A report by Doug McVay, Administrator NewsLanc is a frequent target of brute force hacking attempts. This has been true for the past few years. This happens with a lot of sites so it’s not surprising. Unfortunately, though they are brute force login attempts the attacks sometimes come at such a rate that they become […]
New Statistics From Russia of Interest to the West
By Slava Tsukerman On May 25, 2019 the Kremlin sociological service VTsIOM published a survey about public confidence in President Vladimir Putin that was given much attention by the Russian media. The confidence rating was 31.7%. This was the lowest figure for all the 13 years of this indicator. The trust for the president of […]
A cruise question that never occurs: “So what have you achieved with your life?”
By Robert Field Those are the questions I would have like to have put to fellow old people whom we met on our cruise ship as we toured the Baltic states from Reyjavik, Iceland to Copenhagen, Denmark There were only a few young couples that mistakenly chose this cruise. It combines the worst elements […]
Entertainment Scandal in Russia
By Slava Tsukerman Last week Russia experienced one of the largest media scandals in Russian history. No economic or political news in several years triggered such emotional reaction from both media and general public. Surprisingly, the scandal was triggered not by political news, but by the results of children singing competition on TV. Yet unexpectedly […]
In defense of LNP – And farewell to our print edition
By Robert Field, Publisher and Editor Over the past decade, NewsLanc has taken to task The Lancaster Newspapers (now LNP) for slanting news coverage to benefit the Steinman family’s other investments and to curry to advertisers and powerful elements in the community. Yet a couple of recent events have added perspective. One is the Reading […]
How a last minute obscure insertion into the 2016 omnibus tax bill gave Penn Square Partners a $3.4M gift
Through Pennsylvania’s Right to Know law, NewsLanc has obtained correspondence among the City, Penn Square Partners, High Realty, government authorities, and pertinent others pertaining to Penn Square Partner’s CRIZ application for the proposed Marriott Tower addition. 1998: “Penn Square Partners, headed by the High Real Estate Group, announced this morning that it has signed papers to acquire […]
REF: Factual information re Health Care is to be my final contribution
By Robert Field As one who read Plutarch Lives while in tenth grade, I have long been fascinated by history. I had an opportunity to exercise that interest at Cal Berkeley both through the curriculum and my independent readings. And my studies have continued through at least 67 of my 82 years, ebbing and […]
List of Awards to NewsLanc’s Hungarian sister publication
Like Newslanc, Abcúg is sponsored by the Real Reporting Foundation. Like NewsLanc, it is devoted to bringing factual information to its readership. Despite a decade of reliable reporting of community and state happenings by Chris Hart-Nibbrig and Bill Keisling and proven right time and again for its editorial positions, NewsLanc has yet to be […]
Steinman Family media do not currently fund The Steinman Foundation as claimed by LNP
A recent article “Steinman Foundation: Nonprofit’s co-chair steps down” concerning the retirement of R “Peggy” Steinman as co-chair states the following: “The Steinman Foundation is a local, independent family foundation funded by the companies that make up Steinman Communications; those companies include LNP Media Group, which publishes LNP, The Caucus Lancaster Farming, The Ephrata Review; The […]
Games Grandpa Used To Play
By Phil Starr* DEDICATION To my wife, Rhea, whose love and support made me a better person and helped me to write this essay. INTRODUCTION I had been thinking of writing this essay on and off for several years.about games that I played in Brooklyn as a youth. In the spring of 1999, there was a […]
Russian “Day of the Defender of the Fatherland”
By Slava Tsukerman This year as always on February 23, Russians celebrated “Defender of the Fatherland Day.” It is a public holiday, a day off for the general population, schools and most businesses are closed. Many Russians observe February 23 as Men’s Day because military service is obligatory for most men in Russia. Women often […]
NYT: “How the Trump-Kim Summit Failed: Big Threats, Big Egos, Bad Bets”
N NEW YORK TIMES: “From March 3rd edition of the New York Times: “In a dinner at the Metropole Hotel the evening before, mere feet from the bomb shelter where guests took cover during the Vietnam War, Mr. Kim had resisted what Mr. Trump presented as a grand bargain: North Korea would trade all its nuclear weapons, […]
REF: A near death dream
A near death dream 3:00 AM, Friday, February 22, 2019 There was a fire, there was an gasoline saturated cloth linking the living working above and the fire below. There was the moment of fear that they would touch. And then the holocaust and all were dead. Then the spirits of those involved […]
Three for one: The Jamanis family at Catholic High (Time changed)
March 3, 2019, at 3:00 pm at Lancaster Catholic High School, Michael Jamanis will be performing (with his mum & dad!) works of Viennese composers Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms. This event is FREE, but donations are encouraged! All proceeds will support the arts at LCHS. Please spread the word! Friends, family, co-workers, baristas, strangers on the […]