IN A MINORITIES ARE THE MAJORITY CITY!

ABSOLUTE HYPOCRISY
AND BLATANT RACISM!

      LNP’s big front page headline in this morning’s print edition.

     Isn’t that special? Remember when the fire alarms went off in the LNP offices in October of 2014 and the LNP staff came spilling out into Penn Square (click here for the original on this site)?
     Why won’t anyone in power in Lancaster – the mayor, the city council members, the county commissioners, the Lancaster City Human Relations Commission, etc. – step up and say this is wrong? This is unacceptable! It is 2017 and we will not allow this in our community?

Please check back later today.

LNP: IGNORING AN IMPORTANT, LOCAL BOOK!

GOOD RATS AND BAD?

      Today, LNP decides to tell us what “important” people in Lancaster County are going to read this summer! Let me be very clear: I don’t give a rat’s butt what Mayor Gray is going to read (but it should clearly involve telling the truth and ethics) but I do want to read, “This Is the Rat Speaking!” And why has this book by a local author on a very local and important topic not been mentioned by LNP?
     I have ordered it and am anxiously awaiting my copy! It has been theorized and stated that the rise of the “Black Power” movement is when the Steinmans, the owners of LNP said, “Not in our town!” and made sure that pervasive racism existed in all aspects of everyone’s lives in Lancaster County until this very day.  I wonder if that’s why they haven’t mentioned it? 1969 is also the year my father, who was a professor at F&M, and others founded and began publishing the Lancaster Independent Press.
      From the opening chapter (click here for the book on Amazon):

AFTERNOON UPDATE – TWO WHEELING IT?

JUSTICE FOR LILLY!

     I discovered several things today:
—  the below filmmaker who is quite good.
—  he also has a video on panhandlers in Lancaster that is excellent (click here).
—  But what shook me to my core, is the man holding the sign very early in the below video (beginning at .56 seconds in). He is talking about Lydia (Lilly) Colon Torres. There is a man who holds a sign to remind us of Lydia Colon Torres! She was murdered in September of 2009 and her body was found in the Susquehanna River on October 1, 2009.
      She doesn’t even make the list of the unsolved murders in Lancaster County (click here for the LNP piece) – but she sure as hell should and I will follow-up to see where her case stands. This brought tears to my eyes because I covered her case somewhat extensively back then. I spoke to family members and I spoke to Assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen who was handling her case and lied to me.  And this injustice and her family’s pain has been buried for years without a word about her except for this man who holds a sign to remind us of her case and the justice she deserves and to ask for peace.

WHILE THE STREETS
ARE IN TERRIBLE SHAPE!

(Click here for the LNP story.)

     It would be wonderful if the city could announce they have solved some of the twenty unsolved murders under Mayor Gray, but bikes will have to do?
     So, somebody attending a big Lancaster City convention can come in by train, pick up a bike and pedal to the Marriott? Oh, boy!
Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE ** – * AND REESE & CROOKS!

THE STATE
MUST INVESTIGATE!

(Click here to read the whole piece).

     Thank you, Robert Field of NewsLanc.com! The arrogance, lack of ethics and flat-out illegal operations of the people in the Gray administration and on city council is shocking and people find it hard to believe. That’s because LNP doesn’t tell them about it, of course, because that is how they are trying to get millions of dollars they should not receive.
     I have made complaints to the state and will be making more. It is good to see that despite moving to New York City, Robert is still doing good work. There are only a very few news outlets that are trying to let the public know the truth about the huge, powerful, corrupt, greedy and racist LNP!

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**   The second police press release on the attack and the dog and where it is quarantined is here. At the end of her report from the scene on June 20th, Katelyn Smith of WGAL says this about the dog (click here):
     …not here in the neighborhood anymore.

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*    Posted on Lancaster Online’s Facebook page under the updated story, “Police: Dog that attacked 2 kids in minivan outside Lancaster home will be euthanized,” (click here). 

     I couldn’t agree more. And in fact, Katelyn Smith of WGAL indicated in her report several days ago that the dog was no longer in the neighborhood. I don’t know where or from whom she got that information but scarily the dog is still in the neighborhood according to police.

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ABSOLUTELY HORRIFYING!

     I hope there is follow up to the article and that the dog will be put down or remain in quarantine. I live in the neighborhood just a few blocks away and this is horrifying. I am already afraid to simply walk by a leashed pit bull while pushing my daughter in her stroller and reading this gives me fear to walk outside with her at all.
Posted on Lancaster Online under the LNP story, “2 Lancaster children in ‘serious but stable’ condition after loose dog attacks them in their minivan,” (click here).
     Where is the follow-up to this terrible story? How are the children? Where is the dog and will the owner be charged?
     LNP lists two reporter’s bylines with the story; Lindsey Blest, who re-wrote the first police press release and Tom Knapp, who re-wrote the one police update to this story. That is the only thing LNP has done on this entire story. At least WGAL and FOX43 went to the scene and interviewed witnesses and informed the public how truly awful this attack was.
      But the public has a right and a need to know more information!
CHARGE HIM!
     Fourth and finally, Defendant Reese has either abandoned his office as a matter of fact and law, or he is near-daily committing a crime.
From the Emergency Motion for Preliminary Injunction filed by State Senators Scott Martin and Ryan Aument against Sheriff Mark Reese (click here and also see below). LNP has this as an “insider” story: ” Senators attempt to stop biweekly payments of $4K to Lancaster County sheriff accused of sexual harassment,” (click here).
     If he is committing a crime, why hasn’t he been charged? Charge him! Charge him daily! From the Motion:

