An article appears with a frowning picture of State Representative Mike Sturla headed "Sturla's nonprofit may be scrutinized by AG." The opening sentences are: "The case of the once-powerful state lawmaker accused of misusing money from a nonprofit he founded is likely to shed light on a small number of similar foundations in Pennsylvania, including one started by Rep. Mike Sturla here. Investigators with the state Attorney General's Office are 'scrutinizing' the nonprofits created by legislators who serve on their boards and get almost all their money from the state, said Kevin Harley, a spokesman for the office."
WATCHDOG: Gee, we figure good old Mike is going to have to do time in the slammer!
But wait: Two thirds down the lengthly articles we discover: "But no one has alleged or even suggested that Sturla or LIVE has done anything wrong. In fact, the nonprofit's IRS filings show the group has funded dozens of projects in the community — playgrounds, book drives, free smoke detectors and the like —with money it received from the state Department of Community and Economic Development."
What a relief! What a con!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
An article from the Associated Press reports: "Gov. Ed Rendell ousted the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's chairman Monday, citing 'overwhelming' evidence that Mitchell Rub accepted $150,000 in taxpayer-paid work that apparently was never done and makes it inappropriate for him to stay on the commission."
WATCHDOG: NewsLanc's investigation of over a million dollars in payments to Dan Logan raises a similar question of what work was performed. The State provided over $20 million in funding for the Convention Center Project. Does it take a conviction for Rendell and his attorney general to take notice?
WATCHDOG: NewsLanc's investigation of over a million dollars in payments to Dan Logan raises a similar question of what work was performed. The State provided over $20 million in funding for the Convention Center Project. Does it take a conviction for Rendell and his attorney general to take notice?
Monday, March 23, 2009
CNN.COM
"The chains that own large metropolitan dailies such as the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune are in bankruptcy. Other papers, large and small, are teetering on the brink.
"On Monday, the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News announced that it will publish its last edition in July. Taking its place will be a Web site called AnnArbor.com.
Three other Michigan newspapers announced Monday they are reducing their publications to three days a week...
"And the Charlotte Observer announced Monday it will cut its staff by 14.6 percent and reduce the pay of most of the employees it keeps."
WATCHDOG: Yet the Lancaster Newspapers continue to publish two dailies and the Sunday News. Hmm.
"On Monday, the Ann Arbor (Michigan) News announced that it will publish its last edition in July. Taking its place will be a Web site called AnnArbor.com.
Three other Michigan newspapers announced Monday they are reducing their publications to three days a week...
"And the Charlotte Observer announced Monday it will cut its staff by 14.6 percent and reduce the pay of most of the employees it keeps."
WATCHDOG: Yet the Lancaster Newspapers continue to publish two dailies and the Sunday News. Hmm.
INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL
In a March 23rd letter to the editor headed "Why I voted against a tax on bonuses", U. S. Rep. Joe Pitts states: "Bonuses are certainly not warranted. But I voted against the bill because I think it was unconstitutional. Retroactive taxes are not good public policy."
WATCHDOG: He's right. A wave of the tail!
WATCHDOG: He's right. A wave of the tail!
Sunday, March 22, 2009
SUNDAY NEWS
On March 22, Gil Smart writes "Yet there was a time when elitism was clearly understood in the manner Black suggests- the economic elite who, the suspicion went, gamed to the system to their benefit."
WATCHDOG: Lancaster is a microcosm of how, over the past decade, a powerful economic elite has worked behind the scenes to manipulate the government and news media to enhance their wealth at the expense of the tax payers.
You don't belong to the economic elite by simply being rich. To qualify for club membership, you either have to be avariciously greedy... or a dupe.
Monday, March 16, 2009
NEWSMAX.COM
The March 16 article entitled "Dalies Dying, But News Business Is Thriving" goes on to say:
"While the business model of many news organizations appears to be fracturing, there's little indication that consumers are losing interest in news, says the Project for Excellence in Journalism....Newspapers have failed to figure out how to make their Web sites profitable, [Tom] Rosenstiel said. They're slow to realize that people aren't going to pay for content in the way they do for traditional newspapers."
"While the business model of many news organizations appears to be fracturing, there's little indication that consumers are losing interest in news, says the Project for Excellence in Journalism....Newspapers have failed to figure out how to make their Web sites profitable, [Tom] Rosenstiel said. They're slow to realize that people aren't going to pay for content in the way they do for traditional newspapers."
Sunday, March 15, 2009
SUNDAY NEWS
In his weekly column, Editor Marv Adams asks "Where would ['web' aggregators] be without the newspapers that originate more than 90 percent of the news in this country?"
WATCHDOG: For most parts of the country, in ten to twenty years the news will come from local web sites that are the successors to the print media. The big issue is whether the web sites will evolve out of the newspapers or will they be founded by others. That's the reason for www.LancasterOnLine.com .
WATCHDOG: For most parts of the country, in ten to twenty years the news will come from local web sites that are the successors to the print media. The big issue is whether the web sites will evolve out of the newspapers or will they be founded by others. That's the reason for www.LancasterOnLine.com .
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