2008-08-31 00:20:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS, Staff
The young man who answered the door at a North Duke Street apartment on Saturday shook his head regretfully when a Barack Obama worker asked if he had registered to vote. He was just 17. But his mother registered, the teenager said. Is she voting for Obama? "You know that!&q......
2008-08-26 01:15:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Five Lancaster County residents took their place Monday among the Democratic Party delegates who have converged on the "Mile High City" of Denver.On the opening day of the Democratic National Convention, in which Michelle Obama gave the keynote address, talking about her first me......
2008-08-25 00:38:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Keep the scrub pads and soap nearby. The race for president is about to get muddy, if it hasn't already.We're on the precipice now of the real dogfight between Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama with Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader also scraping for v......
2008-08-04 00:55:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
They are two fallacious arguments aimed at the same source.First is a John McCain television commercial about the high price of oil, and in it blame is squarely put on the shoulders of a single junior senator from Illinois who hasn't yet finished his first term and does not serve on th......
2008-08-01 01:10:00
PATRICK BURNS, Staff
Muhammad Yunus of Pakistan pioneered a microfinance system that has provided small loans to more than 100 million people living in poverty.Chuck Waterfield of Lancaster is an internationally known microfinance expert who is determined to foster Yunus' dream in growing nonprofit, humani......
2008-06-27 00:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama is not running away with the presidential election against Republican rival Sen. John McCain, according to a Franklin & Marshall College poll of 1,501 registered voters nationwide.Obama leads McCain by just 6 percentage points, according to the F&M poll......
2008-06-23 00:06:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
All those dire predictions a few weeks ago about a divided Democratic Party seem soooo outdated.This week, a Quinnipiac University poll of more than 1,500 likely Pennsylvania voters showed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama not only has a 52 percent to 40 percent edge......
2008-04-22 01:29:00
SUSAN E. LINDT, Staff
State Rep. Mike Sturla's campaign finance records have been subpoenaed as part of a grand jury investigation into a Scranton millionaire casino owner's alleged mob connections.In 2005, nearly one-quarter of Sturla's campaign contributions came from Mount Airy Casino Resort owne......
2008-04-21 00:53:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
Bill Neff, candidate for the state Senate seat in the 13th Legislative District, on Sunday did what any Republican would do two days before Pennsylvania's primary election.He and his wife, Barbara, left on a 10-day "religious pilgrimage" to Europe with about 50 other members ......
2008-04-21 00:32:00
TOM KNAPP, Staff
The hullabaloo of Pennsylvania's primary elections doesn't extend to the third-party faithful of the Lancaster Greens.The primary is set up by the state to pick delegates for the Republicans and Democrats only. That leaves the Green Party to choose its delegates on its own time and......
2008-04-21 00:22:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
One aspect of this primary's narrative is the disenchanted Republicans who have reconfigured the "R" on their voter registration cards into a "D."Such a decision comes with its pitfalls, as 33-year-old Nate Bomberger, who's volunteering full time for Sen. Barack......
2008-04-11 12:13:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
Republican Lloyd Smucker's highly anticipated campaign finance report sparked a new round of accusations and rebuttals in the hotly contested state Senate race today. The West Lampeter Township supervisor reported raising $125,724 in cash from others over the first three months of the year ......
2008-04-10 11:29:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
State Senate candidate Bill Neff is the first candidate in the four-way 13th district race to make public his latest campaign finance report. He did so this morning. His take? Zip. "I'm not raising anything," Neff said. "I'm very earnest about that. I don&#......
2008-04-10 09:07:00
SUSAN JURGELSKI / New Era Staff
It's hard not to notice the scaly, black tongue. As the Ephrata Middle School students troop by the Lancaster Council of Drug & Alcohol Abuse Tobacco-Free Coalition table, topped with educational materials about the dire consequences of smoking cigarettes, the "Hairy, Scary Tong......
2008-04-08 00:14:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey Jr. on Monday challenged rhetoric streaming from Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign that her chief Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, can't beat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in the general election.Casey, meeting with the Intelligencer Journal's......
2008-03-31 12:09:00
TOM MURSE, BERNARD HARRIS and CHAD UMBLE, Staff
Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama, saying voters are "ready to write a new chapter in American history," said here today he would fight the status quo in Washington if elected. "I'm running because of what Dr. (Martin Luther) King called the fierce urgency o......
2008-03-30 00:18:00
PAUL FRANZ, Staff
Indifferent. Apathetic. Lazy Those words are often used to describe young people's political attitudes. Not this year. "We're more vocal now," said Randy Jackson, 21, a junior broadcasting major at Millersville University. The baby boomers are fading, and a new ......
2008-03-27 11:08:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
Prepare yourself for Obama-mania, Lancaster County. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, whose rock star-like status and popularity among young voters vaulted him ahead in the bruising Democratic primary race, will campaign here on Monday. The Illinois Democrat is expected to appear here, likely after ......
2008-03-12 01:54:00
MICHAEL YODER, Staff
Being a Hillary Clinton supporter in an area where the mere mention of her name raises the blood pressure of conservatives can be daunting.Yet Lancaster County was well represented by dozens of enthusiastic supporters who traveled to Harrisburg on a yellow school bus bedecked with Clinton ......
2008-03-03 00:00:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
While our weather here remains cold, the 13th state Senate District GOP primary is certainly heating up.Last week reminded me of an old Warren Zevon song: "Lawyers, Guns and Money."The "lawyer" comes to us in the form of local attorney Jim Clymer calling out cand......
2008-02-29 01:35:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Republican Lloyd Smucker came under fire Thursday from the national chairman of the Constitution Party for not releasing a donor list detailing who contributed to Smucker's state Senate campaign.Smucker earlier this month told the Sunday News he had raised $185,000 in just two weeks, a......
2008-02-18 00:48:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
The lull in the 13th state Senate District primary is ending as candidates are starting to tout campaign finance totals and roll out their platforms.It's hard to fathom that, come Friday, it's still two months before the April 22 primary.I'm starting to get a sense, thro......
2008-01-29 00:46:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Despite being one of the two frontrunners in a county Republican endorsement convention last week, Gregory Sahd dropped out of the primary for the 13th state Senate District on Monday.Sahd said in a telephone interview Monday that the inconclusive Jan. 22 convention, in which no candidate ......
