Are you aware of this situation? MAW is a fraud and the city is out $4.7 million!!! LNP will not report on it becuase somehow they are also connected (received money from MAW): http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/official-it-s-not-risky-for-city-to-put-up/article_a9e76b6a-0456-11e7-9f07-2b86355a4f2e.html They’re all here together in this video: http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/watch-congressman-smucker-meets-with-lnp-editorial-board/article_4f40a3ee-86b4-11e7-a93a-47cfbde0d028.html
REF Speaks: Turning Around Downtown Lancaster
A reader recently forwarded “Turning Around Downtown; Twelve Steps to Revitalization” by Christopoher B. Leinberger. https://www.brookings.edu/research/turning-around-downtown-twelve-steps-to-revitalization/ This is indeed a very informative article, albeit a dozen years old. If it were to be written today, I think there would be some modifications but the overall thrust would remain. One thing that is not taken into consideration is […]
Jeff Sessions Expected to Rescind Obama-Era “Cole Memo” That Allowed States to Implement Marijuana Laws Without Federal Interference
DPA Statement: This is Bad News For Civil and Human Rights – and Bad Politics for Team Trump DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: The AP reported this morning that US Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans today to rescind Obama-era guidance by the Department of Justice allowing states to implement their own marijuana laws with limited federal […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Top Ten US Drug Policy Stories of 2017
by psmith, DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Tens of thousands die of drug overdoses, hundreds of thousands get arrested for drugs, yet marijuana is seeing boom times. As we bid adieu to 2017, here are the year’s drug policy highlights: Drug overdoses killed record numbers […]
Tsukerman: What crime did the Siberian Boy from Novy Urengoi commit?
By Slava Tsukerman A heated, somewhat scandalous debate has been going on for several weeks in Russian media. Almost all well known politicians, members of the Russian parliament, and even president Putin himself are participating in the debate. The subject is a two-and-a-half minute speech of a 16-year-old boy from a small city of Novy […]
REF Speaks: Is President Trump largely correct on immigration policy?
As a youngster growing up in the 40’s and 50’s, I became aware of the plight of much of the world’s population that lived under conditions of poverty and disease. Their misery was much discussed and the result was foreign aid through worldwide institutions or directly through USA sponsored programs. It was hardly enough but […]
Hungary, like Poland, emulates Putin’s Russia
From one of Newslanc’s sister web sites: Photo: Facebook/@Juhi.JuhaszPeter ” . . . this is the kind of thing that happens in Putin’s Russia, except we are in Hungary.” – Péter Juhász, chairman, Együtt In an emotional appeal made via a live video stream from his smartphone this morning, Együtt (Together) chairman Péter Juhász […]
How Bigoted Pennsylvania Drug Warriors Turned This New York Man’s Life into a Living Hell
by psmith DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: In June, 2014, Wilfredo Ramos was driving back to his Brooklyn home after visiting his mother in Lancaster, Pennsylvania when two Pennsylvania State Police troopers detoured him into a Kafkaesque nightmare from which he emerged only five months later. The traffic stop from hell happened to Wilfredo Ramos — […]
Some seek to cast suspicion on Jews for “ritual killing” the last Russian Tsar
by Slava Tsukerman On November 27 a conference dedicated to “new expertise and evidence” on the last Russian tsar’s Nicholas II murder took place in the Sretensky Monastery in Moscow. Patriarch Kirill led a delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church at the conference. At the conference Bishop Tikhon Shevkunov, widely seen as Putin’s personal confessor, […]
Documents Finally Released
The photo is of eight inches of documents finally made available to NewsLanc as a result of our ‘Request for Public Information’ filing over half a year ago that was stone walled by the City of Lancaster, later ordered to be delivered by the State but yet withheld, and finally made available through negotiation among […]
Donald Trump gets a 25% reduction in income taxes
According to today’s New York Times article “Business tax bill offers last minute breaks for developers, banks and oil industry”: “Lower Taxes for Top 1 Percent” “One of the bill’s biggest windfalls for the wealthy — cutting taxes on income received through so-called pass-through entities like partnerships, popular with real estate developers — got even […]
Breakfast with candidate Dick Thornburg and his wife Ginny
Arlen Specter has once again lost an election, this one the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race of 1978. It had been my introduction to politics and had played a significant but not paramount role as I would two years later in Specter’s senatorial campaign. About two months after later, I was contacted by one of candidate […]
REF Speaks: Looking back at USA military disasters
I am deep into “The American Empire, 1945 – 2000” by Joshua B. Freeman, having read the third and now reading the fourth of a series of USA history, this one by Joshua ‘B. Freeman. This is part of the Forner / Penguin series. The book is edifying but rather neutered until Freeman reaches the […]
Drug-Induced Homicide Charges Draconian and Ineffective, Study Finds
by psmith, DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: A new report from the Drug Policy Alliance shines a harsh spotlight on a strategy that some police, prosecutors, and elected officials are embracing in response to the opioid overdose crisis — charging sellers with drug-induced homicide — which the evidence suggests is intensifying, rather than helping, the problem. James […]