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The cameras never sleep. That's evidently the way Lancaster likes it.

A private network of 158 surveillance cameras keeps watch night and day at key intersections and public spaces around town.

That's one camera for every 375 residents.

That sounds like a lot, but Lancaster Community Safety...

Last week, North Carolinians approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting gay marriage.

Because gay marriage already was illegal there, all the vote proved is that, by incorporating discrimination into its Constitution, North Carolina still clings to its antebellum roots.

On the other hand,...

A proposed display of McCaskey High School sports memorabilia in a huge lobby case would feature a painting of McCaskey alumnus Barney Ewell, according to a recent story.

That's appropriate because Ewell has no peer, in terms of track and field, in the history of McCaskey or Pennsylvania high s...

David Rusk, a Washington-based urban policy consultant and former mayor of Albuquerque, N.M., visited Lancaster about 30 times in 2009 and 2010 as an adviser to the county planning department.

With an eye to boosting the county's economic competitiveness, Rusk took note of economically segregated...

At the dawn of the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s, African-Americans were segregated by race in housing in this country. Separation from white culture was legally mandated in the South and de facto in the North. Recognizing segregation as patently unfair, various groups lobbied successfully for ...

 

Usually I get it from one side. Last week, I got it from both sides.
Which is to say that while the usual conservative suspects were outraged that I would give credence to the "war on women," liberals were angry with me for suggesting that the term itself is mostly a rhetorical construct, ...

 

When daughter Abigail got her learner's permit a few months ago, I was appreciative of those drivers who saw a nervous teenager behind the wheel and treated her with patience as we drove our neighborhood and the country roads close by.
Her first excursions around our part of the Southern E...

President Barack Obama's support of same-sex marriage has been portrayed by some as a "gamble."

A "rare moment of risk-taking."

A move that could "carry a political cost" in November.

"CONTROVERSY OVER GAY MARRIAGE," USA Today huffed. "President takes sides in political gamble."

"Obama B...

Can a teenager from Colerain Township come to the rescue of a fat nation?

Probably not. We like our bacon, egg and cheese biscuits too much. Mmmmm.

But I'm still going to root for 17-year-old Tyler McCardell. After all, it's not every high school junior who can cite childhood obesity statistic...

I was a guest speaker at an event over the weekend and, before my speech, one of the attendees asked me how a boy from Ephrata could be such a flaming liberal.

I blame Ephrata's Fulton Street Elementary School.

In 1953-1954, the school had the temerity to be built right across the street from ...