 WORLD’S BIGGEST CROOK?
    On a lighter note this morning, although not light on your pocketbook, I was shocked to see a full page ad in today’s LNP print edition for “My Pillow.” And LNP also has ads running on their website. Please, please read the reviews and the lawsuits against this company before you spend $50.00 for a pillow! This guy has to be the world’s biggest crook! Simply amazing!

AFTERNOON UPDATE – MOTION TO COMPEL * PIT NUTTERS!

BARK AT THE MOON
OR GET MENTAL HELP?

***  Sometimes the internet scares and amazes me. Working on my afternoon post, I put “ESABATM” into google again so I could reference its meaning (I had looked it up before I wrote this morning’s piece). And right there on the first page of results was this site – which is amazing in less than seven hours and also means not too many people use ESABATM! :

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**   There are developments in former Manheim Township school board president William Murry’s lawsuit against LNP. There is this from his “Motion to Compel Discovery” regarding the illegal recording of a board meeting obtained by LNP.

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*   From DogsBite.org (click here).

& ESABATM?

     I am not going to deal with these insane “pit nutters,” but going on the Lancaster City Police Facebook page and showing your total ignorance does not help your cause!

     Oh, and what does “ESABATM” stand for? Someone used that on me yesterday and I had to look it up. Nice!
Please check back later today.

*** BREAKING *** – * UPDATE ** – * GREAT POLITICAL THEATER!

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OVERSTEPPED HIS BOUNDS!

Posted on Lancaster Online by the current Manheim Township school board president and apparently also signed by school board member Steve Grosh under the LNP story, “AG: Manheim Township school board wasted taxpayer money, operated in secrecy in former superintendent’s early termination,” (click here).

 

DePasquale

     Yes, it was great political theater and I wonder what job Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale has his sights on next – the governor’s office? “That’s a joke” and “Are you guys nuts?” That’s what this professional says whose job was to audit the district? And he said it was his “G-rated version.” Cute?

     Will this affect former board president William Murry’s lawsuit against LNP? LNP only mentions Murry once in the article – saying he did not return a request for a comment. How different from their front page editorials calling for Murry to resign! And of course, there is the illegal recording that we still don’t know who made and whether LNP solicited it.

Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – BY LANCASTER AUTHOR TODD M. MEALY

UNAWARE OR
SUBVERSION?

STUDENT UPRISING AT F&M

GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE!

IGNORED BY THE CITY,
THE SOUTHWEST ROCKS IT!

(From the front page of today’s Sunday News – click here and note that online this is an “insider” story). 

     Finally there is some really good news for Lancaster! And even though LNP reporter Susan Baldrige quotes Mayor Gray in her sixth paragraph into the story, neither he nor Baldrige, had anything to do with this!

AFTERNOON UPDATE – *** BREAKING *** * TRESPASS & HARASSMENT!

HOW WILL LNP EXPLAIN?

      Just a quick note this afternoon: I was sent the Manor Township Police report very early this morning (thank you). As I stated, I saw it happened on the 16th and assumed it was yesterday. It wasn’t until I was speaking with Ben that I realized the incident happened in May but was just reported by the police yesterday.
     And I was struck by what Ben said about LNP refusing to cover any of it. They do that with so many important, significant stories that the public should absolutely know about. But if LNP doesn’t tell the public – then who will?
     They protect these public officials and the officials do them favors in return. Mayor Gray and Lloyd Smucker are the most recent examples of that having written legislation to specifically give LNP millions of more public dollars (the CRIZ).
     This has been going on for years but District Attorney Craig Stedman running to be a Superior Court Judge may be the beginning of their downfall. Facts about certain cases that LNP blatantly ignored or lied about are sure to come up during the election. How will LNP explain that?
GRAY’S “LEGACY?”
     Days after Tuesday’s city council meeting, LNP reported what I noted on this site about Mayor Gray and his “legacy.” Oh, there will be much more coming on this site about this! The below screenshot is from today’s print edition and they cleaned up the grammar in the online version (click here):

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—  The below is one of several videos on DaddyJustice.com on Kelly Ream (click here to view). Ben said this morning that LNP has refused to cover any aspect of this case and the scandal with the Southern Regional Police Department.

*** UPDATE — I spoke with Ben Vonderhiede this morning by phone. He went to interview Kelly Ream at her home and she called the police. Ben has done multiple pieces on Ream on his website (click here). He said he has been working for months on an investigation into fraud in the state police pension fund.
     He also makes numerous allegations against Ream in his videos. This is a developing story.

