PART 2 IN A SERIES!

DOES CHERYL KNOW?

Cheryl Dum Markle from her “Linkedin” account (click here).

     Well, as you can see from the below comments into this site, my stalker, Steve Markle, has been busy over the last two days (please excuse the language).
     Two or three times a day I get these kinds of love notes from Steve and have for almost seven years (you read that correctly). And he says I’m crazy!
     And his wife, Cheryl Dum Markle, really thinks people will be “dum” enough to give a convicted stalker’s wife their most personal information? LOL! Talk about crazy!

    I hope Cheryl does find a job because they are going to need it to pay the legal bills!

I DON’T HAVE A TREE!

WE WILL BE THERE…

      I had just gotten home and my phone was still in my purse when it rang at 3:44 pm yesterday afternoon. In a hurry to get it out and answer the call, I didn’t look at the number that was calling.
      An authoritative male voice said he was from (and he named a specific company which I don’t remember) Tree Company and they would be here tomorrow morning to cut down my tree.
     I said, “You have a wrong number.”
     He ignored that and said, “Let me check my work order. No, we will be there tomorrow morning to cut down that ugly tree.”
     I said, “I don’t have a tree. I did not call a tree company.”
     He said, “No, your neighbors called. They want to get rid of your ugly tree. They are paying for it.”
     I said again, “I don’t have a tree.”
     He said, “We will be there at 9:00 tomorrow morning to cut down that ugly tree.”
     I said, “I don’t have a tree. What address do you have?”
     He said, “We will be there tomorrow to get rid of that ugly tree.”
     I asked again, “What address do you have?”
     He said, “We will be there tomorrow morning at 9:00 o’clock to get rid of that ugly tree.” And he hung up.
     It was then that I looked at the number and saw the 717 area code and became totally suspicious. I immediately put it into a reverse lookup and there it was – Lancaster County Motors, Inc. I simply could not believe it.
     Is it possible someone spoofed their number? Possibly – but who and why? And the juvenile nature of the call seemed to fit with the nature of the lawsuit. And he seemed to be enjoying himself. Unbelievable! I will let the attorney for the plaintiff know. 

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“WE’LL BE THERE TOMORROW
TO GET RID OF THAT TREE!”

     It was a stupid, childish prank call that I received from Lancaster County Motors, Inc. yesterday afternoon. It was about a tree – a tree that I don’t have!
     But for a couple of seconds he had me going. Because the situation sounded “familiar.” The above is my neighbor’s huge, horrible, nasty holly tree (with the very sharp leaves) rubbing all up against and damaging my house and roof this summer. And I had to contract and pay to get that sucker trimmed – and it wasn’t cheap.
     Okay, that’s off my chest – sort of. A woman actually went before Lancaster City Council several months ago to complain that she had to pay to have her neighbor’s tree that was hanging over her yard trimmed and she didn’t think it was fair. Neither do I! But city council can’t change that – the state should change the law! There is no reason we should have to pay for someone else’s tree!
     Now it’s off my chest and I’ll come back to the prank call shortly.

*** BREAKING NEWS *** “EVENTS THAT SHAPE LIFE”

     I just received a threatening and harassing phone call from Lancaster County Motors, Inc. (717) 569-4514 at 3:44 pm! Unbelievable!

YOU ARE A LIAR, TOM!

     Part of an ad LNP ran for themselves this summer. Tom Murse, LNP Managing Editor.

The shocking sexual harassment lawsuit filed in federal court this Tuesday (click here).

      Where is LNP’s coverage? Why are they ignoring this shocking lawsuit? Shouldn’t the public know? Stay informed – read LIP News! You are a liar, Tom Murse!
Please see the posts below for the lawsuit on this site and check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – THE DNA TECHNOLOGY IS HERE!

WOULD YOU BUY A
CAR FROM THESE MEN?

