A cartoon showing the Pennsylvania Academy of Music shooting himself in its foot is captioned “PAM prepares law suit against donors for reneging on pledges.” Below a crow says “They seem unwilling to face the music.”
WATCHDOG: Who is “they?”
The people who undertook legal obligations and now are reneging? PAM is under bankruptcy court supervision and has the obligation to collect funds due it.
Or perhaps it is the Intell shooting itself in the foot. Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. is the partner in the greatest boondoggle in Lancaster history, a Convention Center Project which ballooned from a budget of around $50 million to $174 million.
If the Intell wants to pick on an organization (after all the PAM litigation is old news at this point), why doesn’t it pay heed to the outrageous conduct of Lancaster General Hospital in its mendacity, lack of transparency, monopolist practices, and stingy and secretive use of an average of a $100 million in annual untaxed profits it derives from the Lancaster public through high health insurance rates.
Wow, that cartoon seems to have hit a nerve.
I think most readers probably understand the “they” to be PAM’s leaders.
I don’t know, but I suspect the bankruptcy court is not ordering PAM to sue its donors, but maybe just to do its best to collect old pledges.
Right now, the place seems damaged beyond saving, even if they manage to get a little more cash to keep limping along.
I agree with the commenter above. They = PAM’s leaders, board.