[Editor’s note: When this story was first was posted this morning I said this happened yesterday. I saw the date and not the month and I apologize for the error and it has been corrected. This happened in May and was just posted by the Manor Township Police yesterday. Ben said this morning he was not even aware that charges had been filed.]

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*    I ran into Ben in the Lancaster County Courthouse when I was covering the Ray Corll trial. He did not disappoint! He insulted Corll’s defense attorney Heidi Eakin to her face; loudly proclaimed that Corll had been a bad cop for years so Corll’s family who were sitting right up the hall could hear it and also said he probably beats his wife and discussed in very colorful language the shenanigans (affairs) going on in the District Attorney’s Office and more. 
     It was just a normal day for Ben!

WHAT DID YOU DO, BEN?

      Ben Vonderheide, owner of the website “Daddy Justice,” got into trouble in May in Manor Township (click here). What did you do now, Ben?
Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE *** – ** – * THE DOG’S TALE CONTINUES…

FREE IS JUST ANOTHER
WORD FOR YOU ARE PAYING!

(Click here)

     Tonight there is another “Concert on King” at the LNP studios. And when I click on the above “article,” there are two ads for LanCity Connect; one at the top of the page and one at the bottom (screenshots of them are posted below).
     So, let me get this straight: These concerts aren’t really free because your taxpayer money is going to LNP to “sponsor” them!
     On top of all of the other millions the city has paid MAW Communications, they also loaned them $1.5 million. And within three months of city council passing the incredibly questionable loan, MAW Communications announced they were so deluged with requests for installations, that they were ceasing to install any more internet connections.
     And yet, your money is being used by the city and MAW to advertise with LNP with “high-tech” ads that state “Schedule your installation today” when they have stopped installations!
     And city council members and top members of Mayor’s Gray’s administration refuse to answer legitimate questions about how and why and how much of your money is being spent to advertise with LNP. That is a basic violation of the public’s right to know.
     This whole thing reeks of total corruption and needs to be investigated now!

OPEN AND SHUT?

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***  11:15 am – According to the police scanner this morning, a subject fired several shots at a victim who was apparently not hit, at Woodward and Christian Streets at about 10:25 am.
     Witnesses reported the suspect ran up Christian Street and police had identified him at Christian and Howard Avenue several minutes later.
     The map below is of the Lancaster Safety Coalition cameras. The inserted blue arrow is where the shooting occurred and the inserted black arrow is where he was last seen according to the scanner.
     It is not known at this time if an arrest has been made in this daylight shooting.

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

10:40 am —  The suspect is described as a light skinned black male wearing a red sweater who was just spotted by police at Christian and Howard Streets. Apparently he fired several shots. Intended victim apparently was not hit by any of the shots.

     Lancaster City Police are chasing a suspect who shot at a person at Christian and Woodward Streets this morning at about 10:25 am.

*   Click here for the police press release on last night’s shooting.

AS HUMAN LIVES
ARE ON THE LINE!

AFTERNOON UPDATE *** – ** – * EXTRAPOLATIONS?

KING OF THE PROM?

     Benchmark Construction was mentioned during Tuesday’s Poverty Commission update given to city council because Marcus Grimm of Benchmark heads their “Communications Action Team.” And back when the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry had their $225 a plate annual dinner and I mentioned someone compared it to a prom but I couldn’t remember who? It was Grimm (click here and see below)! Oh, what tangled webs the Lancaster white, elite and powerful weave!

MARK THIS!

***  Also during the Poverty Commission’s report at Tuesday’s city council meeting, Benchmark Construction was named and I have to go back and re-listen to the tape very carefully.
     Benchmark Construction is where city council woman and mayoral candidate Danene Sorace’s husband works. From the LNP “insider” article, “Analysis: Lancaster’s Democratic mayoral candidates spent $6.54 per vote in primary,” there is this (click here):
     She [Sorace] received 16 donations of $1,000 or more, by far the most among the three candidates. That includes $11,500 from a half-dozen donors affiliated with Benchmark Construction Co., the workplace of her husband, Christian Recknagel. Recknagel is credited with an in-kind contribution of $705 in scotch and cigars for a fundraiser, part of $1,192 in total in-kind donations.
     And Sorace’s top two donations at $2,500 each, were from the Chairman and the President of Benchmark Construction pictured above. This already has a certain strong stench to it. There will be much more to come.

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WHAT A LEGACY!

 **   In Tuesday’s city council meeting, Pat Brogan, Mayor Gray’s Chief  of Staff, said Gray wants the Poverty Commission to be his “legacy initiative.” You can’t make this stuff up!

LNP: TO THE DOGS AGAIN!

RISKY AS HELL!

AFTERNOON UPDATE – MASQUERADING AS THE PRESS!

“IT IS 2017!”

     If you get the chance, please watch last night’s city council meeting (click here). And thanks once again to Independent Mayoral candidate Tony Dastra for livestreaming them.

