The following is excerpted from “Washington Rules, America’s Path to Permanent War” by Andrew J. Bacevich:
“For some comparative perspective, consider this possibility: In light of his country’s status as a rising power, China’s minister of defense announces plans to…
FORWARD: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proposed to the U.S. administration on Thursday that he hold a face-to-face meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas every two weeks to try to forge covert understandings and set principles to solve every issue. After the principles are determined, small negotiation teams would hammer out the details and put the […]
AOL HEALTH: She’s a contradiction in heels: fearless one day, weepy another and keenly intuitive every day in between. Dr. Louanne Brizendine, author of “The Female Brain” and founder of The Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic in San Francisco, says that a woman’s unique hardwiring and hormonal makeup can turn her into a different creature […]
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Legislators in Harrisburg should resist the efforts of natural-gas companies to obtain a sweetheart deal of tax loopholes and lax drilling regulations. The legislature has agreed to enact an extraction tax on methane wells by Oct. 1. Pennsylvania is the largest gas-producing state without such a tax to help pay for environmental […]
MORNING CALL: Gamblers lost $17.5 million in July at Pennsylvania’s newly-open gaming tables, but Sands and Mount Airy were among the early winners among casinos statewide… Experts say at least some of that promising showing can be attributed to out-of-state gamblers. Mount Airy runs dozens of buses each day from New York and New Jersey, and […]
The morning of September 8th looms large for those anxiously awaiting the fate of the public libraries throughout the county. The Library Task Force will submit its official Report at the 9:15 AM regular meeting of the County Commissioners that takes place each week at their offices at 150 North Queen Street. Copies of the […]
Philip H. Howard, Michigan State University: Three firms control 89% of US soft drink sales [1]. This dominance is obscured from us by the appearance of numerous choices on retailer shelves. Steve Hannaford refers to this as “pseudovariety,” or the illusion of diversity, concealing a lack of real choice [2]. To visualize the extent of […]
It had been a rainy summer in Colorado. No surprise to find mushrooms as we hiked the Andrews Glacier trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. But these mushrooms! Three inches across, deep crimson with white splotches, glowing in the mountain sunlight! Amanita muscaria, the original deadly toadstool, the mushroom of fairytales, Alice in Wonderland’s mushroom. […]
Well done!!!!! Penn Square Partners and Lancaster Newspapers can do much to restore the good names of two public servants. An admission of ‘guilt’ and a public apology would go far in bringing some closure to the public’s discontent regarding the hotel and convention center. While I have serious reservations about the future viability and […]
Readers on Saturday, August, encountered a cornucopia of worldwide, national, state and local news, on a level of any newspaper in the country. The front page was devoted to local coverage of “PAM sues donors”, “Big water rate hike proposed”, Sarah “Palin speech is a hit in Hershey” and “County families still working in Gulf […]
While the Watchdog was passing our newsletter (which he does a couple of hours a week), a long time employee of Conestoga View stop by and told what a tremendous improvement the new ownership was over the county. He described the investments being made to expand and update the common areas and the guest rooms. […]
In assessing their rescue efforts on behalf of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music (PAM), few will accuse Chairman Dr. Holmes Morton, Executive Director Dr. Tom Godfrey, and attorney Jacque Geisenberger, Jr. as pandering or even seeking to be ‘nice’ as is expected by members of the Lancaster ‘Establishment’ in dealing with their peers. Nor are they particularly adept in their public outreach, at least not at the outset.
Even to NewsLanc which recently has written “Careful for what you wish when it comes to controlling immigration” and reprinted “The US needs those babies born to illegal moms” , the report by the National Center for Health Statistics that USA birthrate has dropped to 1.35 per family is startling. It takes 2.1 children to […]
“Lastly, let us resolve to do better in the future”
No. I do not agree. Before we come to this last item of a resolution for the future, before we can move on, the damage done to the reputations and leadership positions of two very good and honest people needs to be restored. If we do not, we teach a horrible lesson to any future office holder which is to forget the public interest, forget your fiduciary responsibility, forget your personal integrity, when very powerful private interests oppose you.