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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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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