Danene Sorace

     At the end of the meeting, Danene Sorace declared June to be LGBT Pride month and members of council talked about it being 2017 and it’s unbelievable that people discriminate against people based on whom they choose to love.  And then there was the mayor and climate change and once again the year 2017 came up and they said everyone knows in 2017 that you leave the world a better place than you found it.

     And in the beginning of the meeting there was a report from the Poverty Commission and there was more talk of “One Good Job.”

     Yes, it is 2017, and what these “good and decent” city council members including mayoral candidate Danene Sorace, know is that LNP discriminates based on race in their hiring and they have done so for years. They will not give a minority “one good job!” It is another one of Lancaster County’s dirty little secrets – like all white juries.

     And the state makes it very clear that in order to receive public funds, companies cannot discriminate. They must be equal opportunity employers.

     And these supposedly moral and progressive city council members just ignore that fact and look the other way, because LNP has so much power as the monopoly news source, that no one will call them out for it and say, “No. It’s 2017 and every decent person knows that you don’t discriminate on the basis of someone’s skin color and no, we are not going to give you money or support your racist company in any way!”

    And on top of that, these moral and progressive city council members don’t understand the concept of conflict of interest or the state guidelines that say Thomas Baldrige, as a member of the CRIZ Authority Board, cannot vote to give his wife’s employer, LNP, millions of dollars of public money. It is the year 2017 and everyone but the CRIZ Board and the city council members understands that to be a blatant conflict of interest that is not ethical and is not permitted by state law.

     And yesterday, I replied to Pat Brogan (Mayor Gray’s Chief of Staff) and all the city council members in an email as follows:

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Pat,

 

I appreciate your replying for everyone but your answer is not satisfactory. LanCity Connect is a public-private partnership and therefore directly involves the City of Lancaster and decisions made by the people I have included in this email!

 

Again, I am asking, why the city (LancCity Connect) is “sponsoring” LNP concerts and the exact money amount involved in this sponsorship.

 

Thank you.

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There will be much more tomorrow.

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LIARS,
HYPOCRITES & THIEVES!

   

From left: LNP Executive Editor Barbara Hough Roda, Content Editor Tom Murse and Opinion Editor Suzanne Cassidy.

From NewsLanc.com (click here).

     No, they shouldn’t be tarred and feathered – they should go directly to jail! And if the liars, hypocrites and thieves on LNP’s editorial board continue to write about ethics and wasting taxpayer’s money, they do need to be tarred and feathered and run out of town!
Please check back later today.

— * YOU CAN’T MAKE THIS STUFF UP!

—  I am watching Attorney General Jeff Sessions testify before the Senate this afternoon. LIP News will be back tomorrow.

MORE THAN A “SNAG?”

LNP: SHOWING
ITS TRUE COLOR!

     LNP goes yellow this morning! How appropriate!

Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – STUHLDREHER GOES WACK! REALLY!

PLEASE, PLACE ME IN JAIL!

      On Saturday, I highlighted the above ridiculous sentence from the LNP article, “Caregiver charged with defrauding 85-year-old woman of over $19K,” (click here). Her docket does indeed read that her bail is unsecured.
     LNP has not even bothered to fix it despite comments under the article pointing out the glaring error. A commenter said:
     She isn’t in jail
     Another commented sarcastically that apparently she wanted to go to jail even though she could be free.
     It is a sad day when reporters and editors care so little about the basics and the facts and also care so little about the public they distribute obviously incorrect information to.
     LNP may not care about journalistic integrity but they sure do like their money! There will be more on MAW, LNP and LanCity Connect tomorrow.

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A HORRIFIC TRAGEDY

    

     On a second, tragic domestic violence story, the funerals for the Arnau family are scheduled for tomorrow. A GoFundMe page has been set up and the response has been wonderful (click here).

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ARREST THIS MAN!

       I want to cover a couple of other items today, and once again, because of the confines of the layout of this site – they have to go on top of one another!
     Remember this story from April 26, “Manheim Borough man with history of domestic violence against ‘Amish Mafia’ star wanted in new domestic violence incident,” (click here)? WGAL-TV reported at the time that Esther Schmucker was the victim again in his latest assault.

Esther Schmucker

     But Imir Williams has never been arrested, arraigned, jailed and had his bail set! Why not? He’s active on Facebook!  Ask the people who are posting on his page or ask Esther. And I don’t care if she doesn’t want to testify. The prosecution doesn’t need her! There are hospital records and according to the story noted above, he knocked her down while she was holding a child. Enough is enough! Arrest this man! He’s posting on Facebook like he’s not even wanted on an arrest warrant!
     And Esther, I know you’ve heard it a million times over – but for the sake of your children’s lives and your own life – leave this very disturbed and violent man once and for all! 

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***  Surprise – not! LNP has put the story online as an “insider” story – click here. 

Brogan

**   The bottom line, Brogan [Mayor Gray’s Chief of Staff, Pat Brogan] said, is that MAW is reworking its process and that customers who are hooked up are “very, very happy and satisfied.”

The last sentence in today’s article by Tim Stuhlderher.

     And according to Stuhlderher in one of his recent articles, the number of customers who are hooked up is “nearly 100,” (click here).