Clark Adams, Chief Operating Officer, left, and Frank Nolt, President of Lancaster County Motors, Inc.

     The “Relief Requested” in Katie Bacon’s federal lawsuit against Lancaster County Motors, Inc. is below. There will be more tomorrow.

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**   The continuation of the “Operative Facts” portion of Katie Bacon’s federal lawsuit against Lancaster County Motors, Inc. is below (please see yesterday’s post immediately below for the beginning).

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*     I sent an email through their website this morning asking if they have any comment on the federal lawsuit (see yesterday’s post). I’m waiting!

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SOLVE MURDERS!

(Click here)

     It is great that they can solve a 12-year-old burglary with DNA. It is past time to start solving all of the unsolved murders with DNA!
Please check back later today when there will also be more on yesterday’s shocking sexual harassment lawsuit.

*** BREAKING NEWS *** – * – *** BREAKING NEWS *** USE OF FORCE

—  I am not sure there is anything that can prepare you for opening a complaint in a lawsuit and reading what is below. LIP News will be back tomorrow. —

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

SHOCKING SEXUAL
HARASSMENT LAWSUIT

     The below is the beginning of a shocking lawsuit filed in Federal Court yesterday: Katie Bacon v. Lancaster County Motors, Inc. of East Petersburg.

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UPDATE WITH TEETH!

UPDATE…..Charlie’s badge has been turned in!!! He was so happy that he was smiling from ear to ear! Thanks to everyone for spreading the word.
Posted on the Lancaster City Police Department Facebook page (see yesterday’s post here).
     Yikes!

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

75% REDUCTION!

     “The Use of Force policy has been in effect since August 1st.
     …While we just have two months of data thus far, we have seen a reduction in about 75 percent in those two months regarding use of force incidents in the city.”
Mayor Danene Sorace in her Report of the Mayor last night to city council (click here to view the entire meeting).

AFTERNOON UPDATE – A MAN OF HIS WORD?

Stuhldreher

      This is simply unacceptable and downright ridiculous reporting by Tim Stuhldreher and his LNP editors. What business do they have in Reading? I’ve been asking this question since March of last year and no one has answered it (click here):

$14,900 MONTHLY!

     Last spring, when MAW began rolling out service to business and residential customers, the city loaned it $1.5 million for startup costs.
     The first payment was due this month; It was received Thursday, city business administrator Patrick Hopkins confirmed.
     The monthly installments of just over $14,900 are to continue over the next seven years. Asked if MAW will be able to make the payments, Wiczkowski said: “Absolutely.”
From the September 16th LNP article (under the sidebar), “Some LanCity Connect customers lose service as PPL removes ‘unauthorized’ equipment,” (click here).
     LIP News will put in monthly Right to Know requests to make sure the city receives the payments.
Please check back later today.   

AFTERNOON UPDATE – BLATANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST!

LNP: UNETHICAL AGAIN!

    

(Click here for the above debate story, Barbara Hough Roda)

 

     “It will be moderated by Barbara Hough Roda, community liaison for LNP and LancasterOnline, and Tom Baldrige, president and CEO of the Lancaster Chamber.”

     Barbara Hough Roda should not be moderating this debate! Lloyd Smucker wrote the CRIZ specifically for LNP to give them millions of your dollars for their Marriott Hotel expansion. Beverly (Peggy) Steinman, LNP’s owner, has given Smucker thousands and thousands of dollars for his campaigns.

     This is another travesty from LNP!

Please check back later today.

* I THINK I WANNA MARRY YOU!

A KNOTTY SECRET!

