The Lancaster Public Library West-Mountville Branch will re-open in its new location at the Mountville Area Community Center 120 College Ave on Monday June 27th at 10:00 a.m. Lissa Holland, volunteers and staff, aided by LPL’s maintenance crew and the Library System IT Department , have been hard at work since last week-end moving books, setting up shelves and making the facility ready.
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LETTER: Huge deficit, no recovery
I am tired and sick of hearing about the “US economic recovery”. The Federal government borrowed and spent $6.1 trillion during the last 4 years to obtain a cumulative $700 billion increase in the country’s GDP. That means we’ve borrowed and spent $8.70 for every $1 of nominal “growth” in Gross domestic product.
Why Aren’t More Americans Getting Screened For HIV?
Estimates suggest that one-in-five people living with an HIV infection does not know it. And between 2001 and 2007, one third of people diagnosed with HIV had developed AIDS within the next 12 months — in spite of the fact that the benefits of testing and early treatment are widely known.
Puzzling Propaganda
On December 17, 2004, on the front page, bylined by its lead convention center beat reporter, Dave Pidgeon, the Intelligencer Journal ran an article entitled: “City to Purchase Watt & Shand.” In the article, Pidgeon quotes city officials and Penn Square Partners (PSP) president, Nevin Cooley, outlining in detail the Partners’ plan to sell the former Watt & Shand building to the city of Lancaster, through its Redevelopment Authority (RACL).
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
Article “Happy hours to expand in bill sent to Corbett” reports: “Under legislation that received final House passage on Wednesday, bars and restaurants will get more flexibility to schedule the times they sell cheap drinks each week. Bars would still have to comply with the total 14-hour-a-week happy-hour limit, but the bill increases the happy-hour period from two hours to four hours a day…
Potatoes bad, nuts good for staying slim, Harvard study finds
From the WASHINGTON POST: Everyone knows that people who chow down on french fries, chug soda and go heavy on red meat tend to pile on more pounds than those who stick to salads, fruits and grains. But is a serving of boiled potatoes really much worse than a helping of nuts? Is some white bread as bad as a candy bar? Could yogurt be a key to staying slim?
LETTER: Comments on judge decision on Henderson vs. Lancaster Newspapers
As I am not a lawyer it may be difficult to give a fair assessment to Judge Griffiths ruling in the Henderson case but, since we all have to live with mountains of judicial opinions and further, since we all must have some opinion as to the quality and fairness of many judge’s opinions in order to vote for them, I will attempt to give, in layman’s terms, what I believe is the substance of Judge Griffiths three page opinion that has taken his court three years to produce.
Binge drinking, not pot, is the problem on campuses
USA today reports in an article “NCAA drug testing shows increase in pot use”: “Although the positives represent less than 3% of the total samples tested by the NCAA, the increase worries Travis Tygart, CEO of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which is the national anti-doping organization for the Olympic movement.
INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA
WATCHDOG: Corbett would rather keep his promise to the Marcellus Shale contributors than tax their profits as do other states. It doesn’t seem to bother him at all that, for lack of tax revenue, children will go hungry, teachers will be discharged, libraries go unfunded.
This is the same guy whose department when state attorney general failed to investigate conceivably felonious misrepresentation on the LCCCA Application for $15 million in state funds and who incorrectly advised the PAM board that assets could be turned over to creditors without state review and approval.
The only way to change what society thinks
If it is true that the very nature of the way that our brains functions determines how we view new information and causes us to unconsciously deny facts that do not fit with our prior patterns of expectations, then the greatest hope for change lies with influencing future generations.
LETTER: Article and its source lack credibility
Come on. First of all, a simple google search returns several hundred hits related to this story. Second, after reading the full article, I can’t help but laugh, it is written like a poor man’s conspiracy novel. Let’s get some facts straight here. Calhoun has been in a state of cold shutdown since April for a refueling outage.
Woody Allen at “Midnight,” “Beginners,” and an afterthought on “Bridesmaids”
Recently “Sight and Sound,” the world’s foremost English language film journal, boasted a cover story on Woody Allen. The article, timed around the UK release of “You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger,” was titled, “In Defense of Woody Allen.”
The problem with history is it keeps changing!
Mention the name of Henry Clay and the first association that comes to mind is “The great compromiser”, he being the author of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Every school boys knows that!
However, according to “Henry Clay, The Essential American” by David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler (2010), “… Illinois senator Jesse Thomas stepped up with a plan…not just the unrestricted admission of both Maine and Missouri but also a demarcation of the Louisiana Purchase at latitude 36* 30’, which was the southern border of Missouri. Except for Missouri, all states formed north of that line would be free; any states south of it had the option to choose slavery.”
Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think
From ALJAZEERA: “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. “We have 20 nuclear cores exposed, the fuel pools have several cores each, that is 20 times the potential to be released than Chernobyl,” said Gundersen.