     $3.4 million for an internet hook-up for nearly 100? That is patently absurd and sickening!

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ABSOLUTE FRAUD
FROM MAW & LNP!

The headline on the front page of today’s LNP print edition (the article is not currently online).

Stuhldreher

     In his third article in a week, LNP “reporter” Tim Stuhldreher takes lying and deceit to a whole new level. This time he goes wack – that’s right – to Westminster, Maryland City Council President Dr. Robert Wack!
     I guess that’s because he can’t go to his favorite anymore – Christopher Mitchell, director of Community Broadband Networks, at the nonprofit Institute for Local Self-Reliance – whom he quoted in his last story (click here). You see, I picked up the phone last week and spoke at length with Christopher Mitchell in his Minnesota office.
      This is unconscionable, absolutely despicable reporting by Stuhldreher and LNP! There will be much more to come and I will link to this latest piece of deceptive, junk journalism when it goes online.

WHY IS MAW “SPONSORING” LNP CONCERTS?

GREEDY, CORRUPT & RACIST!

Peggy Steinman

—  This thing reeks of some type of sophisticated money laundering scheme.

—  I was thinking the same thing. Money loaned to MAW who then turns it over to the LNP to “sponsor” concerts.

These two comments in yesterday about MAW Communications, the City of Lancaster and LNP.

     I don’t put anything past the greedy, corrupt and racist Steinmans! Peggy Steinman is using her tax free foundation to give her employees bonuses. And she thinks she is so wealthy and powerful that she can get away with it!
     This has been going on for years in Lancaster County!

SHE IS NOT IN JAIL!

SLOPPY, SLOPPY REPORTING!

(Click here for the story including the above last sentence.)

     I realize that news organizations are doing away with copy editors, and editors for that matter, but come on! Konstantine Fekos has been a police reporter for almost a year at LNP! The woman charged in his story is not in jail because her bail is unsecured! This is basic, basic stuff and LNP has this as one of their top stories. Pathetic.
      Click here for more on Fekos on this site, “RUN AWAY NOW!,” and please check back later today. He should have taken my advice but now LNP may force him to run away – or do they even care? This is sloppy, sloppy reporting!

AFTERNOON UPDATE ** – * TELLING THE STORY…

LNP:  NOT TELLING THE
PUBLIC THE TRUTH –
 & GETTING PAID AS WELL!

DEMAND ANSWERS, LNP!

 From the LNP article, “Here’s a list of 41 unsolved homicides in Lancaster County since 1992,” (click here). 

Julio Garcia-Camacho

**  His family, who have been vocal, went below this article and stated Julio Garcia-Camacho died instantly and LNP and reporter Tom Knapp never corrected it. He died on June 13, the same Saturday night he was shot and in four days it will be two years that his murder has been unsolved and his killer still on the loose.
     This is one of the most shocking (if that is possible) of the unsolved murders because there are two coalition cameras very close to where he was killed and there remains a “mystery” (which absolutely should not be and the police need to tell the public now) about the involvement of a van which many witnesses recounted.
     The images from those cameras need to be released to the public now and the detectives and District Attorney Craig Stedman need to be grilled as to why this murder has not been solved and the images released. Do your job, LNP, and hold these public officials accountable, get a killer off the streets and bring some closure to this grieving family.

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POOR, POOR WOODY!

*     Yesteday, “Frank Lee” sent a comment into this site with a link to the ridiculous YouTube video, “This Lanc is Your Lanc.” Sure enough, this morning LNP goes up with a “serious” story (click here).
      LNP, maybe you could have your reporter, Lindsey Blest, who normally covers the police and crime, look into the twenty unsolved murders in the city under Mayor Gray? Unbelievable!

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IN BLACK & WHITE?

** – * LISTEN TO THE MUSIC?

**  Between Comey, phone calls and cooking, I ran out of time today. I will come back to this tomorrow.

SIMPLE?

From the LanCity Connect website (click here).

*   These are the LNP headlines to articles about MAW Communications, all by “reporter” Tim Stuhldreher beginning with February of this year:

—  February 16 – Phased rollout of LanCity Connect, Lancaster’s high-speed fiber network, to start this spring

—  March 1 – Here’s when you can hook up to LanCity Connect, the city’s new broadband network

—  March 1 – $3 million in funding proposed to underwrite residential rollout of LanCity Connect broadband

—  March 9 – Official: It’s not risky for city to put up money for LanCity Connect broadband, and here’s why

—  March 29 – Council approves financing for LanCity Connect broadband network

—  April 2 – LanCity Connect: Lancaster’s municipal broadband is the first of its kind in Pennsylvania

—  April 12 – Podcast explores LanCity Connect, Lancaster’s fiber-optic broadband network

—  May 2 – Phase 1 of residential deployment begins for LanCity Connect fiber-optic broadband

—  May 24 – Meet Frank Wiczkowski, founder of MAW Communications, the company behind LanCity Connect 

—  June 5 – LanCity Connect rethinking its deployment plan for residential fiber optic internet service 

—  June 6 – MAW President explains decision to pause and regroup on LanCity Connect rollout

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ETHICS & INTEGRITY?

