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Statement to the Commissioners LCCCA BOARD MEMBERS CALL FOR MORATORIUM ON CONVENTION CENTER CONSTRUCTION UNTIL COSTS ARE FINAL. Also announce Public “County Meetings” PriceWaterhouseCoopers Asks that Name be Taken off LCCCA Website LCCCA Board Members Alarmed at Decision- Making Process Fox-43 Poll Shows 4 out of 5 County Residents Oppose Bond Guarantees for Hotel/Convention Center Study Shows Convention Centers Bad Business Nationwide Citizens Speak out Against Convention Center Stevens & Lee: Project Lawyers Bill Over $5 Million |
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Welcome to NewsLanc.com, an e-zine focused on the important issues in the city and county of Lancaster. Our mission is to provide an alternative source of coverage and comment from the monopoly Lancaster press. We will provide news without spin, editorials without vested interests and personal attacks, and solicit vigorous discussions by the public. Over the course of a year, we expect NewsLanc.com to evolve in several exciting ways, including expansion of the distribution of our weekly newsletters. We welcome volunteers who will wear our distinctive NewsLanc.com yellow T-shirts and hand out our newsletters downtown on market days and at special events throughout the county. If you like what you see, spread the word among family, friends, and coworkers. And let's hear from you. Write us at editor@newlanc.com. Robert Edwin Field, President Robert Edwin Field, President and Publisher Graduate of University of California - Berkeley, BA ‘59 with a major in economics. Semi-retired builder, owner and operator of apartment complexes and hotels (http://themanorgroup.com). Partners with son Richard who develops planned communities in Eastern Europe. Executive producer for award winning motion pictures “Liquid Sky” (1983), “Diamond Men” (2001), the documentary “Stalin’s Wife” (2005), and “Perestroika” (2009). Finance chairman of Arlen Specter’s successful 1980 statewide senatorial campaign. Co-founder with Melvin R. Allen of Project Forward Leap, for twenty years a program providing five weeks of educational overnight summer camp plus year-round academic support for about 300 inner city kids each year. Co-founder with Kevin B. Zeese of Common Sense for Drug Policy. Founder of Central Pennsylvania Syringe Exchange. Co-sponsor (2002 - 2005) of a state and federally approved Lancaster Prototype Methadone Program permitting local prescription fulfillment and medical care for stable clients while patients remain under aegis of a regional methadone clinic. Although living in Lancaster for over 40 years, Field only turned his political activism to local issues as he became aware of the oversights and misrepresentations taking place by the local media concerning the Convention Center Project. (See mission statement.) Cliff B. Lewis serves both as a reporter and feature writer. He is a 2008 graduate of Millersville University, majoring in English with a minor in History. Cliff is also a local musician, a coffee aficionado and a card-carrying Downtown Lancastrian. He and his wife currently reside on West Orange Street. Cliff was previously employed as a technical writer.Jilly Harris serves as webmaster. She attends The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division. A recent arrival to Lancaster, she formerly was employed as a file clerk for a South Bend, IN law firm. She is also a certified floral designer. |
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