Daniel Klotz

Lancaster County, PA and the Cultural Creatives

Month: November, 2009

Lancaster’s Most Wanted, Nov. 29

Each week the Lancaster City Police Department posts a “Top 10 Warrant List of Persons,” a list of the most wanted criminals in Lancaster, PA. As you might expect, it’s mostly about parking tickets. Today I’m kicking off a new category on this blog, Public Safety, with what I expect will be a weekly reposting [...]

4 Ways to Gear Up for Christmas

With Thanksgiving come and gone, it’s now legal and appropriate to shift into the Christmas season. I’m pretty nuts about the holiday, and part of the reason is all the great celebratory art. Put this stuff on you computer and get in the yuletide spirit. 1. Download Deep Tracks of Christmas Music You need these [...]

City Council Officially Supports Single-Payer Universal Healthcare

With the estimate in hand that single-payer universal healthcare in Pennsylvania would mean that each year “$38.5 million could be saved in Lancaster County,” Lancaster city council voted last week to endorse two bills before the state legislature that would make it happen. NewsLanc reports that Philadelpha, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, West Reading, and Wilkes Barre [...]

Punk musican Ian MacKaye in town Nov. 20

Punknews.com announced that “legendary musician” Ian MacKaye will speak at Franklin & Marshall College the evening of Friday, November 20. The event is being hosted by the college’s student radio station, WFNM. MacKaye was the frontman of influential punk bands The Fugazi, Minor Threat, and The Evens. He is also something of a figurehead for [...]

2010 Census Site Unveiled

The U.S. Census Bureau has launched a new website for the 2010 census, 2010.census.gov. According to reporting from USA Today: The website launches an all-out marketing campaign to get people to fill out their Census questionnaires next April. The population is counted every 10 years, and the numbers are used to reapportion seats in Congress [...]