On Thursday, September 25, PNC Bank is holding a free “open house networking breakfast.” “Start your morning off by joining the PNC Bank Fruitville Pike staff for an open house networking breakfast. Bring cards and conversation.” It’s being held from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at the PNC Bank at 1966 Fruitville Pike. The Pennsylvania Academy […]

We applaud today’s decision by the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners not to authorize the previously-anticipated purchase of 54 electronic eSlate voting machines with recently acquired grant monies. NewsLanc presented information to the Commissioners last week casting significant doubt on the reliability of these machines, which do not produce a voter-verified paper trail.

In a surprising move, Tuesday, the County Commissioners acted not to authorize the expenditure of recently-acquired grant monies on additional eSlate computerized voting machines. eSlate machines are the computerized touch-screens that are hailed by supporters as more efficient and criticized by opponents as not producing a verifiable paper trail. During discussion of a contract to […]

I have no reason to doubt the facts presented in the Sunday News article regarding the hurdles faced by sports programs in inner city high schools like McCaskey, which are populated by overwhelmingly high percentages of low income or poor students, most of whom are Black and Latino students. Nor do I object to the […]

“I read the article and I agree the children are being blamed… “How is this for irony. One of the former Lancaster coaches is now the Head coach at York High and they are undefeated this year and they only lost two games last year. This coach took a lowly football program and built it […]

In his column “It’s election time, and you can hear the silence roar”, Dave Pidgeon of the Intelligencer Journal comments about not hearing “a peep” from Democrat congressional candidate Bruce Slater and Republican Joe Pitts. From our personal observation, Slater may have simply loaned his name to the campaign while he devotes his time and […]

There is a lengthy article in the sports section of today’s Sunday News that focuses on McCaskey’s challenges in the area of athletics. It seems as though they are attributing the problems they face solely due to being an urban school district. I understand this is some part of the problem, but failing to address […]

“To the publisher, “This is P.J. Reilly from the Intell writing. In your editorial, you state that reporters from the Intell, including me, were allowed to make a ‘dubious plea bargain’ in the Kirchner case. Please be accurate in your statements. No reporter was offered a ‘plea bargain.’ That indicates admission to a crime. In […]

In a valuable Jaff Hawkes column in the Intelligencer Journal of Sept. 19 camouflaged under the heading “When the best, brightest are young, restless” (a sign of Hawkes ’or his editor’s usual timidity), Hawkes reveals that Lancaster region’s ranking by The Milken Institute of Best Performing Cities has dropped from the pitiful 161st place in […]

The Lancaster County Convention Center Authority held its September board meeting on Thursday evening. Chairman of the Board Art Morris reported that he expects to know the status of the $3.2 million contingency fund request from the state by the October board meeting. Morris noted that, in the event that the state funding does not […]

The Lancaster County Convention Center marketing team on Thursday announced four new opening-year bookings for the center. Three planners backed out, however, resulting in a net increase from July to August of only 1 event. Marketing Director Josh Nowak explained that a number of planners seem not to be very enthusiastic about our geographic location. […]

“This greed was beyond irresponsible” was how the Financial Times of London describes the cause of the greatest financial melt down since the Great Depression. It as accurately applies to the origins of our local Convention Center / Hotel project. First a disclaimer before the revelations to follow: The convention center and hotels are realities […]

Representatives of the Government Study Commission (GSC) presented their revised postcard mailer to the County Commissioners in the hope of winning their approval, Wednesday. The Commissioners had previously put the GSC “on notice” that they would not approve the bill for the postcard as it was previously written. The reason given was that the language […]

The County Commissioners shrugged off concerns about the integrity of electronic voting, Wednesday. Their comments came in response to questions from NewsLanc asking them to reconsider their recent approval of funding for the purchase of additional voting machines, including 54 electronic “eSlate” machines. Commissioner Scott Martin said, “The security process that the eSlates go through […]