2008-01-21 00:19:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
The next consequential event in the local 2008 election cycle happens Tuesday when the Lancaster County Republican Committee convenes to dole out endorsements.All eyes will be watching to see if someone in the race to succeed Gibson E. Armstrong as state senator will garner an endorsement.......
2008-01-09 01:50:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
With just three days until they come face to face with local Republican Committee members for the first time as candidates, money is on the minds of most GOP hopefuls for the state Senate.Polled by the Intelligencer Journal Tuesday about what they see as the most important legislative issu......
2008-01-08 01:22:00
JEFF HAWKES, Staff
"Is this a campaign calling?" asked 10-year-old Leah Dunbar of Hillsboro, N.H., answering her parents' phone one evening last week.No, I assured Leah. I said I knew her parents, Peter and Carol, when they lived in Lancaster before she was born.Evidently I passed the te......
2008-01-07 00:31:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
If Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is still running by the time Pennsylvania's primary comes around, he'll have a familiar face at his side.Former U.S. Rep. Bob Walker, an East Petersburg resident, agreed to chair Thompson's campaign in Pennsylvania, Walker conf......
2008-01-03 01:46:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
A local businessman has entered the Republican race to replace retiring state Sen. Gibson Armstrong, making it a three-way contest.Bill Neff, 54, owner of Neff's Safe, Lock & Security Inc. in Lancaster city, cited campaign finance reform, school vouchers and the defense of traditio......
2007-12-17 00:52:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Paul Thibault, who finished his second term as county commissioner in 2004, is now the second declared candidate for the 13th District seat that will be vacated next year by state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong.The Lancaster Township Republican committee chairman joins county Recorder of Deeds S......
2007-12-03 00:16:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Politics can be a nasty affair, and I don't blame anyone who feels nauseated and turns away in disgust.Consider this statement:"If I'm going to get punched in the stomach, I'm going to take a knife out and get you right back ... I'm going to use every single wea......
2007-11-05 00:10:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
There's nothing left but the votes.The 2007 campaign ends Tuesday, when voters will choose three Lancaster County commissioners and decide who controls municipal offices and school boards.Across the county there are 234 polling locations, which open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.......
2007-11-05 00:06:00
LARRY ALEXANDER, Staff
In Manheim Township, Tuesday's township commissioner race seems to be largely about money.Nelson Rohrer, 56, who sat on the township's board of commissioners from 1990 to 1998, is running as an independent against incumbents Carol S. Simpson and Larry Downing, both of whom are Repu......
2007-11-05 00:05:00
BRIAN WALLACE, Staff
Voters in six suburban school districts will decide Tuesday who will represent them on their local school boards.The Cocalico, Columbia, Donegal, Ephrata, Lampeter-Strasburg and Penn Manor school board races all are contested.•In Cocalico, three incumbents and ......
2007-11-05 00:04:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Questions to be answered after voters cast their ballots Tuesday:•Did Commissioner Molly Henderson do enough to gain votes in Lancaster city?Many insiders from the Democratic city committee have expressed their disappointment with Henderson's record during the last four yea......
2007-10-22 00:01:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Brace yourselves. I'm going to issue a challenge.Seven weeks have passed since Labor Day, the unofficial start of the fall campaign, and just two weeks remain before Election Day.And in those nine weeks, not one debate has been scheduled for the Democratic and Republican candida......
2007-09-26 10:59:00
BERNARD HARRIS, Staff
Public safety, city government efficiency and economic revitalization are the topics three Republican candidates for Lancaster City Council are expected to address at their formal campaign kickoff this evening. R.B. Campbell, Kathleen Harrison and Brian Reynolds are running for the three open s......
2007-09-07 11:10:00
CINDY STAUFFER, Staff
He's not giving up. Lancaster County Coroner Dr. G. Gary Kirchner said today he expects he will mount a write-in campaign in a bid for re-election in November. And if he runs, he says, he will win. "I think I have an incredible amount of support," he said today. "......
2007-09-04 00:03:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Susan Leinberger has wrangled with challenges before.As superintendent of Eastern York School District in York County, Leinberger had to improve student test scores, manage day-to-day operations at six schools and keep the district operating within its budget.Instead of relaxing at ......
2007-09-03 00:12:00
P.J. REILLY, Staff
The proposed Corridor One rail system would cost taxpayers too much money and is likely a dead project.Citing Capital Area Transit projections that the proposed Corridor One line would carry 444 daily one-way passengers between Lancaster and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Transportation Secretar......
2007-08-09 11:14:00
TOM MURSE, Staff
This Election Day, your phone's sure to ring off the hook with those pesky callers asking whether you've voted yet — and if you haven't, whether you'd be so kind as to support yours truly. But if you're put off by such calls, here's some news: A couple dozen sta......
2007-06-24 00:12:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS, Staff writer
Money doesn't equal victory in politics. Unendorsed Republican Heidi Wheaton outperformed her endorsed opponents in finances throughout the primary campaign, $218,213 to $157,135. But on May 15, Wheaton — whose polls had been showing her second only to another unendorsed Republic......
2007-06-21 12:24:00
DAVID O'CONNOR
Its big, annual public campaign doesn't officially get started until after the new school year begins. But even in these early days of summer, its top leaders are, and have been, "getting the pump primed" as they crank up the plans for the 2007 fundraising effort. The United ......
2007-05-30 01:32:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
Heidi Eakin's decision to resign from the Lancaster County District Attorney's office had nothing to do with the recent scrutiny of a five-year-old case she handled, Eakin said Tuesday."The two are totally unrelated," the 24-year veteran prosecutor said during a telephone......
2007-05-30 00:44:00
CARLA DI FONZO, Staff
Justin Barbush said he always thought write-in campaigns were "uphill battles." Then he got involved in one.Now he's one of five school board candidates in Manheim Central School District to sweep the May 15 primary election in both ballot and write-in votes."I was intimidated at fi......
2007-05-15 01:53:00
DAVE PIDGEON, Staff
By the end of today, an estimated 60,000 voters will determine for a county of nearly half a million people who gets a chance at leading local governments and school boards, deciding how high or low taxes go.Today is Pennsylvania's primary election. Across Lancaster County, 233 polls o......
2007-05-05 02:04:00
Dave Pidgeon, Staff
Republican Heidi Wheaton raised $138,501 in donations for her bid to be a Lancaster County commissioner, far outpacing the other three GOP contenders in the primary campaign.According to campaign-finance reports that were due Friday to the county Board of Elections, Wheaton pumped $29,200 ......
