ICYMI: Here's what Lancaster County residents should know about Legionnaires' disease lancasteronline.com/news/health/...

La Academia Partnership Charter School CEO Mark Simms is no longer leading the school and school administrators are not disclosing why. lanc.news/4bGbx2C

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

UAE is pushing hard for Trump to order a US ground invasion of Iran. Kuwait and Bahrain are also backing the idea, according to a Gulf diplomat. Gulf countries are privately urging Trump to continue the war until Iran is "decisively defeated", according to U.S., Gulf and Israeli officials. -AP

New: The White House is signaling that reopening the Strait of Hormuz is not a must-have to end the Iran War, potentially setting the stage for Iran to continue to flex its strategic position over one of the world's busiest oil shipping channels for the foreseeable future

State Rep. Tom Jones, an East Donegal Republican, said he noticed the strain that late budgets place on public schools, headstart programs and social services agencies. lancasteronline.com/news/politic...

A statement issued by the district said it has not yet determined her official last day. Nell is three years into a five-year contract. lancasteronline.com/news/local/e...

"Our customers are feeling the rising costs everywhere — everything from when they go into their department store or their grocery store,” said Jenni Leister of Bunyaad Marketplace in Lititz. “This is not a way to make the world a more just and equitable place for all.” From @wdownard.bsky.social

"By one estimate, dairies that employ immigrant workers produce 79 percent of the nation’s milk supply and the price of milk would double without them." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

Fun fact: NYTimes has been pretty public about intentionally avoiding the term “Christian nationalism.” I think there are entirely defensible reasons for this, and, also, those reasons are unconvincing to me and it doesn’t surprise me that very few other major outlets have the same posture.

WASHINGTON (AP) — TSA says most of its workers got paid Monday for at least two paychecks missed as ongoing shutdown clogged airports.

BREAKING: TSA workers should begin getting paid as soon as today, official says, as airports around the country report a return to normalcy

Bank of America has reached a $72.5m (£54.6m) settlement in a lawsuit brought on behalf of victims of Jeffrey Epstein, who accused the bank of facilitating his sex trafficking operation. JP Morgan Chase & Deutsche Bank previously agreed to pay out $290m and $75m respectively.

Iranian strike on Kuwaiti power and water plant stokes infrastructure fears ft.trib.al/TeG686k

Global effects of attacking Iran already include significant shifts back to coal, steel production slowed, fertilizer production shuttered, small businesses closing, rationing, school closures to save energy. Return to normalcy will take years after truce. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/b...

President Donald Trump says an important part of the $400 million ballroom he is building for the White House is a "massive military complex" underneath it that was supposed to remain secret. bit.ly/41A5xlZ 📸: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

Lancaster County reader letter: "Let us look for candidates who can listen and form opinions about new ideas based on their life experience — not their potential promotion to higher office or the next election." lancasteronline.com/opinion/lett...

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump began with an update about Iran but soon pivoted to a different priority: his planned $400 million White House ballroom. “A lot of people are giving it really good reviews,” the president said. Polls have found most Americans oppose the project.

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

I have felt a little nuts listening to experts and then seeing how, broadly, the world hasn't caught up to the severity of all this. but it really seems like when the gap begins to close, it is gonna close fast. something @matteowong.bsky.social and i tried to get at here:

The fact that this happens so frequently is a strong indicator that The New York Times is doing this on purpose. The odds that you’d just randomly meet a first year law student in Oxford, Mississippi … versus seeking out and quoting members of the Republican Party.

This👇.

“.. US government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Gift link, because if it's Sunday, it's @willbunch.bsky.social time: share.inquirer.com/YDHhzH

“It’s hard to raise kids in this environment when you don’t know what the future holds and you can’t be sure what this administration will do next.” Story, photos and videos from yesterday's No Kings event in Lancaster, PA lancasteronline.com/news/local/n...