From the front page of today’s LNP print edition (the article is not currently online).

     On Monday, I mailed a notarized complaint to the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission regarding LNP and the CRIZ money and this morning they state their editorial board met with Attorney General Josh Shapiro yesterday about ethics and integrity!  
     Lightning should strike these folks any minute.
There will be more on this and why MAW Communications is sponsoring LNP concerts later today!

* FOR $3.4 MILLION DOLLARS!

 *   Stuhldreher has the unmitigated gall to say this:
     Online comments suggest that customers are willing to give LanCity Connect the benefit of the doubt.
     He is just making that up and lying! And the first comment under his article begins with this:
     Their customer service is worse than Comcast. I’ve never reached a human voice and have left repeated messages without a single return call. 
     Resign, Stuhldreher!

“NEARLY 100 SUBSCIBERS!”

(Click here)

     This is simply unbelievable! This is Tim Stuhldreher’s second article in as many days bending over backward (and flat-out lying) to put this company in a good light (check two posts down for yesterday morning’s post about this before it got overshadowed by the horrific events of yesterday). Does he work for MAW Communications or LNP? Does he (or anyone at LNP) know that the first principle of journalism is to tell the truth?
     The City of Lancaster has paid MAW $1.4 million dollars, intends to pay them another $1.5 million dollars and has loaned them $1.5 million dollars.
     And do you know what the city has to show for that? According to Stuhldreher:
     Nearly 100 subscribers will have service by the end of the week, Wiczkowski [Frank Wiczkowski, president of MAW Communications] said.
     100 subscribers? Is that a sick joke? And how about the word “nearly” which clearly should be replaced by “only.” 100 subscribers for $3.4 million dollars? Why don’t you have Frank explain that to the public?
     As I said yesterday, Tim Stuhldreher needs to resign today. What a disgrace he is to the public he is supposed to inform!
Please check back later today.

UPDATE – BREAKING – AFTERNOON UPDATE *** BREAKING NEWS ***

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

DA: INDICATIONS ARE
MOTHER IS KILLER

      District Attorney Craig Stedman stated the mother, Carola Arnau, 40, bought the handgun the day before – legally – and apparently shot her two children and set the fires and then shot herself. The children were found in their beds. Her husband, Miguel, 45, was living in the garage and was at work when it happened. Stedman said there is no danger to the public.
     Stedman said they were divorcing and in a custody battle and that things had been “escalating,” stating he believed the police were called at least once recently. He asked anyone with information regarding her mental state to contact the police.
     Key points from the press conference are below from the DA’s spokesperson, Brett Hambright’s, Twitter Account.

    What a terribly sad day. Carola Arnau and her two children were murdered in their home in Strasburg. Everyone is awaiting details from the police. If there is any breaking news this evening, it will be posted, otherwise we will see what tomorrow brings.
     Condolences to their family and friends.

Carola Arnau

     There are reporters from all over at the triple homicide scene in Strasburg. A reporter for Allentown’s WFMZ-TV 69News brought a drone but was told by the State Police he could not use it. He said they use it all the time in Allentown.

**** The bodies are being removed from the home at 2:00 pm.

***  The triple homicide scene in Strasburg today about 1:10 pm.

**  Media reports are stating and quoting neighbors saying the father of the children was living in the home. According to a custody complaint that Miguel Arnau filed on April 3rd of this year and withdrew on April 20th, his address was an apartment in Ronks, PA.

    As we await word from the police, there is a mention of a Protection From Abuse filing for this family. The details are not available at the moment. The mother, Carola Arnau, is pictured below.

HORRIFIC MURDER
INVESTIGATION

Carola Arnau

      There is a shocking murder investigation this morning of a mother and her two children in Strasburg (click here for WGAL’s coverage). The home is owned by Miguel A. and Carola R. Arnau according to county records. They were in the process of divorcing and were having custody conferences for their two children.

Please also see directly below for this morning’s regular post.

LANCITY CONNECT IS A BUST!

WHAT ABOUT THAT
$1.5 MILLION LOAN?

– & THE OTHER $3 MILLION? –

(Click here)

    What does this mean?
— Mayor Gray needs to resign today!
— Patrick Hopkins needs to resign today!
— Danene Sorace needs to resign from city council and drop her mayoral candidacy today!
— LNP “reporter” Tim Stuhldreher needs to resign today!
— This whole corrupt mess needs to be investigated and charges brought against MAW Communications and city officials.

Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS! – 2

SIGNED, SEALED & MAILED!

Thomas and Susan Baldrige

      The below Ethics Complaint was completed, notarized and mailed today. I will have much more on this and the totally corrupt Lancaster Newspapers (LNP Media Group, Inc.) and the Baldriges tomorrow.

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CUTLER: A LIAR & FRAUD!