2007-05-04 03:20:00
Dave Pidgeon, Staff
Republicans Dennis Stuckey and Scott Martin have received about $107,000 in campaign contributions this year, according to campaign finance reports the two Lancaster County commissioner candidates released Thursday.They have spent more than $31,000 on consultants, a radio advertisement, ca......
2007-04-30 00:02:00
Lisa Gockley, Correspondent
According to the National Safe Kids Campaign, 4.7 million children live in households with firearms that are sometimes kept loaded and in an unlocked location.A Lancaster-based company, Child Guard, has set out to reverse this trend, according to CEO James Burton.Child Guard develop......
2007-04-16 20:43:00
Patrick Burns, Staff
Isaac's Restaurant & Deli will host a benefit this week to support a special adult reading program organized by area public libraries.The company will hold a fundraiser in support of the 2007 One Book, One Community Campaign from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday at all Isaac's locatio......
2007-04-10 01:29:00
Dave Pidgeon, Staff
They are the behind-the-scenes people.You may not know their names, but they have a tremendous influence on name recognition.They design the campaign mailers, produce the television commercials and lay out the Web sites — and, as a result, they can set the tone for a candidate......
2007-03-25 00:01:00
HELEN COLWELL ADAMS, Staff Writer
How much does it cost to educate a child in Pennsylvania? By November, taxpayers should have a better handle on the numbers. But numbers alone won't fix the school financing system, a coalition of education advocates argue. The Pennsylvania Education Funding Reform Campaign wan......
2007-03-10 01:40:00
Dave Pidgeon, Staff
There may be no "I" in team, but there's one on Jere Swarr's voter registration card.Swarr, a Rapho Township supervisor running for Lancaster County commissioner, said he visited the county Board of Elections Wednesday to change his party affiliation from Republican to in......
2007-01-25 16:34:00
Staff
Published Jan. 25, 2007: Lowell Reidenbaugh, 87, passed away in St. Louis last Saturday, Jan. 20. Reidenbaugh was a Lititz native who went on to become one of the most significant sports journalists of his time. He was the managing editor of The Sporting News from 1958 to......
2006-12-28 12:24:30
David O'connor
That's according to this year's United Way of Lancaster County campaign chairman, and he's not talking about a college bowl game, or a pro football game for some team on the playoff bubble. He's speaking of the United Way's about-to-end campaign drive, which was on target for a great year until s......
2006-11-11 23:28:18
Helen Colwell Adams
And that’s no exaggeration.
With county Republicans setting a Nov. 24 deadline for candidates to file for screening for county commissioner, GOP hopefuls barely had time to take a breath, or a nap, between Tuesday’s election and the opening salvos of the 2007 cycle.
It ...
2006-11-06 20:43:45
Editor
For endless weeks, prospective voters have been besieged by all manner of political advertising — some positive, much negative. Some of the advertising is designed to draw distinctions between candidates. Some is designed to anger and disgust voters to the point that they will stay home rather...
2006-11-03 01:27:21
Susan E. Lindt
Whoever replaces the veteran politico — Democrat John Liss or Republican Mike Folmer — isn’t likely to be a name the public knows as well yet.
Folmer built his primary platform on fellow Republican Brightbill’s mistakes — namely the unpopular pay raise vote that brought down...
2006-11-01 14:38:17
Tom Murse
The two-term Republican has fallen farther behind Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the race for U.S. Senate as voters grow more concerned about the war in Iraq and less comfortable with his often combative style. “There’s been a huge shift away from a fairly tight race to a demonstrable — if not insurmo......
2006-10-26 01:37:54
Dave Pidgeon
Hannity and the two-term senator are scheduled to speak during the public rally starting at 7 p.m. in the Farm & Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Manheim Township.
“We are thrilled to have him,” Santorum spokeswoman Virginia Davis said. “Sean Hannity and Sen. Santorum share a very strong commi...
2006-10-19 01:01:34
Dave Pidgeon
During the third quarter that ended Sept. 30, Herr raised $86,000 from individual contributors, and U.S. Rep. Joseph Pitt raised $26,000.
“I really think individuals are so concerned about what’s going on in government that they are willing to invest personally in my campaign,” Herr said duri...
2006-08-09 13:37:50
By Tom Murse
The GOP, choosing from 16 people interested in serving on the panel if voters approve it in November, voted to back seven — with at least a two-thirds majority — in its first round of voting. They are:
James F. Bednar, a Lititz financial planner and former chairman of the county GOP. He wa......
2006-08-08 13:29:43
By Tom Murse
But they’ll also be forced to take up a thorny issue from the recent past — the support of unendorsed candidates by Republicans at the state level in May’s legislative elections. Specifically, some local committee people are still angry about the House Republican Campaign Committee’s support of R......
2006-08-01 13:13:08
Jack Brubaker
By hot-air balloon. On his first try, he failed spectacularly, crashing his balloon in New York and destroying all the mail. The second time he failed in more mundane fashion, floating the wrong direction in Indiana and causing the mail to be delivered extremely late. A brief article in the......
2006-07-22 08:36:37
Dave Pidgeon, Intelligencer Journal Staff
While campaigning for the U.S. Senate, Casey picked up several food items -- including shoo-fly pie and cookies -- during a sweltering visit to Lancaster city's Central Market.
His words, though, took aim not at the county's culinary calling cards, but at Santorum's Senate record.
"We'...
2006-07-15 23:40:07
Helen Colwell Adams
“This is going to be a $17 million contract,” said county solicitor Don LeFever, “and so we don’t want to just hop into it.”
He said the county is aware of published stories in Florida and elsewhere raising questions about the political connections of Armor officials and about...
2006-06-03 23:36:50
Helen Colwell Adams
He joins Holly Lyristis, 28, and Elizabeth Leaman, 29, in the party’s RSC delegation.
In the May 16 primary, 31-year-old Bryan Cutler and 33-year-old John Bear each trounced an older incumbent to win the GOP nomination for a state House seat.
Youth is being served in Republican...
2006-05-13 23:40:26
Helen Colwell Adams
What made it unusual is that earlier in the campaign, Todd was listed on the Web site of Armstrong’s opponent, Bryan Cutler, as Cutler’s municipal coalition head.
“I like to be positive,” Todd said Saturday. “It seemed like Bryan was dwelling so much on everything Gib was doin...
2006-05-10 11:17:19
Susan Jurgelski
Trapped behind the ladder in the deep end of the pool at Lancaster County Park, they discovered a 2-year-old boy. “The lifeguards pull the patrons out every three hours to do a routine scan for objects, so this was at a time when they weren’t looking for potential problems with people,” says Tamm......