“It’s hard to raise kids in this environment when you don’t know what the future holds and you can’t be sure what this administration will do next.” Story, photos and videos from yesterday's No Kings event in Lancaster, PA lancasteronline.com/news/local/n...

"They are parents, students, shopkeepers, engineers, bakers, doctors, guides and grandparents — just like us. While policymakers speak in the language of deterrence and escalation, real human beings absorb the consequences." lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

EDITORIAL: "If state law treated these crimes with the severity proportionate to the harm they cause, what might the minimum punishment in this case have been? We’re guessing more than one hour of community service per victim." lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...

Some news for those who subscribe to and read (thank you!) the print edition of LNP | LancasterOnline. lancasteronline.com/news/local/l...

For all intents and purposes, Iran has effective control of the Strait of Hormuz. It’s going to take a lot to shake that loose! (Even a U.S.-aligned regime would benefit from control, it’s going to take a lot of stick and a lot of carrot to get Iran to give this up.)

Some news for those who subscribe to and read (thank you!) the print edition of LNP | LancasterOnline. lancasteronline.com/news/local/l...

Video and photos from No Kings rally in Lancaster, PA lancasteronline.com/news/local/n...

www.ft.com/content/4f09... Genuinely hard to overstate how much of a strategic defeat it would be for the United States if the war ends with effective Iranian control of the Strait.

Lots of folks showed up for No kings in little red Lancaster,PA

EDITORIAL: "If state law treated these crimes with the severity proportionate to the harm they cause, what might the minimum punishment in this case have been? We’re guessing more than one hour of community service per victim." lancasteronline.com/opinion/edit...

"They are parents, students, shopkeepers, engineers, bakers, doctors, guides and grandparents — just like us. While policymakers speak in the language of deterrence and escalation, real human beings absorb the consequences." lancasteronline.com/opinion/colu...

Protestors were beginning to gather in Lancaster city Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s administration as a part of the nationwide “No Kings” protest. lanc.news/4dOxdei

“Young MAGA is causing this divide because they’re concerned about being drafted.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Rosatom says situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant keeps deteriorating reut.rs/4syueLD

BREAKING via @cbsnews.com: About a dozen U.S. service members were injured in an attack on Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, according to multiple U.S. officials. A small number sustained very serious injuries; others were considered seriously injured. @JimLaPorta @ellee_watson and me.

Iranian missiles and drones have hit Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan Air Base, damaging several US refuelling aircraft. It’s the second strike on the base.

A very Trump 2 sequence of events here: 1. Trump creates problem 2. Senate resolves problem, exercising constitutional authority of Congress 3. House GOP rejects solution 4. Trump takes unlawful steps to "solve" problem, seizing the rightful authority of Congress with the assent of the House GOP

mike johnson’s make work the past year has been nullifying the House, and thus Congress, as a constitutional actor

By my estimates*, the oil shock underway represents the biggest supply disruption ever, but is (so far) short-lived, and is hitting a world economy that's less energy-dependent than at any point since the 60s. At the current burn rate, it will cross the 1973 threshold somewhere in late August:

Jeffries on his party’s beef with funding ICE as it exists today: “Republicans in that one big ugly bill created a $75 billion slush fund so that taxpayer dollars could be used to brutalize and kill American citizens. That's what Democrats object to.”

Cases of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe type of pneumonia, have been reported in Lancaster County. lanc.news/4lSs1YN

Doesn’t seem great!

A bomb threat drew police with drones and bomb-sniffing dogs to Strasburg Rail Road on Friday morning, closing the popular Strasburg Township tourist attraction, but a thorough search of the property has turned up nothing. lanc.news/4lYxEoD

Feb 3 2025: Musk tweets about putting USAID "into the wood chipper" which led to hundreds of thousands of deaths. Later that day Zuckerberg texted Musk to say he would censor content threatening DOGE & "Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help." Actively helping destroy govt agencies.

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.