— Taking a break this afternoon. —
As a trial nears in a landmark fair funding case, Republican legislative leaders want to block evidence that Pennsylvania’s Black and Hispanic students fare worse on traditional measures of academic achievement than their white peers.
At a Wednesday hearing, attorneys for House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Senate President Jake Corman told Commonwealth Court Judge Renée Cohn Jubilirer that the evidence is irrelevant because the plaintiffs in the case are not alleging intentional racial discrimination.
(Click here to read the entire article that begins above.)
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From today’s LNP article, “Ronks family has long history of animal abuse, from selling a rabid puppy to terrible kennel conditions,” (click here).
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At the very end of yesterday’s press conference on the death of baby “Mary Anne” in 2007, a reporter asked the following question:
* As noted on this site last week, Kristal Narkiewicz has issued a Writ of Summons against LNP Media Group (see to the left and the original article is here).
Patrick Hopkins was doing obscure money splaining all evening. Remember this is from the man who said it wasn’t “risky” to loan MAW $1,500,000! There will be more on that coming later today.
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When will the Lancaster Police Chief and Mayor Sorace address all of the unsolved murders in Lancaster? When will the killer of 83-year-old Erma Kaylor have their DNA sent to Parabon? What is taking so long? Where is District Attorney Heather Adams?
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OMG! Thank you to an emailer today. The below is in LNP’s print edition today, in Section I: Real Estate, page I4. That’s a lot of money even for a Lancaster County Judge who used to be the District Attorney!
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So LNP Executive Editor Tom Murse had correspondent Rebecca Logan research and write a story ahead of last night’s city council meeting and in the five minutes it took to pass it, Murse ran the story as if that was their coverage of the whole meeting. Just resign, Murse! You are so transparent and an absolute disgrace to journalism.
What a night! It was a short session of city council but it was intense. Tony Dastra went after Mayor Sorace. A member of the public went big time after council president Ismail Smith-Wade-El as did council member Janet Diaz! And someone’s phone kept going off and I think that was also Smith-Wade-El. Wow!
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When they found her body, lots of commenters on LNP’s Facebook page said that maybe her alleged killer, Justo Smoker, told the authorities where to find her body, possibly to take the death penalty off the table. Again, from the article (click here):
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Under financing for the hotel expansion, base rent payment will go up by $150,000 a year, starting in 2017, and increase by 3 percent each year through 2029.
The agreement Council approved also calls for a share in profits from the new hotel, as with the existing hotel. Those payments and profit sharing more than make up for what the hotel would pay if it were taxable, according to city officials.
Gray said he’s talked to the School District of Lancaster about perhaps splitting the profit sharing. While details haven’t been worked out, he said he was thinking the split would be close to half. Council would have to approve such a deal.
From the October 12, 2016 LNP article, “Lancaster City Council approves $30M Marriott hotel expansion,” (click here).
Can we expect LNP to report accurately whether these payments have been made? Of course not. That’s why LNP is breaking every journalism code of ethics in this country.