2006-05-04 13:15:59
Tom Murse
Rendell, a Democrat, would trounce Lynn Swann, his Republican challenger, by 14 points if the election were held now, the Franklin & Marshall College Keystone Poll found. Santorum, an embattled Republican whose polls have consistently shown him down by double-digits, has closed to within 6 points......
2006-05-04 15:36:56
Each license plate will cost $20 in addition to the normal annual registration fee to obtain. PennDOT is required to certify those veterans applying for such plates as serving in one of the above mentioned military campaigns or in the case of the general service veteran plate, any military service b...
2006-04-12 12:51:46
Tim Mekeel
That’s the logic behind Cimbrian’s acquisition of Kelly Michener for an undisclosed price. Cimbrian is a custom software and Internet applications firm, Kelly Michener a marketing agency. “You’re taking the left brain and the right brain and sort of putting them together,” said Cimbrian’s Kirk......
2006-04-12 12:19:33
Tom Murse
Lawmakers have been known to jam their electronic voting machines with wads of gum, paper clips or crumpled up paper so they can record an “aye” or “nay” when they’re nowhere near the floor. But when the House began granting its members “Capitol leave,” allowing them to register votes when they’r......
2006-04-09 00:05:43
Helen Colwell Adams
“Which one would you like?” Wenger unflappably replied. Brubaker suggested the left one.
“I thought you’d want to be on the right!” Wenger cracked. Brubaker took off his own shoe and held both up, side by side.
“I would like you to understand that they’re ......
2006-04-04 07:46:38
Carla Di Fonzo, Intelligencer Journal Staff
The former Lancaster County resident and his 15-year-old sister, Josephine, both were diagnosed at birth with type IIA von Willebrand syndrome, an inherited blood-clotting disorder.
"Just having the disease means visiting doctors a lot," he said. "We don't remember anyone sitting us down ...
2006-04-01 14:30:43
Tom Murse
“I would ride my bike to school early to go through the newspapers,” recalls Reiff, now 38. His teacher, a Plain woman, greeted him enthusiastically every morning. “We would have a friendly debate about current events,” he said. “She was a big Democrat, and at the time I was a big fan of Ronal......
2006-03-31 08:20:58
Brett Hambright, Intelligencer Journal Correspondent
Tom Hartman, Donegal's third-year head coach, became enlightened when he arrived in Mount Joy after 15 years as McCaskey's head baseball coach.
"Pitching," said Hartman, who watched his first scholastic softball game while coaching the Indians' 2004 season opener. "It's the name of the ga...
2006-03-30 13:33:29
Tom Murse And Cindy Stauffer
Three former staffers say the Republican lawmaker used his office for political work — allegations that could damage his campaign and, worse, lead to a criminal investigation. One of the former staffers, 25-year-old Heather Macmillan of Lititz, said today she intends to file an official complaint......
2006-03-22 14:21:57
Tom Murse And Cindy Stauffer
It was about the bird flu. “Her question was, ‘What do you see as a potential and what will the planning be?’ ” Stewart recalled today. At school board meetings and parent-teacher get-togethers, the deadly strain of avian flu expected to hit the shores of the United States has emerged as yet a......
2006-03-10 08:11:52
Dave Pidgeon, Intelligencer Journal Staff
The site -- www.wherescasey.com -- has a Wild West motif and an animated cowboy suggesting Casey spends more time working to unseat Santorum than filling his duties as state treasurer.
Although hardly the first Web site slamming a major candidate, wherescasey.com illustrates how the campa...
2006-03-02 08:00:47
Susan E. Lindt, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Though the U.S. government failed to see the wisdom in eliminating a weapon that can maim and kill civilians generations after a war's end, Williams still took home the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for galvanizing in five years international support for a ban on land mines.
Williams spoke Wednes...
2006-02-18 23:40:51
Helen Colwell Adams
The signs were the scar tissue from burns suffered when a suicide bomber rammed Leisey’s Humvee in Iraq, and the glove covering the left hand where fingers had to be amputated.
“I’m Staff Sgt. Jason Leisey,” he told the crowd of 50 friends and family members at the Mount Joy V...
2006-02-06 13:25:10
David O'connor
Now, on Tuesday, the Strasburg businesswoman will take an oath to become something else — the fifth U.S. ambassador ever from Lancaster County, and the first woman. Ware won’t officially become the U.S. ambassador to Finland until she arrives in Helsinki and the government there accepts her crede......
2006-02-02 12:07:09
Tom Murse
The front-runner in a four-way race for the Republican Party’s blessing is still a long way from capturing the two-thirds majority needed, with most of the informal straw polls taken. And the lack of an overwhelming consensus raises the possibility of an ugly, protracted battle at the county GOP ......
2006-02-02 09:38:08
Up for contention are all six state representative offices throughout the county and the state senate seat now held by Noah Wenger. Six State Democratic Committee positions, representing the entire county, will also be on the upcoming ballot. The Convention will also endorse a candidate for the 16th...
2006-01-27 10:25:12
Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
“Leave it,” his master tells him. “It’s just an old double chin. Someone probably lost it playing here in the park with their kids.”
“ “Oh my God, that is hysterical!” said the Sherman Oaks, Calif., mother of three. “Very clever.”
“ Schwartz-Getzug likes the “selling idea......
2006-01-25 15:16:12
The festivities will begin with cocktail time at 6 p.m. followed by dinner and dancing. The Tim Heiniman’s Orchestra with Bonnie Boyer will provide the music for the evening. The charity chosen by the Woman’s Club this year is the Heritage Matters Campaign of the Historical Society of the Cocalic......
2006-01-21 12:33:01
Tom Murse
Chad Weaver, chief of staff for the retiring West Cocalico Township lawmaker, has accepted a position as director of Santorum’s central Pennsylvania operations. Wenger, in a prepared statement, said Weaver was among the most talented staffers he’s worked with over the last three decades. “Whil......
2006-01-10 13:41:35
Tom Murse
The West Cocalico Township farmer is the only member of Lancaster County’s Harrisburg delegation who has not yet revealed whether he will run for re-election this year. “I haven’t ruled anything out,” said Wenger, who has served in the Legislature for nearly three decades. “I will make a decision......
