Latest Blog Posts for Daniel Klotz: Lancaster County PA and the Cultural Creatives

• In our backyard: wildflowers, chrysanthemums, summer squash
  on Jun 19, 2010 in Arts backyard flowers garden plants
  Amanda and I bought our first house together, here in Lancaster city, just over a year ago. This season we were eager to spruce up our backyard and use the space to do some urban gardening (if it qualifies as that—it’s an unusually large yard...
• Lancaster County Convention Center reaches 1-year mark
  on Jun 16, 2010 in Civic Life convention center
  Laura Duran, the Lancaster County Convention Center’s PR consultant, reports today on her blog that the convention center will be celebrating its one-year anniversary on Friday. Since the official ribbon cutting on June 18, 2009, the integrated...
• Tell me how I’m wrong
  on Jun 3, 2010 in Civic Life
  If BP is truly going to foot the bill to cover all the damages its inconceivably massive oil spill is causing, won’t that cost so much money that BP will go out of business? I’m not an expert in economics, but the monetary liability here...
• The overturning of ‘Don’t Ask Don’t Tell’ is a Brown v Board for gays
  on Jun 2, 2010 in News Analysis pride
  The cultural significance of Congress’ move to overturn “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” is so great that I think the comparison with Brown v. Board of Education is warranted. This should be a moment of great pride for many good...
• Ethan Demme is running for Lancaster GOP Chair
  on Jun 1, 2010 in Civic Life GOP
  I’m heartened and excited by Ethan Demme’s announcement that he is running as a candidate for Chairman of the Lancaster County Republican Committee. His announcement was covered first by Tom Murse of the Intelligencer Journal, and then Et...
• To do ‘local’ right, we need to learn our history
  on May 31, 2010 in Civic Life history
  I've been thinking lately about how more and more of our focus right now culturally is about what's local and what's nearby. I watch the national political talk shows and read national magazines and I think this stuff is so detached from me and Washi...
• Holy smokes
  on May 10, 2010 in News Tips
  The ash plume from Eyjafjallajokull Volcano, Iceland is an amazing sight. This NASA photograph was taken on Saturday (May 8th).
• Spill, baby, spill
  on Apr 29, 2010 in News Analysis Public Safety
  Digging for fossil fuel is never safe. It’s never safe for humans, and it’s never safe for the wild areas in which we humans allow the digging. The inconceivably massive oil spill we are witnessing on the Gulf Coast should remind us of th...
• John McCain’s Lancaster appearance featured on Fox News Sunday
  on Apr 19, 2010 in Civic Life politics
  Chris Wallace pressed John McCain hard this Sunday to explain why he no longer describes himself as a “maverick,” which he did so fervently and frequently while campaigning for president in 2008. Wallace used a video clip of McCain speaki...
• Bear with me as this blog changes
  on Apr 9, 2010 in Arts
  Please bear with me as I give the design of this blog a drastic overhaul.

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