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 […]

According to a Dec. 16 posting on the Detroit News web site, Detroit’s morning and evening newspapers will publish on alternate days, Monday through Saturday, thus reducing production and distribution costs for both. They will also push their online editions. David Hunke, Free Press publisher, is quoted as saying “We’re fighting for our survival.” Over […]

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It had been the aspiration of the then-President of the Lancaster Public Libraries, Karen Haley Field, and her husband and the project manager, Robert Edwin Field, that a fully renovated and expanded Lancaster Public Library on Duke Street would be in large part a gift of both their combined efforts and a major grant. The […]

The Sunday News, also the Intell and the New Era, should publicize the need for an independent study of alternative rail yard sites, as NewsLanc is urging in its latest ‘Watchdog’ commentary. The editors of all three newspapers received a written request for an investigatory story as recently as last month, and nothing came from […]

(Better late than never department) Addressing the Lancaster Rotary Club in February, 2008, Tim Peters who directs the “Lancaster Streetcar Company” indicated that many other cities, including Memphis, Little Rock, and even nearby Media, Pennsylvania, have implemented streetcar systems with success. On an idle December Sunday afternoon, NewsLanc decided to research Peters’ assertion via the […]

With the auto industry the largest national advertisers, it is perhaps understandable, albeit yet regrettable, that media coverage so often allow auto spokespersons to talk nonsense without contradiction. The prime example is the bugaboo that bankruptcy will lead to the closing down of GM, Ford and Chrysler and the loss of hundreds of thousands of […]

Yes, libraries in Lancaster County are disgracefully under funded, often run down, and unable to provide adequate education and recreation as compared to the rest of the country. But there is a second side to the problem. According to the Dec. 14 Sunday News article too cutely headed “Book bound by budget tightening”, System executive […]

Last month, a public spirited citizen, trained as an economist and a very successful businessman, delivered three copies of John Maynard Keynes “The General Theory of Economics” to the commissioners. Perhaps the point was too subtle, but the message was, according to Keynes, that cutting the budget during a recession is the worst possible thing […]

Mayor Rick Gray announced at Tuesday’s City Council meeting that plumbing and electrical inspections will be out sourced to outside firms and the results would be an anticipated savings of $140,000 by eliminating city inspectors. NewsLanc inquired to determine whether $140,000 savings would be real or, at least in part, illusionary. According to Randy S. […]

Construction of the Convention Center has fallen further behind schedule, Construction Manager Tim Reynolds told a Convention Center Authority committee, Thursday evening. Progress on the “critical path” is now a full 60 days behind schedule after site work fell behind another 12 days in November, according to Reynolds. Reynolds attributes the “slippage” to poor weather, […]

A special nominating committee of the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority met late Thursday afternoon and voted to retain its current slate of officers for 2009. Sharron Nelson, who chaired the committee, explained that she contacted each of the parties involved and all agreed that the current arrangement is working well. Julianne Dickson made the […]

Fourteen Lancaster Post red distribution boxes are back on the streets, this time identified by temporary NewsLanc bumper stickers. To our current readers, their presence is of little importance. But it is a way for drivers and pedestrians to become aware of NewsLanc, to sample our work, and hopefully to be attracted to our website.

By Matt Henderson Drug addictions are physical dependencies and those affected have very high relapse rates. Addicts in a state of withdrawal are not themselves and will sometimes lash out in antisocial or criminal behavior either in generalized frustration or in trying to find money to support their habit. With this in mind, consider that […]