2006-01-10 13:21:14
Bernard Harris
It cost Smithgall more to lose than he had spent to win his two previous elections — combined. Smithgall, the Republican who left office last week after two terms as mayor, and his challenger, Democrat Rick Gray set a new spending record in the Lancaster City mayor’s race. Together, they spent......
2006-01-03 13:58:13
Rochelle A. Shenk
F&M will host The Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign School Thursday, Jan. 12, through Saturday, Jan. 14. The school is a unique training opportunity for women candidates, according to Martha Lester Harris, president of The Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign Fund, a sponsor of the event. Based on the si......
2005-12-13 08:56:49
Tom Knapp, Intelligencer Journal Staff
In a flier sent to about 60,000 Pennsylvania residents from its Los Angeles headquarters, LCA attacks the picturesque image Lancaster works so hard to promote.
"In most of the picturesque barns, thousands and thousands of dogs and puppies suffer in the most squalid, deplorable conditions," th...
2005-12-02 12:46:32
Tom Murse
After crisscrossing the state for support in recent months, Sahd announced his decision at a meeting of the Lancaster County Republican Committee Thursday night. “I want to make it official right here, on my home turf: I intend to seek the nomination for lieutenant governor next year,” Sahd told ......
2005-11-08 13:32:37
Tom Murse
The informal survey of 125 voters at 23 polling places across the city found that 58 percent voted for Gray, a defense attorney, and 42 percent supported Smithgall, an incumbent seeking his third term as mayor. Voters who chose Gray said they did so because they wanted to see fresh faces in City ......
2005-11-05 12:44:07
Bernard Harris
They have been knocking on doors for months, in addition to attending public meetings and debates. Today, both men were criss-crossing the city, stuffing campaign literature in doorways in a last-minute blitz. “I think it’s a close election, and I need everybody out that I can get out,” said Smit......
2005-10-27 12:59:42
Tom Murse
If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Ware would replace Ambassador Earle Mack and move to the Finlandian capital of Helsinki for an undetermined amount of time. “It’s the beginning of an exciting trip,” said the 61-year-old Ware this morning. “It’s just a wonderful surprise and great honor to be able......
2005-10-27 12:41:58
David O'connor
United Way has nearly 5,000 volunteers, a record, out and about in the community seeking contributions from the public — and all the work seems to be paying off for the social-service and human-needs agency. The United Way of Lancaster County gave a “halftime report” today at Willow Valley’s Palm......
2005-10-25 09:45:58
Jeff Young, Intelligencer Journal Sports Editor
For Brown, forcing Reche Caldwell into the fumble that clinched Sunday's 20-17 victory over the San Diego Chargers was just another day at the office. Hey, it's not his fault people are only just beginning to notice.
"To be honest, I think I had a more productive season last year,'' Brown sai...
2005-10-25 09:28:48
Paula Holzman, Intelligencer Journal Staff
"It puzzles the daylights out of me why we can't accept a woman as a leader," Adams said.
Fresh attention has been focused on women politicians by ABC's new sitcom "Commander in Chief," which stars Geena Davis as the nation's first female president.
"We've had very strong, effective wo...
2005-10-21 14:21:03
John Spidaliere
Sponsored by the League of Women Voters, the forum included the city campaign’s most heated exchanges. With the Nov. 8 election rapidly approaching, the candidates even clashed over the economic state of downtown Lancaster. Gray, a Democrat, said Smithgall, a Republican, has not done enough to......
2005-10-05 08:45:48
Carla Di Fonzo, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Representatives from local libraries said it's one of the largest reading campaigns in Pennsylvania to date and is expected to be a success, thanks to "The White," a historical novel written by Gettysburg author Deborah Larsen.
"We're very excited about the regional cooperation of this campai...
2005-09-14 09:01:19
Brett Lovelace, Intelligencer Journal Staff
A Comcast investigation determined Smithgall wasn't stealing cable television service, and Messimer was charged in June with defiant trespass.
District Judge Bruce A. Roth found Messimer guilty Tuesday following an hourlong hearing. An appeal can be filed to common pleas court within 30 days....
2005-09-09 08:36:46
Brett Lovelace, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Thousands of Web sites have been launched to solicit funds for hurricane victims in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Some fraudulent sites were established even before the hurricane reached the Gulf Coast.
Law enforcement officials from Philadelphia and Lancaster held a news conference her...
2005-08-31 12:37:36
Dave Pidgeon, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Republican incumbent Mayor Charlie Smithgall and his Democratic challenger, Rick Gray, said Tuesday the results of a Keystone Poll, sponsored by Franklin & Marshall College's Floyd Institute Center for Public Research, accurately show a sunny disposition among most city residents about living in Lan...
2005-08-22 13:11:46
Tom Murse
“It certainly appears that there’s some sort of political pressure being put on the billboard companies,” said Chris Lilik, the founder of Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania. He declined to specify who he thinks is behind the effort. He also would not identify the billboard companies. But one......
2005-08-19 08:43:54
Charles Lardner, Intelligencer Journal Staff
Chris Lilik, chairman of Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, said Harper, who works for the Senate Republican Caucus, has been threatening and harassing him because of his organization's campaign to unseat leaders in the General Assembly for the 16 to 37 percent pay raise lawmakers approved with no...
2005-08-16 13:53:55
Tom Murse
A conservative activist from suburban Harrisburg has launched a campaign to publicly shame the state’s most powerful politicians for their handling of the July pay raise. Chris Lilik, a 26-year-old law school grad and founder of the group Young Conservatives of Pennsylvania, is raising money to p......
2005-07-30 12:02:54
Ryan Robinson
Pieter Van Delft, 45, of 81 Tennyson Drive, was chosen from roughly 10 people interested in the position, according to county Republican Chairman Dave Dumeyer. “We came up with four candidates,” Dumeyer said. “Pieter Van Delft was the consensus, probably overwhelming, and unanimous choice of ever......
2005-06-22 12:11:36
Carla Di Fonzo, Intelligencer Journal Staff
“The families of 9/11 victims just want to be heard, and Monday was just the beginning of a nationwide awareness campaign,” Burlingame said during a telephone interview Tuesday. “Dozens of family members took part in the event and spoke to the public.
“Basically, we’d like the site to be a re...
2005-06-10 09:25:51
Charles Lardner
Trego, 30, a former Hempfield High School teacher who has served as the GOP committee director since January 2004, said he enjoys the job but wants to return to teaching high school and perhaps begin a family with his wife, Holly.
Earlier this week, Trego mailed out letters to each of the ....
