A trillion dollars is a huge number. Many calculators can’t even handle a number this large. To put it in terms that are easier to comprehend, each additional trillion dollars of “stimulus” results in about $3,200 of new debt for each man, woman and child in the US. If our legislators are hell bent on […]

I am not sure if the study you reference in your recent article was the Pinnacle Report; however, if it was not…it is yet another study ignored. Once “local leaders” saw the draft of that study, which suggested a much, much smaller scale project would make the most sense for downtown, they stopped paying and […]

The School District of Lancaster made a really good hire with Jon Mitchell. Jon is a long-time SDoL educator, coach and resident. He will work hard to improve the administration of the athletic department. He has his principal certification and a Masters degree in athletic administration. His father has been coaching high school athletics for […]

It is highly unlikely that any Federal dollars will ever be sent to the downtown Lancaster hotel and convention center. This project has already run afoul of two previous administrations because of its blatant disregard for long-standing Federal historic preservation standards. When this project was originally proposed, Federal tax credits had been expected to significantly […]

The County Commissioners had 2 appraisals for the property on W. King, currently the Magistrate office. That is going up for closed bids in March at absolute of $460,000. There is no way in today’s economic conditions someone is gong to pay that price or more for a piece of property that is assessed at […]

In response to the January 25th editorial “Job opening ignored”, it is both shameful and predictable that the NewsLanc.com job has not been wholly inquired by Lancaster County reporter applicants. You see (and applicants– don’t due to myopia) that NewsLanc.com takes on the strong entities of this county such as ‘The Big Five’ — The […]

Is it common knowledge that Tom Beeman [President of Lancaster General Hospital] and John Fry [President of Franklin and Marshall College] are college buddies?

You make good points in this story but it also serves as a great example to the ignorance about the true realities of the financing on this project. With the exception of a select few at Stevens and Lee, who dreamed up this scam to benefit Penn Square Partners, and the top management at PSP, […]

This is the first time in my writing years that no one will publish an article regarding “divorce” and its bias in many cases. The following are just a few of the injustices that have been known as fact: Divorce Master’s are to make a decision within 30 days…some take months, years to make a […]

An out-of-state reader of NewsLanc who read about TRRAAC’s investigation of the sources of public funding for the $46 million project to relocate and expand the Norfolk Southern Dillerville Rail Yard emailed me his reaction: “The F&M and LGH fundraising is a great example of manipulation of state and federal funding mechanisms and of misrepresentation […]

The real problem is that the servicing company is in control. They have no incentive to negotiate because they make money by driving the foreclosure process forward. They don’t care whether the loan is paid or not. In fact, they do better if it has trouble. For some time they have been deliberately holding payments […]

I re-read the beginning of TRRAAC’s letter giving details of the applications for funding… What I would like to know is: why wouldn’t F&M and LGH provide that information when TRRAAC first asked for it? Or even before they asked, for that matter? What was the purpose behind the secrecy, other than that is the […]

Last evening I emailed President Obama as per his request of the nation. I pleaded with him and his staff to do a study on ALL the monies from the state level that has been wasted on projects to revitalize cities in the form of convention centers and the debt that the cities are taking […]

A block-long 50,000 square foot convention center. Sounds familiar. Built for $20 million? Lancaster’s block-long project has had cost overruns higher than that!