     We stayed here for my best friend’s wedding. First off, when I booked, I ended up having to book a second night. When I called to change my reservation, the girl was very rude on the phone, and claimed the wedding wasn’t blocked off for Friday, just Saturday. So I would have to pay full price. When I told the bride, she said that was not the case. The groom ended up calling to change my booking. The couple called everyone who had booked from the wedding to make sure they got the negotiated price. Apparently I wasn’t the only one they tried to make pay the non-wedding rate.
From a review of the Lancaster Marriott Hotel on Yelp from August of last year (click here).
     The “20/20” episode on the murder of Christy Mirack on Friday began by stating that Lancaster is a well known wedding destination.
     I learned this several years ago when I happened on Marriott reviews and everyone was there for a wedding. The convention center is not filling the Marriott and not the reason they are expanding – weddings are!
     Why is this such a secret?

“I’M NOT SURPRISED?”

NOBLE CHANGES HER TUNE

* AFTERNOON UPDATE – I STRUGGLED FOR YEARS WITH THIS”

*    Officials said Friday there was nothing criminal in the case of a Shultz Transportation bus driver dropping a Lampeter-Strasburg first-grader off at another student’s house to use the bathroom.
From this afternoon’s LNP story, “Police: Nothing criminal in bus driver dropping girl off at other student’s home to use bathroom,” (click here).       
     OMG! LNP reporter Lindsey Blest asked the police and the DA’s office if there was anything criminal in this stupid click-bait story LNP has kept as their lead story all day but won’t ask for an answer from DA Stedman about the murders of Chevalier and Myers?

SAME KILLER?

— WHY DON’T WE KNOW? —

     It has been a month since I mailed the letter to the PA Attorney General and the FBI requesting a simple DNA test be done to determine if Juanita Chevalier and Roxanne Myers have the same killer (the letter and original post are here).
     I will follow-up next week and I have to pinch myself that this is real and DA Stedman refuses to answer the question. Think about that while you watch “20/20” tonight. Unbelievable!

TAKING HOUSES!

***   On August 6th, I wrote about a lis pendens filing in Lancaster Common Pleas Court to take 10 properties associated with Worley & Obetz in their bankruptcy (see below and click here for the original). 
      On September 10th, another lis pendens action was filed to take the personal homes of Jeffrey and Julie Lyons, Karen and Douglas Connelly and Judy Avilez (see the entry immediately below on this post).
     Jeffrey Lyons and Karen Connelly are scheduled to have their preliminary hearings on their criminal charges this Tuesday, October 9th, at 1:30 pm before District Judge Edward Tobin.

THEY WANT HER HOUSE!

**   Judy Avilez, who replaced Connelly as company controller in January 2016 and was trained by her, told investigators that Connelly told her to continue paying Lyons’ credit card debts, Stedman said.
      According to the criminal complaint, Connelly “told her about a ‘package deal’ in which Lyons was permitted to submit his personal credit card payment stubs for full payment using company funds.”
     Avilez initially paid Lyons’ debts before approaching police, Stedman said. She does not face any criminal charges.
     “We have no evidence that anyone else was involved” in making illegal payments, he said.
From the LNP article, “Worley & Obetz’s former CEO, controller charged with using company funds to pay $1M in personal credit card debt,” (click here).
     Avilez may not be facing criminal charges but the bankruptcy court wants her house! In a lis pendens court filing in Lancaster Common Pleas Court on September 10th, the court wants to take her Elizabethtown home (see below). Why? What is going on? 

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STEDMAN NOT ON BALLOT

*    While on the topic of the Christy Mirack murder and District Attorney Craig Stedman, there have been comments into this site stating Stedman will be on November’s ballot to be a judge. That is not correct.
     There are no judges statewide on the ballot this November and the vacancy created by Judge Hoberg’s retirement will not be filled until the 2019 election when the judge’s seat, the District Attorney’s Office and all three Lancaster County Commissioners will be on the ballot among other offices.
     Randall Wenger, Clerk of Elections, explained by phone this morning that those positions are only on the ballot in municipal election years and the next one will be in 2019.
     To view a sample of your November ballot click here and select your school district.

