Posts Tagged “Lancaster”

Lancaster CSAs

by Daniel Klotz on April 3, 2010

Community-Supported Agriculture Co-Ops in Lancaster, PA With the weather turning warmer, my thoughts turn to fresh produce. And with that, CSAs come to mind. A CSA is a program of community-supported agriculture put together by a single farm or by (…)

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June Employment Stats for Lancaster County

by Daniel Klotz on August 16, 2009

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics just released June 2009 employment figures. Here’s how the month stacked up in Lancaster County, compared to the June numbers from the past ten years: Report problems to embedding@chartle.net The movement is much more (…)

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Lancaster County births in 2008

by Daniel Klotz on August 15, 2009

According to preliminary reports [pdf] from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 7,229 babies were born in Lancaster County in 2008. Only Philadelphia County, Allegheny County, and Montgomery County had more. There were a total of 148,927 births in PA last (…)

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Lancaster Breakfast Tweetup No. 11

by Daniel Klotz on July 17, 2009

A list of attendees of the July 16, 2009 tweetup at the Penn Square Marriott in Lancaster, PA

The impending death of ‘organization man’

by Daniel Klotz on July 6, 2009

In the face of something as powerful, widespread, and simple as Facebook events and Twitter, and in the face of formal organizations of ordinary citizens having far less power than entrenched individuals and corporations, I think we are beginning to see an important trend. The formal organization, inefficient and impotent, is on its way out. The (extremely) loose association, easy and far-reaching, is on its way back in.