Ultimately, the SELHS does not provide free healthcare. The organization’s annual budget consists primarily of money collected through standard service fees. What really makes the clinic a vital asset to the community is that SELHS will accept payment through medical assistance (MA)—a currency that many doctors would not readily accept. As the need for MA increases in Lancaster County, so does the need for services provided by SELHS. There are currently over 35,000 Lancastrians on MA.
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We are conflicted re PA Academy of Music
Sometimes the publisher can play a separate role in providing advice and support in confidence to those about whom he/she later is called upon to report. NewsLanc is so conflicted having communicated on a confidential basis with Paul Ware, Ely Gonick, Fran Veri, and Michael Jamanis.
EDITORIAL: Shameful abuse of the public trust
The PA Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau (PDCVB) is largely funded by tax payers dollars, a good portion of its budget coming from its share of the Hotel Room Sales Tax imposed in order to subsidize the development and operation of the Convention Center. A poll was published in the Lancaster Newspapers and attributed as in part coming from this semi-public organization. The press release from the PDCVB claimed that the respondents overwhelmingly favored a street car system.
COMMENTARY: Street Car “survey” full of propaganda and distortions
When certain establishment forces behind the Lancaster Alliance decided to bring back streetcars to again clog city streets, they created the Lancaster Street Car Company. It in turn had the Pennsylvania Dutch Convention & Visitors Bureau conduct a recent “poll” alleging that meeting planners supportthe notion.
City passes “missing gun” ordinance
At the June 9, 2009, City Council Meeting, the Council unanimously approved Administration Bill No. 9, “requiring prompt notification to authorities of lost or stolen firearms, and imposing penalties.” The new ordinance would require gun owners to report the loss or theft of any registered firearms within 72 hours of their discovery.
Back-in Parking on College Ave: Counter-intuitive yet Reasonable
When the lines were painted for new parking arrangements on College Ave, some locals were understandably confused. Many have encountered diagonal, side-street parking before, but these spaces often branch out with the flow of traffic, allowing drivers to pull straight into their spot. In the case of College Ave, however, drivers are required to back into these angled spaces.
VIDEO: First Friday Highlights: Cosas Gallery
The First Friday of June ’09 was a soggy one. The rains had persisted most of the day and pressed on through the evening hours; but the regular crowd of monthly artwalkers was largely undeterred. Sidewalks along Prince and Queen were clustered with open umbrellas, bobbing from one gallery to the next-even spilling off beyond the typical track of Gallery Row.
COMMENTARY: What economists have learned from the Great Depression
The following is excerpted from ‘Lords Of Finance, The Bankers Who Broke The world’ but Liaquat Ahamed, The Penguin Press, 2009. It sheds light on the emphasis on maintaining liquidity and credit availability that the Bush and Obama administrations and Congress have pursued over the past year. The foot note (*) will come as a revelation to many students of the period.
LETTER: Hospital’s Residency Program would benefit from Heroin Clinic
As a substance abuse counselor, I work with the population who is afflicted with this dependency and it is heart-wrenching that only a small percentage of this population has availability of services provided to them by either the county’s lone Methadone clinic or by physicians who prescribe Suboxone (Buprenorphine HCl/Naloxone HCI dehydrate).
Don’t blame current LCCCA Board for sins of former
I’ve been watching all of this very carefully for the last several years. This has led me to believe the following:
Modern version of the Hippocratic Oath
The Declaration of Geneva by the World Medical Association, as currently amended, reads…
LETTER: Survey of Race Street Home Owners
“83% of households say they do not want pole lights. In a survey of homeowner households in the 400 & 500 blocks of Race Ave. and the 900 block of Buchanan Ave., 83% said that do not want F&M’s boulevard pole lights across the street from their properties! Of the 29 households whose properties are directly across from Buchanan Park, 24 households voted against the pole lights and only 3 voted for them. The remaining two were undecided.
Green, organic café coming to Prince St corner
The empty storefront at the southwest corner of Prince and W Orange Streets will soon become home to the “Green Man Café”, which, as owner Richard Mellinger described it, will be an eco-friendly and organic shop with a “European flavor.” Mellinger sat at an old table from the “Starving Artist Café”—which shut down several months ago after a brief run at this 106 W Orange address. The tables and chairs will be replaced, explained Mellinger, who is currently working to replace the existing purple décor with earthier, more natural tones.
EDITORIAL: Will great opportunity be grasped?
In his June 4 column headed “What’s next on city’s horizon?”, Jeff Hawkes seems oblivious to the potential and the controversy surrounding the Pennsylvania Academy of Music. Perhaps because the Lancaster Newspapers, Inc. has generously guaranteed part of the construction debt, its editors and reporters feel constrained about writing frankly about the subject.