20/20 TONIGHT

     “I told the police what I saw, but I’ve never told anybody else what I walked in on,” Goodman [Harry Goodman, the principal at Christy Mirack’s elementary school] said. “I struggled for years with this. Screaming, nightmares.”

Click here for the above ABC news story and here for the accompanying story, “How DNA and genetic genealogy are becoming ‘major’ game-changers in decades-old cold cases.”

AFTERNOON UPDATE – INCREDIBLE LNP HYPOCRISY!

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*    To read the full NewsLanc article – click here. City Councilwoman Janet Diaz live-streamed last night’s Police Use of Force meeting and you can watch it on her Facebook page – click here.

& BEST IN U.S.?

     I am having internet connection problems this morning. But coming later today, these stories!

AFTERNOON UPDATE – DISCRIMINATION?

     Important Meeting tonight from 6:30 to 8:30 in City Hall (click here for the Facebook page for the event).

***  Apparently Randy Patterson decided by himself in July that there would be no more food carts. Why? Did it apply to everyone? Who gave him the authority?

**   LIP News has exclusively obtained the below recent Attorney – Client Agreement. The names have been redacted at this time.

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*  You would think Randy would have more important things to worry about! Like that $1.5 million dollar loan the city gave to MAW Communications that will never be paid back!

PATTERSON LIES AGAIN!

     “There are no other permitted carts out there,” Randy Patterson, director of economic development and neighborhood revitalization, told City Council at Monday’s committee meeting.
     “It makes no sense to me to have a city ordinance to address a single cart in a single location,” he said.
     City Council concurred, and gave Patterson the go-ahead to draft an ordinance that would eliminate the food cart ordinance for downtown.
From today’s LNP article, “Lancaster city looks to eliminate little-used downtown food cart permits,” (click here).
     Really, Randy? Suddenly you are worried about an ordinance that you claim no one is using? Does it have anything to do with this video and recent developments?

Please check back later today.

UPDATE – ** – * ARE THEY SERIOUS?

     The Caucus will continue and will now also be offered as a digital, subscription edition (click here).  What a disgrace! There will be more tomorrow.

**   The LNP article, “LNP, Philadelphia Inquirer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, team up to cover Pennsylvania state government,” is now online – click here.

The Money Man!

*   Speaking of “investigative reporting,” there was a long city council committee meeting last night (you can watch it here). And as always, LNP reporter Tim Stuhldreher had lots of questions. Oh, this man is always asking about the money!
     And yet, he couldn’t figure out that MAW Communications owns a building valued at $89,000 in Reading and Lancaster City gave them a loan for $1.5 million dollars! Amazing!
     A review of his latest article and LNP’s editorial about MAW Communications/LanCity Connect is coming!

IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND!

A front page headline in today’s LNP print edition.

    You have to be an investigative reporter to try and understand this article (not currently online that I could find). Will the Caucus still exist? I honestly don’t know! There is also talk of “Spotlight PA” and the “PA Post.”
     I will read this about fifteen more times and see if I can figure it out! When it goes online I will link and maybe you can help me out! Yikes!
Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE ** – * WHERE IS LNP?

  —  To Be Continued tomorrow. —

A COMPLETE SHAM!

      Brett Hambright, spokesman for District Attorney Craig Stedman, has been tweeting today about a ceremony at LGH this morning about domestic violence. In the above he quotes DA Craig Stedman and Lancaster City Police Chief Jarrad Berkihiser as follows:
—    Stedman: Children in domestic violence settings are forgotten victims. “What they see, what they hear” have ‘profound effect.’
— Berkihiser: Domestic violence, unfortunately, “still widely accepted” in our communities.
     That’s touching, guys. Why didn’t either of you speak up about former Police Chief Keith Sadler whose ex-wife has written a book stating he beat her for years?
     And the way they got away with it: Because LNP decided to use their extreme power as the only news source in Lancaster County to withhold that information from the public so as not to embarrass Mayor Gray who was supporting and shoveling them money for their convention center/hotel. Unbelievable – but true!

