Editor: We encourage going directly to the op-ed since this profound and insightful analysis of how Russian President Vladimir Putin has sowed confusion to undermin our democratic institutions keep us from giving proper attention to Russian acts of aggression. NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED: Russians are fond of a proverb, “besplatniy sir biyvaet tol’ko v mishelovke”: […]
Chronicle Interview: A Conversation With New DPA Head Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno
by psmith, July 24, 2017, 02:41am, (Issue #983) Led by Ethan Nadelmann since its formation 17 years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) has been the most influential drug reform organization in the country, with a hand in advancing the causes not only of medical marijuana and marijuana legalization, but of drug law reform more […]
Is LNP waking up to imminent danger to Park City Mall?
By Robert Field It doesn’t surprise us that the Lancaster City government under Mayor Rick Gray and Director of Economic Development & Neighborhood Revitalization Randy Patterson have studiously ignored the impending threat to the city’s largest tax payer, the Park City Mall. It does give us a glimmer of hope when LNP, the […]
State rules City must turn over requested records to NewsLanc re Marriott / CRIZ / RACL
The following is the ruling by the Office of Open Records of the State of Pennsylvania requiring the City to provide NewsLanc with copies of all the requested documents pertaining to the CRIZ grant, RACL, and communications with Penn Square Partners pertaining to the expansion of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Lancaster.. CONCLUSION For the […]
Hard for Russian government to ignore this sensational report on corruption
By Slava Tsukerman Lately in Russia a number of publications are discussing corruption by Russian governmental elite. There were 24 million views of a film about real estate properties of prime minister Dmitry Medvedev, produced by Alexei Navalny’s Anti Corruption Foundation. It triggered rallies all over Russia. For the first time in modern Russian history […]
New Jersey Marijuana Medical Review Panel Recommends Adding Chronic Pain, Migraine, Anxiety and Tourette’s Syndrome to List of Qualifying Conditions
Drug Policy Alliance: Today, the New Jersey Medicinal Marijuana Program Review Panel made initial recommendations to the Health Commissioner to approve chronic pain, migraine, anxiety and Tourette’s Syndrome as qualifying conditions for the medical marijuana program. “We are glad to see that the panel took the testimony of experts and the petitions of New […]
MILLER: Manderino rewarded for incompetence
WE.CONNECT.DOTS: One reason we have lost all faith in our government is that our officials refuse to be accountable. Gov. Tom Wolf announced this week he is accepting the resignation of Kathy Manderino as Secretary of Labor and Industry (L and I). Manderino is quitting so Wolf can appoint her to the PA Gaming […]
KEISLING: Marriott expansion puts “cart before the horse.”
EDITOR: As part of preparing a book on statewide corruption in Pennsylvania, Bill Keisling is acquainting himself with how the Lancaster Convention Center came to be. Keisling has given his permission to publish the below note to NewsLanc’s editor as an article since, if he went into such detail for each item in his book, […]
Jeff Sessions Wants More Asset Forfeiture — Especially in Drug Cases
by Psmith DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Monday that the Dept. of Justice will seek to increase the use of asset forfeiture by state and local police forces. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions makes another drug warrior move. (senate.gov) Asset forfeiture is a practice in which police seize cash and property. […]
LETTER: Lancaster taxpayers get stuck with cost
What?! Taxpayers get stuck with the cost of maintaining and Z gets exclusive use?
TSUKERMAN: “Prisoners’ Way of Life”: A new Russian youth subculture
By Slava Tsukerman Several years ago a new youth subculture appeared in Russia. In a few years it spread almost all over the country, massively introduced into schools, boarding schools, orphanages and vocational children camps. The main participants are children aged 10 to 17. The representatives of this subculture call themselves AUE, an abbreviation, hiding […]
MILLER: Are Dems forfeiting judge election?
By Dick Miller WE.CONNECT.DOTS: The latest stench from Harrisburg is the odor that surrounds this fall’s election for Associate Justice of the PA Supreme Court. This week the PA Building and Trades Council endorsed Sallie Updike Mundy, a rural county Republican, for the only opening on the nation’s oldest Court (established in 1722). […]
Uruguay, First Country in the World to Legally Regulate Marijuana, Begins Retail Sales Next Week
International Momentum to End Marijuana Prohibition and War on Drugs Continues to Intensify DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: Next week, Uruguay will begin sales of legal marijuana for adult residents. The marijuana legalization proposal was put forward by former President José Mujica in 2012 as part of a comprehensive package aimed at improving public safety. […]
KEISLING: Fools rush in: Philadelphia DA Seth Williams grandstands and bites the dust
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Bill Keisling’s forthcoming book on Pennsylvania government, business and media. Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane’s ill-considered response to the Inquirer’s Tyron Ali sting article had several other immediate if unpredictable consequences. Philadelphia DA Seth Williams, a Democrat who had hired Fina and several other prosecutors from Corbett’s AG’s […]