There are no volunteers monitoring cameras at the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition. They are all paid employees. Those monitoring cameras are paid $10 an hour. Joe Morales, executive director of the LCSC, is paid an annual salary of $85,000. The surveillance camera system in Lancaster is expensive. There are maintenance and replacement costs. Cameras attached […]
Month: November 2009
Opposition to fire station in park not “luke warm”
Lancaster Township is planning to build a fire station on part of the Community Park located in my neighborhood, between Atkins Ave. and Millersville Pike. I went to a township meeting last week and saw a map display, produced by the township, showing two proposed subdivision scenarios that would give them a parcel on which […]
A crisis of will
[In response to “SUNDAY NEWS”] I did not read the Gil Smart’s but the excerpt you reprinted I sadly must agree with. Our cultural condition right now is more one of fear than of confidence, and a people who are afraid for themselves turn inward to a survival mentality that sees others as competitors for […]
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
Jeff Hawkes’ column “Time for a prison-policy rethink” concludes with the following: “The good news is that there are alternatives for drug users that work better than locking them up. “[‘Corrections Superintendent Jeffrey] Beard favors reserving incarceration for the worst of the worse and expanding treatment for the large numbers of less serious offenders whose criminal activity is fueled by substance abuse or mental illness.’
Interest rate swaps
[In response to the Intell New Era’s “Denlinger: Ban interest-rate ‘swaps’”] Three years toooooo late, guys. [Editor’s note: The financing of the convention center was made possible by using a type of interest rate “swap”. Conventional financing would not have provided enough funding to proceed with construction.]
Comparison of healthcare systems in different parts of the world
COMPARISON OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD
NEW ERA
An editorial “Breast guidelines and health politics” highlights (1) “The bottom line in deciding what to do should be this: Women’s lives should not be placed at risk.” It states (2) “If insurance companies decide they can save money by adopting the new guidelines, detection testing for breast cancer will change.” (3) “Women in their 40s […]
F & M’s neighborhood surveillance cameras exempt from rules?
There have been questions and concerns recently about the employees who watch the monitors at the LCSC. At least the names and backgrounds of those employees are available to the public. That is not true of the employees (who may be students) who are watching the monitors in the offices of F&M Safety and Security. […]
SUNDAY NEWS
Gil Smart in his column “Freedom from want” observes: “Do we still have freedom from want? Two decades ago a rising tide of hunger in this country would have been treated like the crisis it is. Instead, we greet it with a collective shrug, if not outright hostility. They have cell phones! They’re not working […]
AP / NEWSMAX
“NYC Has Lost Nearly 60,000 Jobs in Media” WATCHDOG: A sign of the times and a threat to democracy as the Fifth Estate continues to erode as advertising dollars flow to the Internet.
Home sales not yet an omen of better times
The Intelligencer Journal New Era article “Home sales building here” indicates a small upbeat as compared to the lows established this time last year. However, this should not be interpreted necessarily as a sign of economic recovery.
Sales have been stimulated through a massive government subsidy program for first time home buyers. Also, foreclosed houses have worked their way through the legal labyrinth and now are being offered at bargain prices.
SUNDAY NEWS
“You can check out e-mails before you decide to pass them along. Use Google to track down information, or you can search Web sites like snopes.com, truthorfiction.com or factcheck.org. They list sources for information and how rumors got started.” WATCHDOG: Good advice from Editor Marv Adams concerning fallacious or misleading articles passed along on the […]
SUNDAY NEWS
Concerning the monitoring of surveillance cameras in Reading, an article states: “The hearing examiner for the Labor Relations Board, Jack E. Marino, ruled that, ‘The use of cameras to look at activities on City streets is a form of surveillance and patrol historically performed by police officers.’ The camera technology, Marino wrote, ‘has simply enhanced […]
Vendor had bad convention center experience
My wife and I attended a Christmas Craft show at Newark Delaware today (11/21). One of the venders was also at the Craft Show at the LCCC in recent weeks; and when I asked about his experience, he replied, “It was terrible”!! Parking for vendors was unavailable, other than paying $56 for both his truck […]