2005-06-06 13:42:45
Daniel Burke
In the parlance of arborists, they have been “topped.” Branches that once reached 15 to 20 feet toward the sun have been hacked in half. Not a leaf of their once reddish-green crowns remains. Without the leaves that harvest the sun’s energy and the branches that store the harvest, the red oaks wi......
2005-05-24 10:18:59
Brandon Lausch
Rutter, 27, won the first of the show's three final "Ultimate Tournament of Champions" games Monday, beating out all-time winningest game show contestant Ken Jennings and former "Jeopardy!" champion Jerome Vered.
Today and Wednesday, he will use Monday's win as leverage in an a......
2005-05-11 09:54:06
Charles Lardner
The two Republicans vying for the nod in the primary are incumbent Mayor Charlie Smithgall and City Councilman Luis Mendoza.
Although the usual issues in a mayoral race - jobs, taxes and crime - are at play, the campaign's defining issue appears to be whether to build the proposed......
2005-04-30 23:47:02
Patricia Poist
As the May 17 primary nears, a lawsuit aimed at stopping a long-awaited high school renovation project, combined with intraparty and partisan bickering, have turned the school board races for five open seats in the county’s largest township into quite a battle.
A total of 11 c...
2005-04-14 09:14:00
Charles Lardner
A fight for control of East Hempfield Township has divided the traditionally unified Republican Party - and the battle is getting nasty.
Three seats on the township's five-person board of supervisors are up for grabs in the May 17 primary, and six GOP candidates...
2005-04-12 09:17:14
Brett Hambright
Warwick's Courtney Gingrich and Solanco's Jill Kushlan are a Lancaster-Lebanon League version of The Odd Couple.
The senior duo has battled one another on the diamond since they hit the varsity softball scene as freshman. Both have been dominate for much of their time on th......
2005-02-23 12:40:34
John M. Spidaliere
The mayor made his comments today after a leaflet raising questions about his health and his ability to serve another four years was placed anonymously on cars outside Tuesday’s City Council meeting. The leaflets, said the mayor, are a troubling sign this primary campaign will be filled with muds......
2005-01-10 12:31:29
Bernard Harris
That funding was restored, but that only brought the county’s public libraries a reprieve. Now, librarians want to make sure the budget crisis doesn’t become an annual ritual. Tuesday evening, they will begin a process that could result in a special designated tax for libraries. “Stable, su......
2005-01-05 14:17:36
Janet Kelley
Gov. Ed Rendell picked Wright last November to fill the vacancy left by now-federal Judge Lawrence F. Stengel, but the appointment wasn’t confirmed before time ran out in last year’s legislative session. “I’m very pleased,’’ Wright said this morning of the nomination, “and, hopefully, the whole p......
2004-12-25 20:30:10
Helen Colwell Adams
By the end of January, some municipalities were running out of road salt.
It should have served as a warning.
Because if 2004 had a theme song, it would have been the blues classic “Stormy Weather.”
Not just meteorologically; 2004 brought Lancaster County...
2004-11-16 12:09:16
Tom Murse
“My professors were outstanding. They helped to stoke my interest in politics and public service,” Mehlman, 38, said in an interview this morning. “I’m also a huge believer in the fraternity system at F&M. It offers young people an opportunity to lead and to manage.” Mehlman is a 1988 graduate......
2004-11-13 17:43:27
Teresa Bostwick, Lancaster
Has anyone noticed that Turkey Hill pulled all of the sexually explicit magazines off its shelves? I can now take my 9-year-old girl inside to pay for gas, knowing she will not be exposed to this type of thing.
We know that pornography is now epidemic, and I thank those at Turkey Hill who are...
2004-11-12 09:32:14
Lori Van Ingen
With six weeks left in the annual campaign, pledges and gifts to date total $5.7 million, or 4.1 percent ahead of last year's campaign, 2004 campaign chairman Stephen E. Stockwell said.
"We're in a great position to be in," Stockwell said. "We're comfortable where we're at,......
2004-11-06 16:13:37
Dave Hennigan
“Still can’t understand why we have such an archaic way of voting, Mr. Editor,’’ my jogging friend said the other day, sipping his coffee.
“Everything still is on paper. My name is on a sheet of paper, and somebody writes down that I voted on another sheet.
“This is a N...
2004-10-27 10:00:08
Paula Holzman
Rutt, 55, participated in the club while growing up in Manheim, met her husband, Ken, through its activities and they raised their three children as 4H members.
Today, Rutt will meet President Bush - in part because of 4H - when his plane touches down at Lancaster Airport.
......
2004-10-23 18:52:57
B.j. Gollatz, Millersville
Perhaps Mrs. Bush didn't make enough money for her teaching and librarian jobs to count. Being a mother certainly didn't count to Mrs. Kerry. Mrs. Kerry made a quick retraction of her remark, saying that she forgot Mrs. Bush was a teacher and librarian. Well, being a mother still isn't a job to Mrs....
2004-10-22 15:32:38
OCCUPATION: State senator
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, Westminster College
QUALIFICATIONS: In addition to my experience representing the 13th Pennsylvania Senate District, I serve on the boards of the Lancaster General Hospital, Water Street Rescue Mission, Economic Development Corp.,...
2004-10-22 15:29:06
OCCUPATION: Professor, Millersville University
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree, Muhlenberg College; master’s and doctorate degrees, Syracuse University
QUALIFICATIONS: Former president of League of Women Voters of Lancaster County; volunteer at school, church, Girl Scouts, other community...
2004-10-20 13:43:35
Tom Murse
Word on the street has it President Bush will return to Lancaster County in the final days of the campaign. Before you dismiss it as hearsay, check this out: the Bush-Cheney ’04 Web site’s list of upcoming campaign stops is mysteriously open next Wednesday. Hmm. Could it be? “I don’t kno......
2004-10-19 09:39:39
Charles Lardner
Terry Trego, executive director of Lancaster County Republican Committee, said GOP headquarters distributed about 1,000 tickets on Saturday and Sunday and 1,100 on Monday alone.
"Today was a big day," Trego said Monday about 5 p.m. "I got here at 9 a.m., and there was a long line ......
2004-10-16 22:19:56
Helen Colwell-adams
Bruce Beardsley, the county Democrat chairman, said Saturday that party leaders will decide over the weekend whether to sue in the wake of the county commissioners’ Wednesday vote to mail about 4,500 absentee ballots with a Nader line.
