse
At the August 25 County Commissioners Work Session, Agricultural Preserve Board Director Matt Knepper requested that the Commissioners approve the purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements for two farms within the county. The purchases, $149,881 and $218,464 respectively, will be supported by State funding. Although the contracts are likely to be approved by the Commissioners at their Wednesday meeting, payment to the farmers could be delayed if a budget is not passed by the time that these recommendations come under State review in October, Knepper said…
Twenty years to get the word out to save lives!
Even when research in Cuba determined that Yellow Fever was spread by mosquitoes, it took 20 years for the information to be put to use in the construction of the Panama Canal. Some believe the “ditch” could not have otherwise been completed. The Intelligencer New Era carried a page A7 story from the New York Times headed “U. S. weighs circumcision to fight HIV risk.”…
NEW ERA
The editorial “City trolley study gets us nowhere”, the New Era observes the following: “Financially, the project is a money loser from the get-go….taxpayers dollars—would be needed to pay for the ‘bulk’ of the $14.1 million project…The same study estimated annual operating and administrative costs to be $685,000—less than half of which would be covered […]
COMMENTARY: Plan calls for access road across Community Park
NewsLanc has received the following information and reprimand from a former fire chief of the Lancaster Township Fire Department: “In response to your editor’s note in the above comment: Re-read the proposal. It calls for creating an access road from Millersville Pike to Atkins Avenue that will allow emergency vehicles to transit to Millersville Pike without ever having to enter your apartment complex. You are starting to read way too much like LNP by cheerleading your own special interests. Talk about objectivity, or caring about what is best for the community as a whole.”
Compass Mark contends for treatment over incarceration
Dave Bender, Executive Director of Compass Mark, is optimistic about the potential for addiction treatment services to improve quality of life in Lancaster County. According to Bender, “a stronger society” can be built by working to inform and empower individuals in their personal choices regarding addiction, rather than merely imposing prohibitive laws…
NEW YORK TIMES
A book review by Sir Harold Evans, former editor of The London Times, of “Losing The News; The Future of the News That Feeds Democracy” describes the views of author Alex Jones as follows: “The most valuable element in journalism is often enough not an episode that occurred today, yesterday or, horrors, the day before. […]
Déjà vu Mayor Rick Gray
On August 22, the Baltimore Sun headlined: “Convention hotel’s per-room revenue disappoints. Startup expenses, economy, partial year of operation bring $17.1 million loss.” It is the same old same old, whether it is a major city or a smaller city as Lancaster. All this is doing is continuing to show how STUPID our State and Federal elected politicians are…
SUNDAY NEWS
In his column “Help society help yourself”, Gil Smart quotes his friend as saying “How about if I take responsibility for one person, or one family? Why do I have to be responsible for everyone? Why is it my obligation to make sure everyone has health insurance?” WATCHDOG: Why the army, the police force, the […]
District 9
District 9 takes the issue of South African apartheid and recasts it in the context of science fiction. The idea is clever, the direction balletic, and the production design striking in its grit and gloom. But something is missing at the movie’s core, and no amount of technical achievement compensates…
When busy, where will guests park?
A club I belong to is having their Dinner Meeting at the Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square. I am not going to attend but you have to read the instruction on the parking: “Enter the parking garage via Duke Street entrance. You may park in the Marriott spaces marked ‘Reserved parking for Overnight Guests Only’. […]
NEW ERA
An editorial “Michael Vick’s return to the NFL” states: “Vick, of course, deserves a second chance. He has served his time for his offense (which was not only bankrolling a dog ring but participating in the killing of under performing dogs). …Vick doesn’t need a second chance so much as forgiveness—for letting down his family […]