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**  On the same Sunday night, September 16th, that a Lancaster City Police Officer shot and killed Ricardo Avenia, there was another shooting (click here for the police press release a portion of which is below):
     On Sunday 16 September 2018 at approximately 2241 hrs. Officers from Lancaster City and assisting Police agencies from Lancaster County responded to the 500 blk. Green St. for a report of a shooting. 
     Upon arrival, Officers found a male with a gunshot wound to the area of his neck/ face. The victim was conscious and walking and held a towel on the injury. The male was transported to a local hospital for treatment. The injury does not appear to be life threatening. 
     While clearly overshadowed by the police involved shooting, there has not been another word about this! Where does the investigation stand? What is the man’s condition today?

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“CRITICAL BUT STABLE”

*    The first arriving Officer located a male who was walking toward the Police cruiser. The male, a 24 year old resident of Lancaster City, was holding a tee shirt to his neck and was bleeding from a gun shot wound to his neck. 
From the police press release just issued (click here).

13-YEAR-OLD SHOT?

Click here for the Facebook page. 

     WGAL has a brief piece up on the shooting last evening at about 6:30 pm at Manor and Old Dorwart Streets (click here).
Please check back later today.

AN INJUDICIOUS MAN

“FAILED THE TEST”

This New York Times columnist nails it (click here).

AFTERNOON UPDATE – A DISGRACE TO ALL WOMEN!

IT’S NOT GROWTH!

*    A tweet by former LNP sports editor and now deputy opinion editor(!) Chris Otto several days ago.

     I did not see Otto respond to the question, but maybe it’s because to work at racist LNP, you also have to throw all the journalism principles and ethics you ever learned out the window! Their prior digital editor and social media manager both went to the Reading Eagle. And with their new paywall, it is surely not growth!

A PROVEN LIAR!

– NOT A MENTION OF RACE!

— OMG! This is a sob fest! —

— Watching Brett Kavanaugh this afternoon. —

KEEP ON TAKING VIDEOS!

From today’s LNP article titled online, “Q&A: Lancaster police chief discusses community relations after fatal officer-involved shooting,” (click here).    

     Videos have caught your police acting very, very badly in the last several months. What you see in those Facebook live videos is the truth.
Please check back later today.

[Editor’s note: This post has been edited to make the quote larger and more readable.]

* AFTERNOON UPDATE – “MORNING, DAY AND NIGHT”

*    When is a bed & breakfast actually a motel? The county lists their second structure as a motel!

MAYBE HE WAS HIGH?

     If I were a business owner in Lancaster County I would not go before Lancaster city council and the mayor (and the world through the internet) and state that I use marijuana morning day and night. Nope. Not wise. It is still not legal. Maybe he was high? Are the Amish growing marijuana in Bird in Hand?

**   Wade McFarland and his wife own Greystone Manor Bed & Breakfast in Bird in Hand (click here).

“I’M A POTHEAD“

McFarland addressing city council last night.

*    The opening remarks of a commenter’s statement to city council last night (please note the spelling of his name is based on his pronunciation and may not be correct).
     Wade McFarland – Old Philadelphia Pike. I just want to say I appreciate what you all are doing here as far as hopefully with a yay vote and moving the ordinance forward and passing it tonight. I think it’s courageous of you to do this.
     I’m a pothead. I use marijuana morning day and night. I’m a family man. I have three kids and a businessman – self-employed – so I’m not your typical marijuana user or I don’t look like it anyway maybe – but I think this – it will definitely be the right step forward and if I could plant a seed of courage in any of you I think maybe the best way to legislate cannabis would be not at all.

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DIAZ SAYS “NO!”

     There was no question how city council was going to vote last night on the marijuana ordinance (click here to watch the entire meeting). As soon as it was introduced about a month ago you knew it was going to pass. If you watch enough of these meetings you know you will hear “aye, aye, and aye” over and over again.