“We see this as a concerted effort on the part of (Commis...
2004-10-13 15:50:45
Mrs. Edwards will meet local voters and talk at the Crispus Attucks Center, 407 Howard Ave., beginning at 11 a.m. Doors will open at the center at 10:15 a.m.
Tickets are available at the Lancaster County Democratic Party Headquarters, 53 N. Duke St., in Lancaster. Its phone number is 299-570...
2004-10-09 22:35:56
Helen Colwell Adams
Just weeks ago, top Democrats were predicting a primary fight for mayor next year between former city councilman Craig Lehman and attorney Rick Gray.
Lehman has other ideas.
The state House Appropriations Committee budget analyst dropped a small bombshell last week by announcing that h...
2004-09-08 13:34:22
Tom Murse And John M. Spidaliere
And the turnout on Election Day is expected to be very high — perhaps the highest in at least three decades. The question is, why? Why do nine of 10 registered voters say they’re “certain to vote?” Why are more than half “very interested” in the presidential campaigns? Why have so many voters ......
2004-09-03 09:28:40
P.j. Reilly
On Thursday night, as the GOP officially picked George W. Bush as its candidate to run against Democrat John Kerry, Lancaster County residents marked the occasion in markedly different ways.
A group of about 30 Bush opponents marched from Buchanan Park down North West End Avenue to Lancast....
2004-09-01 13:30:20
Tom Murse
It was noisy, sure. But Sahd heard what the GOP official was asking him: Would you like to address the 4,500 delegates and alternates? Sahd accepted the invitation, and his face was splashed across three massive TV screens at Madison Square Garden — and on cable networks across the country....
2004-08-14 16:58:27
Helen Colwell-adams
Diane Moore and Ned Bustard to the rescue.
Moore, the former county GOP executive director and campaign consultant, and her partner, the owner of Lancaster-based World’s End Images, have teamed up to develop a line of Republican-themed T-shirts and other products with a little more humor – no...
2004-07-27 14:21:35
Tom Murse
“It’s a much-overused cliché, but this is the most important election we’ve seen in years and years,” said Carlton DeBord of East Hempfield Township, one of three delegates from the county. “That phrase is being used with real meaning up here.” In speeches to 4,300 delegates Monday night, the sta......
2004-07-10 23:15:24
Helen Colwell-adams
And the leader of the free world responded by giving the Bird in Hand woman a hug.
And Friedman was walking on air.
“This has just been the trip of a lifetime!” Friedman exclaimed afterward, displaying the ticket that Bush had autographed for her.
For the Bush campaign, the goal...
2004-07-07 08:50:21
Charles Lardner
"The attitude of many longer serving, tort reform minded General Assembly members is that physicians whine and complain about this and a laundry list of matters, but when push comes to shove, they do not support those who try to support them," Denlinger wrote in a recent, and frank, e-ma......
2004-04-28 14:35:12
Tom Murse
Specter also won, however, because of what Toomey could not do: capture a majority of GOP votes in central Pennsylvania -- thought to be the race's battleground and Toomey's biggest chance for a statewide victory.
Those Republicans instead backed the moderate Specter, a county-by-county a...
2004-04-24 23:29:55
Paula Wolf
Spencer F. Wilkerson Sr. is the first to admit he wasn’t anxious to be a soldier.
After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, some of his friends in Harrisburg wanted to sign up for military service.
“Not me,” he said.
But eventually Uncle Sam came calling, and Wilkerson was drafted...
2004-04-19 12:34:18
Home: Lancaster
Age: 55
Occupation: Professor, interim associate dean, Millersville University
Education: Bachelor’s, Muhlenberg College; master’s and doctorate, Syracuse University
Qualifications: Former president of League of ......
2004-04-17 12:02:08
Tom Murse
Dr. James Dobson -- the radio personality, newspaper columnist and author who gives voice to millions of conservatives -- will campaign for Toomey in Lancaster County Friday night.
Dobson and Toomey will appear together at a rally scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Lancaster Host Resort on Linco...
2004-03-13 13:15:06
John M. Spidaliere
The interviews, conducted in mid-February, show that the 16- and 17-year-olds at both schools share a desire to see more from the future than they have now, said Jackson.
They want to believe that if they stay in Lancaster County, they will have good jobs and safe streets.
They wan...
2004-02-27 09:16:47
Justin Quinn
If he had been, Kerry probably would have pointed to Mountville resident Patrick Meley as his inspiration for running. Meley, among the approximately 20 Kerry supporters at Borders, said he recently lost his job at NTN-BCA Corp., a Lititz ball bearing manufacturer.
Protecting A......
2004-02-06 13:40:00
Amy Leeking
It points out the 300-plus-seat Connections Cafe, where you can buy a small cup of "LCBC Brew'' for 90 cents. And the church's Scripts Bookstore, which offers books, compact discs and LCBC tote bags for sale.
But, if you're still confused about navigating this newly expanded 130,000-squar...
2004-01-19 09:27:12
From Our Archives // Lancaster Intelligencer, January 16, 1919
The amendment to the Federal constitution prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages becomes effective one year after the date of its final ratification. Meanwhile, the nation goes dry July 1 next, ......
2003-11-17 13:17:26
Bernard Harris
Mickey Mouse, a perennial candidate, seems to have fallen from favor among voters who take a pen with them behind the curtain. He got only one vote for sheriff this year.
Write-in votes are a time-honored tradition of the American electorate, and this month's election yielded more write-i...
2003-10-27 14:30:35
Amy Leeking
Toomey, arriving first, planned to speak near Manheim and receive the official support of several state legislators and members of a local builders and contractors association.
About an hour later, Specter -- a veteran moderate senator from Philadelphia -- intended to talk about sexual ab...
2003-10-24 09:56:27
Justin Quinn
He just didn't think it would get this ugly.
Rumors recently began circulating linking Clymer, national chairman of the Constitution Party, to a white supremacist group.
A reporter for the Intelligencer Journal first became aware of the rumor last week when Lancaster County Commi.....
2003-10-23 09:44:11
Carrie Caldwell
Few patrons took advantage of the library, making it mostly a midmorning getaway for a volunteer staff that treated it as a place to gather, chat and drink coffee.
Susan L. Hauer viewed it differently. She saw Esopus Library as an untapped well.
During her 12 years as the library.....
2003-10-19 02:06:47
Helen Colwell Adams
The line never fails to get Bill Saylor a laugh: The Democrat has been telling audiences this year that if he’s elected, he promises to work cooperatively with the minority party county commissioner.