From today’s LNP print edition and online titled, “How should statewide judges get their jobs? Rep. Cutler pushes for merit-selection, not election,” (click here). [Please note that LNP’s political reporter and the author of this article, Sam Janesch, was still in college when the below happened! ]

     It doesn’t get anymore hypocritical, ironic and disgusting than this. District Attorney Craig Stedman is running to be a Superior Court Judge. Of all the reasons that he will not be elected, the most pressing, shocking and glaring reason is his indefensible protection and preferential treatment of Bryan Cutler and his family. Unbelievable! 

(Click here for the original)

(Click here for the original and the full LNP editorial)

Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – ALL IN THE FAMILY!

FULL OF SH*T?

    On a lighter note this afternoon(!), someone has changed the description of LNP’s Facebook page to “Portable Toilet Rentals in Lancaster, Pennsylvania!” Oh, my! Excellent and descriptive – but who could have done that?

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KIRCHNER REDUX?

     Taking a page from the Gary Kirchner story/saga, I am betting that LNP will hang the “taper” out to dry when push comes to shove. Reveal sources? Never…if you are a real journalist. They lost all credibility w/me on that one, alone, years and years ago. God rest his soul.

This comment in early this morning on the post immediately below.

Suzanne Cassidy

     What LNP did to Gary Kirchner is unforgivable (click here for “FORMER CORONER G. GARY KIRCHNER DIES” on this site). And it’s not that far removed from today’s LNP staff and their repeated attacks on former Manheim Township School Board President William Murry. The “Intell Five,” named as such by Ron Harper, Jr., formerly of 5thestate.com., are (click here):

     [Brett] Lovelace, P.J. Reilly, Paula Holzman, Carrie Caldwell Cassidy and Madelyn Pennino.

     Yes, there is the name “Cassidy.” Carrie Caldwell Cassidy is married to John Cassidy who until a few weeks ago was listed as an assistant news editor at LNP and his affiliation is still stated on his Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.

     And, he, of course, is the brother of Suzanne Cassidy, currently LNP’s Opinion Editor.  So for all of her editorials about ethics and journalism, etc., etc., she is fully aware of LNP’s dirty and unethical past and present. And while not named in William Murry’s lawsuit, she wrote front-page Sunday editorials calling for Murry to resign. Unbelievable!

     This woman retweets negative articles about Trump all day long and inspiring articles about journalism and she is a complete fraud.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – *** BREAKING NEWS *** – WATCH LIKE A HAWK?

WHAT DID KARA DO?

      It has been a busy law day – especially for the Philadelphia Law Firm of Kleinbard LLC who represents both William Murry in his lawsuit against LNP and represents State Senators Scott Martin and Ryan Aument in their attempt to oust Sheriff Reese through a lawsuit.
     Matthew Haverstick, a principal in the firm, is from Lancaster and his brother, Fritz Haverstick, works for District Attorney Craig Stedman. It is reported that Matthew is in tight with big money Philadelphia Republicans and Stedman would need their backing if he is to win the Superior Court Judgeship. What tangled webs we weave and I’ll come back to Stedman, Lancaster County juries and the Superior Court next week.
     The Adams County Judge agreed with Sheriff Reese that the Senators do not have standing (the authority) to oust him from office through a lawsuit. They have twenty days to refile or the case will be thrown out. It seems unlikely they will refile but we will have to wait to find out for sure. It looks like the only way to get rid of Reese is through the legislature and impeachment.
     And where is Reese living and hiding out? If anyone knows, please contact this site.

Newhouse

     And then we have Judge David Ashworth’s order in Murry’s suit against LNP. Murry can “compel discovery responses!” Oh, my! What did reporters Kara Newhouse and Susan Baldrige and Executive Editor Barbara Hough Roda know and when did they know it? Did Newhouse, who is no longer employed by LNP, solicit the illegal recording? Did she know it was being made? And why, with all the other corruption in Lancaster County on the part of paid officials, did LNP want Murry’s head on a platter so badly?
     Oh, the dirt is going to fly!
Have a safe and happy First Friday and please check back tomorrow.

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

ORAL ARGUMENTS:
 MURRY VS. LNP

     Judge David Ashworth has ordered oral arguments for July 21st in William Murry’s lawsuit against LNP Media Group, Inc. The full order is below (and click here for the original): 

ORDER AND NOW THIS 1ST DAY OF JUNE 2017 UPON JOINT REQUEST OF COUNSEL, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED THAT PLAINTIFF WILLIAM MURRY IS GRANTED LEAVE TO FILE A MOTION TO COMPEL DISCOVERY RESPONSES AND SUPPORTING BRIEF WITHIN 20 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS ORDER, AND DEFENDANTS SHALL HAVE 20 DAYS THEREAFTER TO FILE A RESPONSE AND BRIEF IN OPPOSITION TO PLAINTIFF’S MOTION.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED THAT ORAL ARGUMENT ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION SHALL BE HELD ON JULY 21, 2017 AT 10:30 A.M. IN CHAMBERS NO. 12 OF THE LANCASTER COUNTY COURTHOUSE.
BY THE COURT: DAVID L. ASHWORTH, JUDGE
CC: MATTHEW H. HAVERSTICK (1)
CRAIG J. STAUDENMAIER, ESQ. (1)
236 NOTICE SENT 06/01/2017

