NewsLanc looks back at a decade of service

1. Exposed the self-serving and mendacious dealings surrounding the ramming of the ‘white elephant’ Convention Center down the throats of the unwilling Lancaster public.
2. Gave the lie to Rick Gray administration’s foolish street car claims and criticized its abject failure to redevelop Lancaster Square East.
3. Challenged the elitist all white board of Lancaster General Hospital, its squandering of the public’s money on unwarranted payments to its absent president, its huge profits earned at the cost of local health insurance rates, and its stinginess in fulfilling its avowed mission as a public charity to support health efforts by other organizations.
4. Sparked the re-design of the proposed parking for the Amtrak station so as to provide more and convenient parking spaces for riders.
5. Shed light on the Franklin and Marshall College’s bully tactics in community affairs and the brutal, unprovoked assault by campus police on innocent, not resisting bystander Ron Harper, all in view of its former president.
6. Warned against the current proliferation of shopping centers that is bound to undermine the viability of the Park City Mall, thus
7. Placed part of the blame for the failure of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music (PAM) on the incompetent leadership of its chairman for whom the facility, when bailed out by Millersville University, ironically was named.
8. Immediately upon the event, condemned Gov. Tom Corbett’s firing of Joe Paterno’s on the coach’s death bed as an effort to misdirect attention from former attorney general Corbett’s “slow walk” prosecution of pedophile Jerry Sandusky.
9. Was among the first (along with Mike Bull of the Intelligencer Journal New Era) to condemn the NCAA’s penalties of Penn State as a flagrant violation of NCAA’s constitution and by-laws. The Sandusky issue is, at most, about the Penn State administration, not the football team or its past, current, or future players.
10. Questioned the sense of the Lancaster County Solid Waste Management Authority acquiring the long troubled Harrisburg incinerator at twice its estimated value and without expert environmental and financial feasibility studies.
11. Praised the long time efforts of the Steinman family media in educating the public concerning the value of harm reduction health measure in dealing with drug addiction.
12. Privately counseled governmental, business and community leaders.

NewsLanc’s website and newsletter at times exceeded five thousand viewers a week.

We thank you for the honor of having been of service. We hope that others will follow.

Robert E. Field, Editor and Publisher