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 […]
Entries Tagged as 'Scott Martin'
COLUMN PREVIEW: For Feb. 23, 2009
February 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Scott Martin · The Column · State Budget
“I ain’t for sale”
February 19th, 2009 · No Comments
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 […]
Tags: Charlie Smithgall · West Lampeter Township · Willow Valley · Scott Boyd · Scott Martin · Lloyd Smucker · Joe Pitts · Alcohol · Gambling · Republicans
Dumeyer’s defining moment
December 11th, 2008 · No Comments
Dave Dumeyer, the 6-year chairman of the Lancaster County Republican Committee, announced his resignation Thursday, and as I’m putting the article together tonight, I was thinking about what moment defines Dumeyer’s tenure.
To me, it was the nomination of Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin in the 2007 GOP primary for county commissioner. To understand why, we […]
Tags: Scott Martin · Dennis Stuckey · Dave Dumeyer · Religion · Lancaster Politics · Republicans
