Lancaster-blog doesn’t have the staff to be everywhere – yet, stay tuned – so good on the LNP for catching the protest on West Chestnut Street yesterday where protesters came out against the problematic proposal to turn the old St. Joseph Hospital on College Avenue into a mixed…
The proposal to turn the brutalist-style old St. Joseph Hospital on College Avenue into housing, offices, and shops – including low-income housing – would create serious traffic problems, increase crime and drive down housing prices in the neighborhood.
On Monday, the first step toward this $90 million redevelopment advanced, when…
Editor’s Note: Considering both COVID and the sorry state of public schools – especially the School District of Lancaster – you should really consider home schooling, if private schooling isn’t in the cards. So here’s a handy guide to escaping the public school plantation.
By Linnea Johnson
You’ve made…
Satire and mockery used to be the stock-in-trade for American politicians and the press, going back to the days of the American Revolution, a gift from America’s founding stock in English Parliament, where cutting zingers were sharper than dueling blades.
But today, the castration of American society by the Perennially…
The toll of taxes on people in Lancaster County – starting with the federal bite all the way down to township and school district property taxes – is absolutely outrageous.
Citizens are taxed coming and going, on money they make and money they spend, on the land the stand on…
Editor’s Note: Lancaster-blog welcomes a conversation from all voices, and we’re finding more and more talented opinion writers across Lancaster County and Central PA. Send your submissions to [email protected]
By Diane Knight
One of the most terrifying things about Rachel Levine is not the fact that she is personally responsible for…
By Ben Garrison
The ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement is all about Marxism.
People are not allowed to amend the far-left slogan, “Black Lives Matter” and it’s endlessly repeated in all the blue cities. It’s painted in large letters on public thoroughfares. Trying to paint over such graffiti might get you…
Editor’s Note: Lancaster-blog welcomes a conversation from all voices, and we’re finding more and more talented opinion writers across Lancaster County and Central PA. Send your submissions to [email protected]
By Diane Knight
We can sit here and talk about Covid-19 and the unexplainable mistakes made in its management here in Pennsylvania…
Lebanon County, home of some of the strongest resistance to Gov. Tom Wolf’s draconian lockdown, is suing the governor for nearly $13 million in federal coronavirus relief funding that he withheld in retaliation for its resistance to his authoritarian lockdown actions.
The lawsuit is the latest challenge to Wolf’s emergency…
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Braving sweltering summer temperatures and even higher humidity, more than a thousand patriotic Pennsylvanians took to the steps of the Capitol in Harrisburg on Wednesday, calling for an end to Gov. Tom Wolf’s authoritarian lockdown of the Keystone State.
Speakers and attendants included several Lancaster County residents, as well as…