At the March 30 Lancaster City council meeting, NewsLanc asked Mayor Rick Gray exactly how much the City had to spend last week to keep up with the American Quilter’s Society show held at the Lancaster County Convention Center. Gray said that the City’s expenses, which will be reimbursed by the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention and Visitors Bureau, have not yet been brought to a final calculation…
Month: March 2010
Op-Ed: Hoteliers’ money used to ‘steal’ their business
By Ron Harper, Jr.: I saw Newslanc’s letter regarding the convention center STEALING the Host’s business. If the downtown Marriott and the Host were competing on the same footing, I would say: that’s capitalism! However, High’s Marriott doesn’t pay taxes, didn’t build any building (taxpayers did) and have lots of sweet-heart deals which gave them millions and millions of dollars…
County seeks new ways to protect the elderly
County commissioner Scott Martin noted on Tuesday that, all too often, when people talk about protecting the vulnerable, they are only referring to children—and rarely to those in their later years. But, with a special justice assistance grant from the Pennsylvania commission on crime and delinquency, the County hopes to push a new initiative to […]
Rasmussen: 54% Favor Repeal of Healthcare
From NEWSMAX: One week after the House passed the Democratic healthcare plan that President Obama subsequently signed into law, 54 percent of the nation’s likely voters still favor repealing the law. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 42 percent oppose repeal. Those figures are virtually unchanged from last week. They include 44 […]
New rules streamline student loans
From USA TODAY: For more than four decades, students have borrowed money from Uncle Sam to pay for college. That tradition continues this year, but with a twist: Starting July 1, all students who take out federal student loans will borrow directly from the federal government, instead of through a private lender. The change, included […]
US home prices remain under pressure
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: Home prices in the largest US cities fell in January, underscoring how fragile one of the economy’s most crucial sectors remains in spite of aggressive efforts to stimulate the market. Meanwhile, US consumers shrugged off fears about the housing market and unemployment in March as figures from the Conference Board showed […]
Wednesday LT public meeting to review latest fire house plan
Lancaster Township residents will have the opportunity on Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM to gather at the Maple Grove Community Center to review and discuss a revised plan, along with two others. Earlier plans to locate the fire house in Lancaster Community Park behind Planet Fitness had drawn neighborhood objections for consuming a large portion of the current playing fields, the private drive dividing the park in two, and for generating emergency traffic onto the residential Atkins Avenue…
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
An article “Pennsylvania Academy of Music interim director named” reports: “In the mid 1990s, Dr. Thomas F. Godfrey took over a failing health-care system in California. He restored its health, boosting its enrollment by 60 percent in three years. Now the savvy administrator will try to revive another ailing institution, the Pennsylvania Academy of Music. […]
Significance of Weak quilt show turnout for some area hotels
Letter: “Hotels that far out from the event? Really? As an attendee of many events, I’d rather stay home than have to stay miles and miles from where something is happening. Hotels that far from a large event in the center of the city really should not be counting on overflow.”…
Weak quilt show turnout for some area hotels
The American Quilt Society’s annual show came to the Lancaster County Convention Center for the first time last week, bringing up to 10,000 more attendees than a quilt show previously held at the Lancaster Host—which would typically draw around 10,000 guests. But not all Lancaster hoteliers were feeling those gains last week…
Crescent Rail Corridor would get traffic / economy moving again
By Govs. Bob Riley, Haley Barbour, Ed Rendell, Phil Bredesen and Bob McDonnell From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Op-Ed: …Interstates connecting the South and Northeast are choked with traffic. As much as 40 percent of the traffic on Interstate 81 in Virginia is made up of trucks on a highway designed to carry no more than […]
US to sell its 27% stake in Citi bank for big profit
From the FINANCIAL TIMES: The US Treasury said on Monday that it would sell its 7.7bn of Citigroup shares, in a move that would allow it to pull back its support of the bank… Citi has so far repaid $20bn in bail-out funds and paid $3bn in dividends to the government and $5.3bn in premiums on […]
Observations re quilter show
I do know that many waited far more than 15 minutes and some closer to one hour for a shuttle. The woman who referenced the lack of rain made a good point and it is important to note that in 2011 and 2012, the AQS show will be a week earlier in March. This will […]
LGH ignoring the real issues
Your response to [LGH president Tom] Beeman’s letter is outstanding. Beeman apparently never bothered to read any of your previous articles, as it seemed he thought he was going to be able to finesse his way around you and the real issues. I’m sure his head is spinning and I’d bet LGH’s PR machine is working […]