By Slava Tsukerman On September 12, 2017, two biggest Russian movie theater chains informed audience that they are breaking their contracts and not going to release the new feature film “Matilda”, partly produced on state money and approved by the Russian government. The chains made their decision out of fear of Russian Orthodox […]
Manhattan District Attorney Announces New Policy to Reduce Impact of Marijuana Possession Arrests, Citing Collateral Consequences
DA Calls on State Legislature to Act on Marijuana Reform DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: Today, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. announced a shift in his office’s policy for New Yorkers arrested for low level marijuana possession.This policy change was created in an effort to reduce the number of New Yorkers, mostly young people of color, […]
Russian Public opinion nationalistic and pro Putin
By Slava Tsukerman Today Russia is extremely divided. A small percentage of democratically oriented intellectuals are violently opposed by the majority, aggressively supporting Putin’s policy. Here is a screenshot of a post from the Facebook. This post is obviously written by an ignorant and naïve extremist. But today this post is also extremely typical. That’s […]
IN MEMORY OF: Richard Miller (5/22/42 – 8/25/17)
On August 25th, 2017 at 10:15AM, Richard passed away with his immediate family at his side. This will be the last update to the WeConnectDots Blog. Many knew him as Richard, friends called him Dick, and those who were lucky, called him Dad and Papa. The above was an e-mail message with a link to […]
Reducing the Harms from Drug Use in Lancaster County
A sister organization to NewsLanc sponsors syringe exchanges in four Central Pennsylvania cities. Below is the July report for Lancaster. Melinda Zipp is the Director. For years Lancaster Harm Reduction Project has prevented the spread of disease, helped place addicts in treatment, and encouraged the use of Narcan that has led to the savings of […]
TSUKERMAN: Will Russia Return to Monarchy?
By Slava Tsukerman This poster, picked up from Russian Internet, calls for “Putin for Tzar”. Is it just a kind of a joke? There are a lot of similar images in Russian Internet. This week this question became one of the most discussed in the Russian media. Writers and journalists had been giving Putin the […]
City appeals state ruling to provide information to NewsLanc re $9 million CRIZ award
On July 26, Office of Open Records Appeals Officer Kathleen A. Higgins, Esq. determined that the City of Lancaster should turn over information pertaining to Lancaster’s controversial City Revitalization and Improvement Zone. Penn Square Partners has asked for a $9 million CRIZ contribution (not repayable) towards the expansion of the Lancaster Marriott Hotel. The money […]
It took PennDOT to do something right for the city and region
The LNP article “PennDOT buys land to add Lancaster Amtrak parking, but timetable undetermined” is indeed very good news because the painful shortage of parking at the Amtrak station has discouraged use of train service and thus thwarted downtown and regional development It would have been even worse had not a decade ago, upon seeing the original plan to upgrade the station, […]
INTERESTING: “Sacramento County, is making plans to implement the California Choice Act”
CALIFORNIA VOTERS FOUNDATION: This past June, the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors voted to implement the Voters Choice Act, giving Sacramento County Registrar of Voters Jill LaVine and her staff the green light to move forward on a new plan for voting county-wide. The Voters Choice Act, or VCA, was enacted in 2016 as Senate […]
ROBERT SPEAKS: Generation Theft vs Traditional Philanthropy
By Robert Field, Publisher I encountered the term “Generation theft” a couple of weeks ago and recognized how accurately this describes what the current business establishment has been inflicted upon future tax payers for their greedy purposes. It would be one thing if the CRIZ program were to lend them funds for needed […]
TSUKERMAN: Russian Public terrified over repercussions of American Senate act
By Slava Tsukerman The Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, the legislation to sanction Iran, Russia and North Korea, passed the House 419-3 on July 25, passed the US Senate 98-2 on July 27, and finally on August 2, President Donald Trump signed it into law. This event triggered a hysterical reaction in Russia. The most typical is the title of […]
State budget a bugger, again
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: This is the beginning of the sixth week our state government lacks a constitutionally-mandated operating budget. It’s also “shark week,” at least on the science-fiction cable channel. What do they have in common? Both are “gloriously idiotic” and “absolutely pointless.” With the largest and most expensive legislature in the nation, Pennsylvania […]
PA Drug Overdose Deaths more than double national average
DEA & PARTNERS RELEASE 2016 PENNSYLVANIA DRUG OVERDOSE DEATH REPORT Gary Tuggle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced the release of its Analysis of Overdose Deaths in Pennsylvania, 2016 report at a news conference earlier today. Key findings from the report indicate that in 2016, 4,642 […]
MILLER: Harrisburg or Washington — farce is same
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: Pennsylvania residents, taxpayers, and constituents. Condolences to almost all of you. (A distinctive, conservative minority may like what is going on, even if they don’t understand it.) Harrisburg or Washington, Republican or Democrat, the disingenuous label applies. How we are getting shortchanged in Washington is more obvious than at our state […]