*** BREAKING NEWS ***

 JUDGE RULES FOR REESE

     Adams County Senior Judge John D. Kuhn issued an order filed this morning in favor of Lancaster County Sheriff Mark Reese and against State Senators Scott Martin and Ryan Aument. The order reads as follows (and click here for the Judge’s full opinion):

OPINION AND ORDER – MEMORANDUM OPINION ON DEFENDANT’S PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS AND ORDER FILED.  AND NOW, THIS 26TH DAY OF MAY, 2017, FOR THE REASONS SET FORTH IN THE ATTACHED MEMORANDUM OPINION THE PRELIMINARY OBJECTIONS FILED BY DEFENDANT, MARK S. REESE, ON MARCH 31, 2017, ARE HEREBY GRANTED.  PLAINTIFFS ARE GRANTED TWENTY (20) DAYS FROM THE DATE OF MAILING OF THIS ORDER TO FILE AN AMENDED COMPLAINT OTHERWISE THIS MATTER WILL BE DISMISSED, WITH PREJUDICE, AS A MATTER OF LAW WITHOUT FURTHER NOTICE.  BY THE COURT:  JOHN D. KUHN, SENIOR JUDGE, SPECIALLY PRESIDING.  COPIES WITH 236 NOTICE MAILED ON 6-2-17 TO MATTHEW H. HAVERSTICK, ESQ. AND MARK S. REESE, PRO SE.

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LANCASTER COUNTY’S
DIRTY LITTLE SECRET!

     A bank teller, a forklift operator and a worker at Amerimax Home Products are among 11 jurors selected as of Thursday for the double-homicide trial of Leeton Thomas of East Drumore Township.
The opening sentence to today’s LNP article by long-time reporter Jeff Hawkes, “11 jurors chosen as selection resumes in Leeton Thomas double-homicide trial Friday,” (click here).

Hawkes

     Is Hawkes going to tell us the racial and ethnic make-up of the jury as well or is LNP going to keep that a “secret” as they have done for years? Will I seriously have to travel to Lancaster just to find this out? Stating the make-up of the jury is standard journalism procedure in most parts of this country. Why would Lancaster County be any different?
     And what about District Attorney Craig Stedman who tried cases for years before juries that were seated through an unconstitutional jury selection process? And this man wants to be a Superior Court Judge?
     Why is the racial and ethnic make-up of juries in Lancaster County always such a big “secret?”
Please check back later today.

AFTERNOON UPDATE – ABSOLUTE HYPOCRITES!

THE CORRUPTION
BEGINS WITH LNP!

Patterson

     I am so glad LNP decided to be absolute hypocrites this morning and write about the Pennsylvania Ethics Commission. I have been meaning to put in a formal complaint and will do so. The link to the complaint form is here and it must be notarized so hopefully I can post the completed complaint I mailed here on Monday. Please feel free to send one as well.
     Below is the email I received several months ago suggesting I do that. I copied in all of the city council members when I forwarded this to Randy Patterson and asked for his response. So the city council members (including mayoral candidate Danene Sorace) all knew it was completely unethical and simply did not care! Why?

Danene Sorace

     Because the media company responsible for holding these public officials accountable in Lancaster County is LNP – and since they were the recipient of the millions of dollars unethically given to them – they certainly aren’t going to hold anyone accountable! And since they have so much power because they are the monopoly news source, no one wants to feel their wrath, or lose an election, by doing the ethical thing and saying, “No millions for you!”
     The corruption in Lancaster County is simply astonishing and at its head is the Lancaster Newspapers! Unbelievable!

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Dear Ms. Holzinger,

The Department of the Auditor General is in receipt of your correspondence regarding the CRIZ designation to Penn Square Partners.  Please be advised that your most immediate resolve to your inquiry could be referring your complaint to the Ethics Commission to determine if they have the authority to review the facts alleged, that the President of the committee is married to an owner of the media group that is benefitting from the CRIZ. The Pennsylvania Ethics Commission complaint process is explained on their website at http://www.ethics.pa.gov/How-To/Pages/How-To-File-a-Complaint.aspx  

You may also want to consider contacting Randy Patterson, City of Lancaster,  Director of Economic Development & Neighborhood Revitalization rpatterson@cityoflancasterpa.com with a copy to PA DCED. The PA DECD website for local government services is http://dced.pa.gov/local-government/#.WATQKGcVDIU

I will pass your correspondence on to our audit bureau for their review and consideration when preparing for any future review of DCED and the CRIZ program. 

Thank you for contacting the Department of the Auditor General.
 
Sincerely, 
 
John J. Murray
Regional Director
Administration
Department of the Auditor General
Phone: (570) 963-4528
Email: jomurray@paauditor.gov
Web: www.PAAuditor.gov
Facebook: Pennsylvania Auditor General
Twitter: @PaAuditorGen

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TAKING LYING & GREED
TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL!