My wife and I were handed one of your flyers when we entered the market on April 5th. I was very excited while reading this while my wife was shopping, I couldn’t wait to get home to my laptop. I am well aware of how the media never reports the whole story or very little […]

As of a few minutes ago, there are nearly 8,000 hits on the LancasterOnLine.com talk back thread about Ron Harper closing down 5thEstate.com. Just yesterday I was reading how media companies and sources follow a curve from introduction to maturity to demise. It is a typical business model. This Convention Center issue may have eroded […]

In my own philosophy, the “afterlife” is actually the legacy each of us leaves. The more positive and loving the legacy: Heaven. Negative memories or legacy: Hell. Heaven and Hell are not PLACES, but represent the legacy each of us leaves

The legacy Art Morris will leave? How about the shutdown of the Southern Market, turning it into meeting rooms, and GIVING a large portion of it to the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce and Industry for their headquarters – the same Lancaster Chamber which created the Lancaster Alliance and the Lancaster Campaign, which answers directly to […]

Last evening (3-29-2008), my wife and I attended The Lancaster Symphony performance at the Fulton Theater. The performance was excellent as usual. After the performance, many of us were crossing the street to go to our cars when all of a sudden piercing police sirens were everywhere. Six police cars came flying by us and […]

Just wanted to drop a quick line about your mission statement. Though I find Newslanc a refreshing, oftentimes accurate alternative to the Lancaster newspaper, I think it’s a bit deceiving to say that you have no vested interests and no personal motivations for the content you publish. Editor’s response: We thank the contributor for the […]

Your excellent coverage of the TRAC meeting Tuesday night is what Larry Alexander, the reporter at the meeting for the Intelligencer Journal, should have written and didn’t. My question is, why didn’t he?

I found it a little backwards that Columbia wants to put a highway on its waterfront. Granted the RR is already there, but quite a few RRs have gone to trails in the past decade. To take a city’s beautiful asset and farther remove it from citizens just seems to be a huge mistake. The […]

Thank you very much for the $10,000.00 pledge (LOL and the media hype) for renovations to Rodney Park. There are those of us who have been trying for years, to no avail, to get improvements to our park for our children. As you have recently seen, our area is rather economically depressed, however, our children […]

I think the following question goes against Newslanc’s proposed mission: “Is there a coincidence that soon after the funding was raised largely from Lancaster’s Power Elite that Darcus took over the helm of the LCCCA and rammed the project through despite considerable opposition and all logic?” Perhaps the piece would have been more appropriate under […]

Congratulations on raising the issue of the obvious conflict of interest with interim Lancaster County Convention Center Authority executive director, Art Morris, a longtime Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. columnist, representing the public to Penn Square Partners. Your readers undoubtedly know that half of Penn Square Partners is Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. This should be unacceptable to the […]

Nancy Collins, Franklin & Marshall Vice President for Communications, in a letter published Mar. 15 in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, charged that a Mar. 8 column by New Era columnist Carol Petersen (“F&M’s what’s-good-for-us-is-good-for-you concept”) contained “a number of inaccuracies.” One of these “inaccuracies” that Ms. Collins attempts to correct has to do with […]

This is a perfect example of the hedged, nuanced speech the college always uses. You will notice there is NOT an absolute guarantee. The included paragraph about local zoning etc. is the Catch-22. Our understanding is that Manheim Township requires TWO roads into/out of any development, especially cluster type dwellings. Our understanding is that they […]

Why does your organization do everything in its power to destroy the momentum of the revitalization of the city that is occurring? I live in the city and own my home. I am all for the convention center , First Friday, the ball park and the initiatives of the JSID and FM contributions to making […]