The tabloid cover states: “Greetings from the Hamilton Club…women and minorities need not apply…” WATCHDOG: The Hamilton Club has been integrated for decades, so the cover is misleading and unfair. Furthermore, it is not surprising that key supporters of the Convention Center Project would also be members of a Club largely serving professionals, the rich […]

WATCHDOG was asleep: We were so enthusiastic about the introduction of the weekly Lancaster Post that the Watchdog failed to criticize the tabloid’s April 25th front page political cartoon entitled “Double Crossings” that portrays all five Manheim Township commissioners as puppets for Dale High. A recent Letter refers to the cartoon as ” …not accurate […]

SUNDAY NEWS May 11 Special: “Don’t make gifted students wait for college courses” WATCHDOG: Kudos to retired teacher Dorothy Saunders for her “In My Opinion” rebuttal to the earlier opinion piece by Francis J. Bremer, Chair of the Millersville University History Department, objecting to the teaching of college courses in history to high performing high […]

Comparing the performance of the current commissioners with their predecessors, the reporter said “That’s a marked change from the squabbles and controversies that frequently bogged down the previous board, consisting of Dick Shellenberger, Molly Henderson, and Pete Shaub.” WATCHDOG: “Squabbles?”?? That is how they refer to the debate about the future of Lancaster City, the […]

WATCHDOG: Why do we rush through Marv Adams’s Sunday News column ramblings to get to what his daughter had to say? Marv should double her allowance and give us more of Abigail’s piercing tongue.

The editorial “Fold ’em; We won’t put our money on legislation to raise the stakes for small games of chance. Instead it’s time to draw the line on gambling” expresses the noble sentiments of the editors. WATCHDOG: A few years down the road when the convention center and hotel are tanking, word will come down […]

Jeff Hawkes’s May 1 column, “Recidivism: The point of no return” makes good points concerning the need to reduce prison population and curtail costs without compromising public safety. He quotes Rep. Katie True, who has come a long way over the years in drug policy and harm reduction sophistication, as saying “When you hear from […]

SUNDAY NEWS: “[Manheim] township said High must pay for about $27 million worth of traffic improvements at Harrisburg Pike and Route 30. High is eyeing government sources for most of the cost.” WATCHDOG: Better said, High is eyeing taxpayers for most of the cost. High makes a specialty of so funding their projects .

Apparently reporters and editors of the monopoly (well they were!) Lancaster Newspapers failed to notice that thousands of copies of the initial issue of the Lancaster Post were being handed out downtown on Friday and Saturday….or they didn’t consider this news! Three guesses why.

In his April 16 article “What’s going on here”, Jack Brubaker poses the question “Once scheduled events end at the Convention Center, will visitors find enough to do as they wander out into the town? Does Lancaster have sufficient restaurants, shops, nightclubs, theaters and other amenities to host thousands of new visitors?” WATCHDOG: Good questions. […]

DISAPPOINTING: The Sunday News editorial heralded “I’ve got a secret: In two events last week, government told us in so few words that what we don’t know won’t hurt us.” WATCHDOG: It then went on to discuss the replacement of the Warwick School Board President in possible violation of the Sunshine Act and the police’s […]

WATCHDOG: The Intelligencer Journal of April 10 gave a byline to P. J. Reilly for allegedly reporting on the Commissioners Meeting but, if he was there, he must have been asleep most of the time. Compare the Intell article devoted to a Board of Elections hand out with NewsLanc’s report under News & Commentary headed […]

JEFF HAWKES is one for two this week with his superlative April 10 column “Thibault misguided on transit spending.” The last paragraph sums up the view of many: “Thibault’s mailer calls his style ‘conservative leadership.’ I call it pandering.” WATCHDOG: The age of terror at the monopoly newspapers during the convention center rip off seemed […]