A Public Arts Manager to be hired by Lancaster City

by Daniel Klotz on December 15, 2008

Three weeks ago I wrote that the Lancaster County Community Foundation was giving $200,000 to the City of Lancaster to establish a public arts department. The city is going to use that money to hire a public arts manager, Bernard (…)

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New York Times Magazine Includes F&M Prof in ‘Year in Ideas’

by Daniel Klotz on December 13, 2008

Each year, the New York Times Magazine captures the defining ideas of the past twelve months. “The Year In Ideas 2008″ issue comes out tomorrow, and guess what they included? They included the work of Franklin & Marshall College’s Trexler (…)

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11 Problems You Can Solve in 2009: Part II – Journalism

by Daniel Klotz on December 12, 2008

The Harrisburg Patriot-News offered to buy out many of its employees in October, and many heavyweights took the offer, as Jersey Mike reported. It’s hard to get the full story, as Dennis Owens of ABC-27 in Harrisburg found out: “One (…)

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11 Problems You Can Solve in 2009: Part I – Construction

by Daniel Klotz on December 11, 2008

The current recession will undoubtedly continue into 2009, perhaps bottoming out before summer and then resuming slow growth in the second half of the year. Central Pennsylvania in general, and Lancaster in particular, will be rife with problems. But, there (…)

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Bulova sold; Lancaster Square building to be remodeled

by Daniel Klotz on December 11, 2008

A mix of good and bad news as reported by Patrick Burns in this morning’s Intelligencer Journal: Bulova Technologies, which has a small manufacturing operation downtown at Lancaster Square, has been sold and will be moving to Florida. Forty people (…)

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