Diaz

     Last night the only city council member to say “no” was Janet Diaz. This seemed to catch city clerk Bernard Harris so off guard that it took several seconds for him to recover.
     I have some questions about this ordinance – so you can have  an ounce of marijuana – but where do you buy it? How do you buy it? What about the seller?
     And in an interesting twist, a commenter last night who stated he is a father of three went on to say he uses marijuana “morning, day and night.” Hmmm… Where does he get his marijuana? Does he have more than an ounce at any one time? Is he an addict?
Please check back later today.

* WHO REALLY WROTE IT?

—  I have been watching Cosby coverage all afternoon. LIP News will be back tomorrow.  —

NAME GAMES?

     Why does LNP reporter Tom Knapp have a byline on this story (click here)? Who actually wrote it and what is missing from “his” story?
     And LNP seems to be having trouble with basic bylines to begin with. The story featured on this site yesterday has a byline of Jeff Hawkes on Lancaster Online (see below). But in this morning’s print edition, the exact same story has a byline of Heather Stauffer (also see below). So who actually wrote it and why doesn’t LNP know?    

Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – A LOT OF ADVERTISING REVENUE FOR LNP?

YOU’RE AT LNP!

          Editor Tom Murse        Reporter Jeff Hawkes

—  Tom, Jeff here.
—  What can I do for you, Jeff?
—  Can I state that the man whose body was found was arrested in a prostitution sting in July? We wrote about it and his picture was in the paper and online.
—  No, Jeff. We’ve talked about this. The District Attorney’s office has not stated that so we cannot publish it.
—  But it’s public information, Tom! Anyone can google his name and find it. And a well known and respected citizen did just that and published a link to it under my story! And a picture might jog someone’s memory!
—  Jeff, you know we have a deal with the DA’s office. We don’t print it until they tell us to! That’s the way LNP works! Forget about good journalism and the whole watchdog thing! You’re at LNP, dammit! We control this town because we control the news the public gets! Never forget that!

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****  Someone finally posted the link on Lancaster Online – the man found dead Saturday morning by the New Danville Pike, Ronel Villanueva-Mejias, was arrested in a prostitution sting in July of this year (click here). He also pleaded guilty to drug charges last year.

Ronel Villanueva-Mejias

***  9:34 am –  CBS 21 is live in the courthouse awaiting the arrival of Bill Cosby for his sentencing (click here).

**   I think this entry from the Columbia Borough Police Department on CrimeWatch is very interesting considering the police shooting death involving domestic violence and a gun in Lancaster last Sunday night (click here):

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*     Sigh. And then LNP reporter Tom Knapp has to chime in with this:
      You’re right, Stan, it’s a grocery store. But people are happy and excited about something, and these days that’s a good thing to see. Even if it’s something comparatively minor.
      Oh, just shove it, Tom! I’m as happy and excited as can be on this rainy Monday without Wegmans. This week is going to be chock full of very important news! Wow!

DANCING IN THE AISLES?

A headline in today’s LNP print edition on page A-3 about yesterday’s opening of Wegmans.

      No, it’s a grocery story. As a commenter stated under the online article (click here): 
     Seriously. Wegmans was their lead front page story both Saturday and Sunday. Enough!
Please check back later today.

** – * A TALK AT THE HAMILTON CLUB…

**   Here comes super serial stalker Steve Markle. He thinks he’s so clever using duckduckgo! Does Cheryl Dum Markle know how much time he spends on my site?
      What insult will he throw at me today? In one comment he called me a “c*nt hag.” How nice. Does he call Cheryl a “c*nt hag?” Does he refer to all females as “c*nt hags?” What a pig!

*    This is going to be quite a week for women: Bill Cosby is scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow and Christine Blasey Ford is tentatively scheduled to testify about her alleged sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on Thursday. What a week!

WERE BLACKS PERMITTED?