It’s a great gag. But the facts of life in a Lancaster County commissioner race aren’t so fun...
2003-10-08 09:21:56
P.j. Reilly
"I don't know why we picked this fight to begin with," said Stephen L. Mohr of Bainbridge, who sits on the agency's board of commissioners. "It always has been illegal, and we didn't need to make it illegal again."
The commission also decided to pull back on another controversial propo......
2003-09-14 09:24:05
Paula Wolf
Saturday's 12th annual Day of Caring may have marked the official start of the 2003 United Way campaign, but Joan Paxton has been working for months to get ready.
As campaign chairwoman, it's her job to lead a team of volunteers to recruit financial support from businesses and individuals acr...
2003-09-12 11:07:04
Justin Quinn; Carrie Caldwell
"We need a team in the commissioners' office that will work hard," Shellenberger said in his opening comments at GOP headquarters on Columbia Avenue. "Pete's 20 years of business experience and my 30 years of business experience, I think, will help tremendously as we approach decisions -- business d...
2003-09-04 10:49:06
Carrie Caldwell
Lancaster County Prothonotary Robert H. Getz Jr. recently resigned as the head of a county committee because of what he calls a "character assassination" campaign against him by County Commissioner Pete Shaub.
Getz later changed his mind after Commissioners Ron Ford and Paul Thibault c......
2003-07-17 13:30:37
Tom Murse
That's because Pennsylvania's campaign-finance system is weaker than most states' in that it allows people to give unlimited amounts of money to politicians -- and, if they want, to conceal their interests.
"At one point, our disclosure laws were actually pretty good. Now everybody's lear...
2003-06-01 00:12:32
Helen Colwell Adams
The buffet line at the county Democrats' Thursday reception at Carr's Restaurant was stocked with an assortment of cheeses, quiche and crudites with dip.
That might have been the healthiest spread of the spring campaign.
When the county Republicans held their banquet earlier this month...
2003-05-28 10:26:01
Justin Quinn
Constitution Party National Chairman Jim Clymer says he's testing the waters for a run at Lancaster County commissioner.
Clymer, of Millersville, a former Republican, picked up his nominating papers from the elections office Tuesday, but said he is not officially announcing his......
2003-05-21 10:00:59
Justin Quinn
The conservative Republicans beat county controller Dennis Stuckey, former county commissioner Jim Huber, recorder of deeds Steve McDonald and county Youth Intervention Center worker Scott Martin.
In the three-way Democratic primary, former city health director Molly Hender......
2003-05-20 16:07:49
Tom Murse
The informal survey of more than 70 voters at 18 polling places across the county found that nearly 30 percent voted for Shaub and 25 percent voted for Shellenberger.
Republicans Jim Huber and Dennis Stuckey trailed with 20 percent and 15 percent, respectively. Steve McDonald and Scott Ma...
2003-05-19 10:39:12
Helen Colwell Adams
One of the weirdest races in recent memory.
All of that, and more.
And that's just the Republicans.
And it's not over yet.
With the clock ticking down to Tuesday's primary, it's anybody's guess as to who will emerge with each party's two nominations for the fall e......
2003-05-19 09:54:17
Justin Quinn
In February, Shaub seemed to have the local Republican party's backing locked up. But after ethical questions dogged him a week before the party's endorsement convention, Shaub failed to capture the GOP's support and sent the primary into a tailspin.
When only restaurate......
2003-05-06 09:53:10
Justin Quinn
After thanking U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts for arranging his visit to the Lancaster County GOP spring dinner and U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter for arranging transportation, DeLay voiced his support for U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, who has come under fire recently for comments he made comparing homosex......
2003-04-03 08:54:25
Justin Quinn
The survey analyzed candidate strengths and weaknesses in the six-way race for county commissioner in the Republican primary. Two of the candidates will be nominated to run in the November general election.
Anne Gardner, the PAC's vice chair, said the organization wanted a ......
2003-03-29 19:42:41
Helen Colwell Adams
A year ago, it hit Lancaster County like a magnitude-8 earthquake: John Barley was quitting the state House of Representatives.
And the aftershocks are still rippling through county politics.
On the surface, the most visible change has been in the county's House delegation, which now i...
2003-02-04 13:57:43
Jack Brubaker
Those are some conclusions drawn from a study of Old Order Amish migration patterns by Mark A. Hornberger. The study appears in the current Journal of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Millersville University.
Hornberger, a retired geography professor at Bloomsburg University,...
2002-12-22 10:55:14
Helen Colwell Adams
Don't tell Stephen Medvic the old jokes about "campaign ethics" being a contradiction in terms. He's heard 'em all.
To the point that in the first paragraph of a new book, Medvic and his co-authors wrote, "It is difficult to blame those who think that [ic]campaign ethics[nm] is an oxymoron."...
2002-12-09 15:27:40
Tom Murse
Well, I have my own list: The biggest duds of 2002. They're the ones you didn't read the first time around, or, if you did, you probably wished afterward that you could somehow retrieve those precious few minutes of life gone by.
Some of the issues held great promise at first, but later fizzl...
2002-12-08 08:39:47
But Zimmerman, who died Friday evening at Reading Hospital after a brief illness, had other, less-well-known facets of his personality.
There was the dry humor that kept House seatmate Katie True chuckling.
And the convictions that led Zimmerman to let colleagues know just where he sto...
2002-12-03 09:25:09
Justin Quinn
Local conservatives are decrying a bill passed by the House and Senate last week that would strengthen the state's Ethnic Intimidation Law to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
If signed by Republican Gov. Mark S. Schweiker within the next month, Pennsylvania would become the 28t...
2002-12-02 11:22:55
Helen Colwell Adams
If 2002 turns out to be an especially good year for WGAL-TV, the station can give some credit to George Gekas and Tim Holden.
The wild 17th Congressional District race, which cost around $7 million, contributed to Lancaster's WGAL airing more political ads than any other TV station in Pennsyl...
2002-11-16 09:14:17
Lori Van Ingen
Incomplete contributions come from businesses that have many branches, some of which have not gotten their money in yet.
Completed contributions this year to date total $4,950,919, up 2.5 percent over the 2001 year-to-date record of $4,830,165, according to Joe Molony, the 2002 campaign chair...
2002-11-12 09:48:11
Campaigns end, campaigns begin Races are on for county commissioners and judge
The race for......
