Bird’s-Eye View

The Mobile Nest is inside the Lehr Room where Bill Ayers is scheduled to speak tonight. Got a Tall cup of Starbucks house blend, a medium roast and medium body coffee, by my side. Wasn’t real delightful until I poured caramel-flavored Splenda into it. Much much better.
Okay, let’s be honest, you don’t care about what […]

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In on a Friday, again. So it’s a special Friday edition of “Evening Coffee,” and we’re pointing the mug toward Millersville University.
Members of the public, you won’t get to meet Bill Ayers in person when he comes to MU’s campus on March 19. It’s unlikely you will even see Ayers in person, period. Find out why in tomorrow’s […]

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Over-caffeinated and over-stimulated. Gonna be on the radio tonight. See below for details on how to listen in.
Let’s dive into the political pool:
 
The buzz at the Nest today is about Gov. Ed Rendell’s announcement regarding emergency actions to try and heal an ailing economic situation in Pennsylvania. Rendell announced at a presser how he would start spending money […]

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I’m curious, so tell me what yah think:

In light of Republican efforts to convince Millersville University to cancel the March 19 event with Bill Ayers, Millersville officials should: ( surveys)

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Where does it end?
The row between Millersville University officials and the Lancaster Republican House delegation over the scheduled Bill Ayers lecture has become so high profile - and those GOP lawmakers bear some of the responsibility for that - it’s become a game of who blinks first. And if MU caves and cancels Ayers’ event scheduled for March […]

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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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