by Daniel Klotz on January 27, 2012
In the coming months, I would like to begin spying on towns that are a lot like Lancaster. I want to monitor them remotely over the Web, to get a sense of what is going on in those cities that (…)
by Daniel Klotz on May 17, 2011
Expect more Census 2010 posts to come. For now, here’s Latino population growth as it has contributed to Lancaster city’s overall population: As you can see, the Latino population of Lancaster city has increased from 21 percent to 39 percent (…)
by Daniel Klotz on February 19, 2011
The greatest threat to democracy in the United States is the growing inequality of wealth. (The causes of that inequality, including the unchecked power of multinational mega-corporations, are important, too.) Thomas Jefferson recognized massively disproportionate distribution of wealth as a (…)
by Daniel Klotz on November 21, 2010
The cover story in the current issue of Time, “Who Needs Marriage? A Changing Institution,” shares the results of a new Pew Research Center study on how, as a nation, our attitudes toward marriage have changed over the past fifty years. (…)
by Daniel Klotz on December 11, 2009
A fresh report from the Pennsylvania State Data Center reports that in 2007, the most recent year for which data is available, 1.2 million Christmas trees were harvested within the state. The counties that contributed the most trees to the (…)
