Are we going to blame Obama for starting the virus? He is blamed everyday thru editorials, e-mails etc for every single thing that is wrong with this country. He has been in office less than a year and has been criticized for every single thing he has tried to do. Wake up people. He is […]
Month: November 2009
Library System puts High deal on hold
A few eyebrows have been recently raised regarding certain actions of the Lancaster County Library System, led by Administrator Susan Hauer. The newly formed Public Libraries Task Force, at its meeting last week, had to take the System ‘to task’ for having negotiated a lease extension without consulting the County Commissioners’ initiated research panel.
Reform should not require struggling workers to buy insurance
We did a press conference yesterday on health care. The focus was single payer health care system vs.the Democratic/Obama bills. C-SPAN taped it and played it at least four times yesterday. The thrust of our press conference yesterday was we need to start from scratch and defeat this bill. I am particularly disturbed by the […]
The Water Street Mission’s “turkey miracle”
As of Monday afternoon, NewsLanc was faced with a down-beat story for the Thanksgiving holiday. Maria Schaszberger, Director of Communications for Water Street Ministries, had reported that the Mission was coming up critically short in turkey donations received for its Thanksgiving dinners and food box program. With about 1,100 needed, the Mission had only received 300 turkeys, according to a count from last week.
NEWSMAX.COM / AP
“In a hopeful sign, the number of newly laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell below 500,000 last week for the first time since January. “Consumer spending also picked up in October, and new-home sales hit their highest point in more than a year. Together, the reports suggested that the economy should manage to […]
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
An article headed “Groups hatch $15 million plan to revive 2nd block of South Queen Street” opens “More than a year ago, Lancaster Alliance President Jack Howell identified the 100 block of South Queen Street as a neighborhood teetering on the edge.”
No county tax increase second year in a row
In introducing the proposed County Budget for 2010 at Wednesday Commissioners Meeting, Charles Douts, Jr., County Administrator, observed: 1. Budget is “balanced and does not include any tax increase.” 2. Benefited from 1% growth in real estate assessments over the year and a resulting $5 million in increased revenue.
Need to seek more aid from state
It is long past time for State Sen. Lloyd Smucker and State Rep. Mike Sturla to step up to the plate and go to bat for Lancaster City. Sen. Smucker’s predecessor Gib Armstrong, working with Rep. Sturla, put out an incredible amount of effort to provide more and more State funding for the downtown hotel […]
Turkey versus mud cakes
The Gil Smart column excerpt was on the beautiful idea of “Freedom from Want”, one of the four freedoms enunciated by FDR and celebrated in the famous Thanksgiving Day family dinner painting of Norman Rockwell. Is there anyone, conservative or Liberal who openly disagrees with the vision of a world that is free from, at […]
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
An editorial “Oyster-bed politics” points out “For 1,000 women screened [for mammogram], 4 will be found to have a breast cancer and one will have it but it won’t be detected. Another 90 women will get false positive results that can send them rushing to expensive treatments and surgeries. Women in their 40s have an […]
NEWSMAX.COM / REUTERS
An article headed “Wash. Post closes Bureaus Across U. S.”quotes the newspaper’s top editor, Marcus Brauchli in a memo to employees, as stating: “At a time of limited resources and increased competitive pressure, it’s necessary to concentrate our journalistic firepower on our central mission of covering Washington and the news, trends and ideas that shape […]
City millage rate up 25% in 2010; Morales clarifies on City funds for Coalition
At the November 24 meeting of Lancaster City Council, Mayor Rick Gray presented details from the proposed 2010 budget, which itself will be publicly posted on the City’s website the following morning. Gray assumed a somber demeanor as he explained and defended a proposed property tax hike from 9.64 to 12.04 mils…
Commissioners to consider reducing salaries
According to the agenda for their November 25 public meeting, the Lancaster County Commissioners will announce that they will discuss reductions to the previously fixed 2010 salaries for county managers. The compensations to be reviewed are those of the County Controller, Recorder of Deeds, Jury Commissioners, County Commissioners, Sheriff, Register of Wills, Prothonotary, Clerk of […]
Just wait ‘til they get their heating bill!
Picture an open space a block long and half a block wide, an average of three stories high. Then double the area if the doors are left open to the adjoining exhibit space. That is the common area that the architects designed for the Lancaster Convention Center and Marriott Hotel. Even though functions will only take place less than a third of the days in the Convention Center, the heating and air conditioning requirements will remain the approximately same, 365 days, 24 hours since the area is integral with the Marriott lobby.