The big story today is how Amazon.com has withdrawn its offer to locate in Queens, New York City and provide 25,000 of jobs, touted as largely benefiting Latinos and African Americans. Bezos, the estimable founder of Amazon and more recently owner of the venerable and admirable Washington Post is steeped in the Internet culture, but […]
41% of Young People Wish to Leave Russia
By Slava Tsukerman Emigration is a recognized problem in contemporary Russia. According to the Rosstat estimate, from 1989 to 2015, 4.5 million citizens left Russia. On February 4, the Levada Center published the results of survey concerning the emigration attitudes of Russians. The survey was conducted from December 13 through December 19, 2018. It covered […]
NYT Circulation Department to Lancaster: ‘We don’t care’
EDITOR’S UPDATE: Good news! This morning the New York Times was delivered to the foot of our driveway on the right day and by 7:00 AM. We would like to fantasize that our article caused reverberations on 43rd Street in NYC, but it is likely more the results of consumer complaints. Why would […]
Rick Gray could only kick the can so far down the road
We read in recent days that the City of Lancaster is entering into a Consent Decree with the Pennsylvania Environmental Agency that may cost the City from $100 million to $150 million. Below is is what we had to say on the matter back in February, 2015. Rick Gray’s EPA chickens are coming home to […]
Wisdom
All my life my Liberal friends saw me as Conservative and my Conservative friends perceived me as Liberal. I have always sought to look at things as they are… Not through the prism of ideology.
NYT “OPINION: Why Ralph Northam Should Not Resign”
NEWSLANC’S EDITOR’S NOTE: Finally there are signs of the media coming to their senses. “Zeitgeist” only lasts so long. But it can be murderous. By Bret Stephens It’s probably for the best that Ralph Northam seems determined not to resign as governor of Virginia. He may have done something ugly and dumb many years ago, when […]
Russian Media Lauds New Russian Weapons Able to Annihilate USA
By Slava Tsukerman Lately, several articles about the superiority of Russian weapons appeared in the Russian press. The articles were widely reprinted by dozens of Russian publications. On January 28, 2019, Zvezda, Russian weekly of the Ministry of Defense, published the article of the military expert Alexey Leonkov entitled “Why attempts to cast doubt on […]
REF Speaks: Re Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia and The tyranny of Zeitgeist
By Robert Field Merriam-Webster Dictionary: Scholars have long maintained that each era has a unique spirit, a nature or climate that sets it apart from all other epochs. In German, such a spirit is known as “Zeitgeist,” from the German words Zeit, meaning “time,” and Geist, meaning “spirit” or “ghost.” Some writers and artists assert that the true […]
How Russians Celebrate New Years
By Slava Tsukerman After the Communist Revolution in 1917, the celebration of New Year and religious holidays were canceled in Russia. New Year’s revival at the state level began only at the end of 1930s, but still remained a working day. After the suffering of Russian people in WWII, Stalin needed to raise morale. By […]
Dick Shellenberger, a leader of good character, RIP
By Robert Field Statements in the below obituary of Dick Shellenberger are shameful and we blame the editors and publisher of LNP for allowing and likely encouraging the almost decade long distortions. This was an opportunity to imply “mea culpa” for their long going, self serving, no holds barred role in the Lancaster Convention Center […]
Russian Economic Projection for 2019
By Slava Tsukerman Russian media presents a lot of contradictory prognoses for the future of the Russian economy. On one hand, TV and the most popular official publications keep presenting to public messages of the type below, published by the site vesifinance.ru: “President Vladimir Putin positively assessed the state of the Russian economy, the Kremlin […]
What do Marie Antoinette, Sigmund Freud, schnitzel, and Michael Jamanis have in common?
What do Marie Antoinette, Sigmund Freud, schnitzel, and Michael Jamanis have in common? (hint: it’s not powdered wigs) The answer is Vienna, and Michael is bringing the wonderful music of Classical-era Vienna to Lancaster, along with two very special guests – his parents! The program will include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Shubert, and Brahms. WHEN: Tuesday, January […]
Of All People: The DEA Demolishes One of Trump’s Main Claims About the Border Wall
by psmith, January 08, 2019, 05:24pm, (Issue #1051) DRUG WAR CHRONICLE: As the president attempts to make his case for a wall on the US-Mexico border, one of his main selling points is that the wall would reduce the flow of illicit drugs into the country. Of all people, it’s not our favorite agency […]
REF speaks: The fall of Lancaster
By Robert Field David Schuyler’s book published in 2002 * on the process of redevelopment of downtown Lancaster some fifty years ago describes the largely unsuccessful effort at the time to protect downtown Lancaster as the core retail center from attempts to develop suburban shopping centers. The result of the regional ‘understanding’ was the ultimate […]