… [M]unicipalities in western PA are saying they can’t remove this pollution with conventional means and the existing testing for harmful substances in drinking water might not even be including all of the toxins being dumped by fracking.
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LETTER: “LNP has long history of character assassinations”
“If only we had a real newspaper that provided unbiased full coverage on issue that interest/effect all of Lancaster City/County residents, and not just a chosen few (like the power elite).”
“Lancaster residential rental vacancy rate in 2013 is the highest point since 2005”
At 5.04%, Lancaster residential rental vacancy rate in 2013 is at the highest point since 2005, the beginning of our reporting for this series.
Lancaster does not lack for adequate housing now or in the future, just leadership at all levels PART TWO
1) There must be at least 250 and likely as many as 400 relatively attractive garden apartments units vacant in the greater Lancaster area at all times. If the federal government funded and state administered Section 8 rental program allowed the tenant to supplement the government grant so that rental payments were closer to market rates, landlords would be motivated to quickly make vacant apartments available to hundreds of deserving families.
EPA report: Fracking has caused isolated, not widespread, water pollution
A federal Environmental Protection Agency study has for the first time determined that hydraulic fracturing, used in oil and gas development throughout the United States, has contaminated water supplies in isolated incidents but has not caused widespread, systematic damage to water resources.
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States.
Character assassination by media
According to a column in the Pittsburgh Tribune “By 2-to-1 margin, Pennsylvanians with opinion say AG Kane should resign”
KEISLING: Dysfunctional and over-paid PA legislature fires opening salvo in this year’s budget fight
Republican legislative leaders have finally responded to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s complicated budget proposal with a plan of their own, and it’s a plan of stunning simplicity: let’s keep doing what we’ve been doing.
Reform state sentencing
SCRANTON TIMES-TRIBUNE EDITORIAL …The trend began in 2013, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the facts underlying any sentencing enhancement must be determined by the trial jury. That’s not how it is done in Pennsylvania, where a judge may lengthen sentences if he finds that a defendant was in possession of a gun, sold drugs near a mass transit stop or a school and on and on.
LNP article “Housing Shortage threatens economy” misses an important point. PART ONE
The idea that we can afford to provide new housing for the disadvantage is as economically preposterous as giving new cars to the poor.
Medical marijuana: Committee head fears Pa. bill would ‘harm’
One man is blocking the will of the people and preventing them from having legal access to medical marijuana.
Saint Stalin
Recently Icons were found in some obscure Russian churches depicting an image of Josef Stalin. The Russian Orthodox Church hadn’t approved of such activity but officially has done nothing to stop it. 
Four central Pa. newspapers purchased by Gannett Co., owner of USA Today
YORK DAILY RECORD: Four central Pennsylvania newspaper, including the York Daily Record and the Lebanon Daily News, are among a group of newspapers being purchased byGannett Co., owner of USA Today and 81 community newspapers.
Lancasteronline “search engine” apparently not worth a damn
LNP used to retain articles in chronological order almost indefinitely under News and also its search engine worked. But in recent months, we have found the search engine to be almost useless.