“It is not unusual to have concrete floors and rented carpeting. Carpeting only makes sense when you know what the core events are going to be. It needs to be replaced every five years. “However, many of the large venues have a mix of floor finishes. At Long Beach, for instance, most of the halls […]

Bad times are the seeds for better times, provided the government follows well charted Keynsian economic policies. Auto and trucks wear out over time. Sooner or later they will have to be replaced. And when the recovery starts, the demand will combine both the normal with the postponed. Families are formed, grow and then shrink […]

We don’t understand why an affiliate of one of the most successful firms in the county (www.TheManorGroup.com) has not received a single inquiry concerning the following well paying opening, but we sure wish we could find the right person. If you know a good candidate, please bring the opportunity to his / her attention, even […]

Excerpted from the New Yorker, Dec. 22, 2008. “News You Can Lose” by James Surowiecki “Newspaper readership has been slowly dropping for decades—as a percentage of the population, newspapers have about half as many subscribers as they did four decades ago—but the Internet helped turn that slow puncture into a blowout. Papers now seem to […]

Jacques Gibble, guest education columnist for the Dec. 21st Sunday News, states: “I agree that telling a student he is doing well when he is not is immoral and has a chilling effect on long term growth. But for many years our schools have operated on the belief that academic success is mainly controlled by […]

All three then county commissioners came to agree that the sale of the Conestoga Nursing Home was conducted with inappropriate haste. Yet many will recall how enraged and outspoken then Sunday News columnist Art Morris was that in private hands the quality of service would greatly suffer. It appears his concerns and those of many […]

The announcement of high rise condominiums by a first rate team of developer Steve Risk, architects John De Vitry and Ken Hammel, and real estate broker Marilyn Berger bodes well for downtown Lancaster. The Museum Tower Condominiums would be built above the combination museum and parking garage to be constructed on the vacant northeast corner […]

The sales and marketing competence by Interstate Hotels and Resorts for the Convention Center Project is precisely what is absent from the fragmented sixteen libraries, albeit if combined into one organization they would approximate the size of the convention center project and serve a far greater number of people. As things now stand, a library […]

Shortly after the end of the Convention Center Marketing Committee meeting while awaiting the start of the monthly full Authority Board meeting, two veteran hotel and commercial real estate executives chatted in the corridor about how impressed they were with the performance of the Convention Center project sales and marketing staff. When Josh Nowak, Director […]

No matter how vile the crimes for which a prisoner has been convicted and / or currently stands accused, he or she is entitled to fair treatment and protection while in custody. We live in a nation of laws, not vigilantism. How the media reports on sex related crimes plays a part in generating the […]

On Dec. 17, the New Era stated “Lancaster County Prison inmates relentlessly taunted a suspected child molester, urging him to kill himself, right up until the moment he did so four weeks ago in Lancaster County Prison.” Soon after the Nov. 19th suicide and long before it was mentioned in the print media, NewsLanc received […]

At their Dec. 17 meeting, the County Commissioners “piggy backed” a contract already existing between the County of Lehigh with Oasis Management Systems for inmate commissary services at the Lancaster County prison for a three year period. The county will receive 37% of revenue from the sale of sundries. In turn, all of the money […]

At their Dec. 17 meeting, County Commissioners Dennis Stuckey, Scott Martin and Craig Lehman congratulated their department heads and staffs and, seemingly, themselves for having cut expenditures in order to achieve a balance budget for 2009 without the need for a tax increase. But two members of the audience, taking different tacks, objected to such […]

PKF Hospitality Research is forecasting a 7.8% drop in hotel revenue per room night sold (hence overall room revenue) in 2009 without recovery starting to take place until the second quarter of 2010. They described the current situation as “the fifth largest annual decline in this important measure since 1930.” Since the Convention Center will […]