Bird’s-Eye View

I wouldn’t blame you for thinking Lancaster’s been in a bit of a timewarp this week. Seems like we’ve gotten into some sort of contraption, typed “1968-1972″ into the machine and been swept away to a different place.
Republican lawmakers from Lancaster County are continuing to publicly prosecute Bill Ayers for bombs he detonated 40 years ago […]

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A rare Friday for ”Evening Coffee” due to a quirk in our reporter schedule. 
I feel vindicated this afternoon. From FOX News:
A cup of joe a day may help keep skin cancer away: A new study shows that caffeine helps kill off human cells damaged by ultraviolet light, one of the key triggers of several types of skin […]

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Newsroom brew in my Elizabethtown College alumni cup tonight. “Something in the Ayers Tonight” commemorative T-shirt and hat sold separately.
Can’t stay long here for Evening Coffee because there’s a lot of work to do. I just got off the phone with Bill Ayers … yes, the education professor from Chicago; yes, the former Weather Underground leader […]

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If I was going to make a difficult sacrifice for Lent, this would be it. I’ve sworn to forsake my beloved lattes for the next 40 days. But, you know, I see this as a good thing because now instead of syrupy goodness I can expand my horizons to the drip coffees.
Time to deal a […]

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Oh snap!
Barry and Bobby are jousting over whose speech will be more optimistic. President Barack Obama delivers his address at 9 p.m. to a joint session of Congress, and the response will be given by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
 
According to Politico.com, Jindal rips into Obama for being pessimistic:
“A few weeks ago, the President warned that […]

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I have a suggestion for you sweet-flavored coffee lovers. Trek on up to Senorita Burrita at 227 Prince St. and order a latte with sugar-free hazelnut syrup. You won’t find a finer tasting sugar-free hazelnut anywhere else.
I’m not going to focus too much on President Barack Obama’s propoganda pitch speech tonight to a joint session of Congress. […]

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The fare for this week’s column is a little light, kinda like a brothy soup with crackers for lunch instead of a sandwich. 
Topics include another look at charging municipalities which use state police for law enforcement; Lancaster County Commissioner Scott Martin’s new job; and a small plug for PCN’s “Journalist Roundtable” this Thursday. If you tune in […]

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I guess the nostalgia is running a little deep tonight. Last post, I spoke about 2005, and for some reason, I’m having flashbacks to just one year ago. The Pennsylvania press corps sat at the ready. Hillary Clinton looked to save her campaign with a sweep of Texas and Ohio against Barack Obama. That was […]

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The Year: 2005
The issue: Two attorneys want to plop a bizarre-looking casino into downtown Lancaster, what could have been former Mayor Charlie Smithgall’s final fingerprint on the city he loves so much.
Remember how this could have appeared along North Queen Street?

Ah, the good old days of 2005. A seminal year for your coffee-lovin’ journalist of […]

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Contemplating this afternoon about a three-bean mix of Sumatra, Costa Rican and Kenyan beans and how beans from these three regions mix wonderfully with a dash of mocha-flavored Spenda.
I’m also interested in something David Brooks of the New York Times wrote about recently. Brooks cited a Pew Research Center study about trends in where Americans prefer to […]

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