     In the northern Aegean Sea sits a sliver of land where gilded chandeliers hang in sanctuaries and ornate frescos line the walls. It is a land of monks and pilgrims. And it is a locale — perhaps the largest such slice of land in the world — where women are not permitted.
The opening sentences to today’s LNP article, “Lancaster attorney visits a monastic state where the outside world ceases to exist,” (click here).
     “Women are not permitted?” I’m done with that story! Seriously? 
Please check back later today.

A NEW LIP SERIES…

DOES CHERYL KNOW?

Cheryl Dum (actual maiden name) Markle from her Instagram account (click here).

AFTERNOON UPDATE – * FRIDAY FUN!

GETTING TO
THE NITTY-GRITTY

     The latest in William Murry’s lawsuit against LNP is below.
     Please note that according to Wikipedia (and confirmed with other legal dictionaries) the meaning of in camera as used in this order is:
     “In camera  is a legal term that means in private. The same meaning is sometimes expressed in the English equivalent: in chambers. Generally, in-camera describes court cases, parts of it, or process where the public and press are not allowed to observe the procedure or process.”

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*    As reported here earlier, LNP’s digital manager and former “Food Dude,” Dustin Leed, jumped ship to the Reading Eagle as LNP’s paywall came in. Not only that, but he is raiding the LNP newsroom! Yes, he took LNP’s prior social media manager, Andrea Gillhoolley, with him! I wonder if LNP regrets buying him that going away cake?

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THE ELUSIVE ALBATWITCH!

     To help you calm down, I encourage you to watch the video about the crypto-creature that steals apples along the Susquehanna River! When I was a Scout at good old Camp Chiquetan, we actually went on an elbadritch hunt (as it was spelled back then). 
Part of a comment into this site from barry in winnipeg.
     Thanks, Barry. I immediately felt better and while LNP does have a video about the albatwitch (as it is spelled now), I beat them to it last October! The link to the original is here and the link to the wonderful Columbia Spy story is here!

Please check back later today.

THE ENTIRE LNP EDITORIAL BOARD…

SHOULD RESIGN!

— DESPICABLE LIARS! —

    From today’s LNP editorial, “On domestic violence, a police-involved shooting and our response as a community,” (click here).       

          Oh, I don’t believe you LNP editorial board – why not make the domestic abuser the Chief of Police?

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Click here for the original of the above from July 29, 2012 and please check back later today.

* AFTERNOON UPDATE – DID MACHO HAVE TO DIE?

*    Sunday’s fatal police-involved shooting in southeast Lancaster doesn’t have to be a setback for police-community relations, but an opportunity for the city to continue to work on those relationships, a city spokesman said Wednesday.
The opening sentence to LNP’s late afternoon article by Lindsey Blest that is now the lead story on their website, “Lancaster mayor’s office addresses community tension after police-involved shooting,” (click here).
     Who is the city spokesman, Lindsey? You quote Chief of Staff Matt Johnson repeatedly throughout the article. Was it him or someone else and why don’t you tell us who said it? This is unacceptable journalism! Identify the “spokesman” that you open your blatantly slanted story with!

“EXPERIENCED
AN OCCUPATION!”

     A commenter sent a link to a very strong piece by Kevin Ressler in The Mennonite (the beginning is immediately below and click here for his entire post). Please take the time to read it and it’s not too early to say, “Kevin Ressler for Mayor!”
     Below that is a notice from the City of Lancaster for a meeting for input on the police use of  force (click here for the Facebook event page). It is on Wednesday, October 3rd from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in city hall. Also included is an excellent comment from a city resident.

[Editor’s note: There is an LNP editorial about MAW and LanCity Connect today (click here) and of course there is Sunday’s article as well. I’m coming to it!]

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POLICE BRUTALITY?

     The girlfriend of Ricardo Avenia (“Macho”) who was shot and killed by police on Sunday took to social media last evening to tell her side.