Bird’s-Eye View

Hello black bird
Hello starling
Winter’s over
Be my darling
Long time comin’
But now
The snow is gone
-Josh Ritter
What a weekend! And I’m not just referring to the weather, either.
While the focus of tomorrow’s column is about school district consolidation, something we discussed at the Nest last week, I want to focus my comments tonight on a subject that didn’t […]

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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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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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A new chapter begins for the Lancaster County Republican Committee on Tuesday when the more than 360 members choose a new chairman. Dave Dumeyer, chairman for the last six years, retired in January, and since then two people have stepped up to replace him: Frank Fryburg, the former commissioner in Manheim Township, and Craig Ebersole, currently serving […]

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Lose weight, read more, contact old friends … all those resolutions for the New Year are so worn out.
I have an idea. With a presidential election behind us, with no major office like state Senator or county commissioner up for grabs, this might be the time for a new kind of New Year’s resolution -To […]

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We’re peering out from our perch at the Nest to see if the pennant-clinching Philadelphia Phillies actually endorsed Republican John McCain for President of the United States, and we’ll let you know just how many voters out there just can’t decide between McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.
The best quotes of the week are there, too, […]

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If Barack Obama wins, c’mon, you can’t be serious when you say Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell is going to finish out his second term. I mean, why? No one doubts his devotion and dedication to the Commonwealth, but in this week’s column we consider why staying in the Governor’s Mansion would be folly compared to […]

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The three most frequent things I heard about Sarah Palin last week were:

“She’s just like one of us.”
“Has anybody taken a close look at her record? People need to know about this stuff.”
“How soon before Tina Fey returns to SNL to spoof Palin?”

Ask and ye shall receive. Fey helped open the new SNL season last […]

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The print edition tomorrow will have a short tribute to Tim Russert, someone I humbly idolized. Plus as always the Quotes of the Week and Save the Date. All this for the pleasurable price of 50 cents.
I was just talking about Russert’s passing with one of our copy editors, and he said his wife had […]

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