NewsLanc broke three stories in a matter of four days: Lancaster County prison inmate abuse, Ronald Bailey failing to identify himself as an employee of an F&M subsidiaries when he attacked TRRAAC in a Sunday News op-ed, and Fulton Bank applying for a federal “bail out.” In all three cases, readers tipped us off to […]

According to the Nov. 18th Intelligencer Journal, at Monday’s Chamber of Commerce luncheon Commissioner Scott Martin said: “‘This is a tough economy… but we’re going to avoid putting more taxes onto your plate.” The article continues “While the county has substantial debt, [Commissioner Dennis] Stuckey said, projects such as building a new forensics center and […]

I don’t remember reading this in any of the Lancaster Newspapers……..according to the 11/12/08 issue of the Chester County Press; Fulton Financial Corp. has applied for roughly $375 million in the U.S. Department of Treasury’s bailout plan for financial services. The amount requested was the maximum allowable given the bank’s size and equaled 3 percent […]

On Monday, Nov. 17th, “If you’re into politics or public radio, then you can’t miss Lancaster native David Greene, the White House correspondent for National Public Radio, as he presents “TALES FROM THE TRAIL: A Reporter’s Account of the 2008 Presidential Election.” Schnader Theatre, Roschel Performing Arts Center, Franklin & Marshall College campus, 7:30 p.m. […]

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In response to an inquiry about its oversight in not mentioning op-ed author Ronald Bailey’s employment by a subsidiary of Franklin & Marshall College, NewsLanc received the following response from Sunday News Editor Marvin Adams: “That information should have been included at the end of the article. It was an oversight on our part not […]

Yesterday the Sunday News ran an op-ed written by Ronald Bailey supporting Franklin and Marhsall College’s position on the relocation of the Nofolk Soutern rail yard without noting, and we suspect without knowing, that Bailey is apparently in the pay of a subsidiary of F & M. The following letter exposes the situation. If so, […]

According to an article in the Sunday News “Airport: Service in time for convention center?”, taxpayers would be subsidizing the airfare for every visitor commuting from Baltimore / Washington Airport by $320 ($160 each way.) It isn’t enough that taxpayers already have had to fund or guarantee about $170 million of the Convention Center / […]

At the end of “Builders Shakeout” in the Nov. 16 Sunday News, veteran Larry Wisdom of Keystone Custom Homes is quoted as follows: “Once you get past all of the gloom and doom, what we’re experiencing is a very typical market correction…I’ve been through four of them, and we will come out of it with […]

Thursday night’s meeting was called for the purpose of collecting public input as to the project partners’ site remediation plan. Under applicable state law (Act 2), it is required that the partners have a “public involvement plan” as part of the remediation plan. But because new information about potential environmental hazards came to light AFTER […]

NewsLanc received the following Letter to the Editor: “Is there a particular course or curriculum that local leaders, be they appointed, elected, or just with their heads in the public trough, attend to prepare for PUBLIC meetings where they repeat over and over again: ‘this meeting is for public COMMENT, not questions’.” If the public […]

by Matt Henderson Representatives of Franklin & Marshall College (F&M) and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PA DEP) responded to questions from the community about F&M and Lancaster General’s cleanup plan for the former Lancaster Brickyard dump site in a three-hour forum, Thursday night. But PA DEP representative Kathleen Horvath admitted that the department […]

At the Lancaster County Convention Center Authority Facilities Programming Committee meeting held on November 13, 2008 at 6:00 PM in the Southern Market, Tim Sullivan of Reynolds Construction gave a lengthy report which included the following information: – 74% of total “hard costs” have been spent as of the end of October. – Total “slippage” […]

by Christiaan Hart-Nibbrig In a potentially explosive lawsuit, a Lancaster County man has sued county prison warden, Vincent Guarini, and three prison corrections officers for seriously beating him while he was an inmate at the Lancaster County Prison. The suit alleges that the plaintiff, Paul Barbacano, in jail because of a DUI probation violation, had […]