Bird’s-Eye View

Hot cup of newsroom brew with a splash of hazelnut Splenda. Delish! What’s in your mug? 
 
The bartender’s signalling last call. Today is the deadline for Willow Valley Associates to gather 2,205 signatures and place on the primary ballot a referendum to overturn West Lampeter Township’s alcohol sales prohibition. Willow Valley needs this to establish a 184-room Doubletree […]

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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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Okay, I’m not done with the work week just yet.
Found my way over to Gov. Ed Rendell’s new Web site that details how the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package will impact Lancaster County. The Web site is www.recovery.pa.gov. Not exactly Hulu or YouTube, but you know, just in case you feel inclined eating breakfast with […]

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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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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 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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Tomorrow’s print edition will have a story about whether or not West Lampeter Township, which hasn’t seen a legal alcohol drink sold within its borders since Prohibition, should reverse course. Patrick Burns, the Intell’s biz reporter, has the story.
And who’s driving the beer truck to overturn West Lampeter’s alcohol sales ban? Why, Willow Valley, duh. […]

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