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Follow a photojournalist adapting smartphones, finding new ways to make technology work in journalism.Working for the York Daily Record/Sunday News since 1984, I have always been an early adopter of new technology.
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Thank yourself for lower gas prices
It wasn’t drilling or a windfall profit tax that has made the price of gasoline go down almost 30 cents in the past few weeks. U.S. fuel consumption was down 2.4 percent over the past four week a U.S. Energy … Continue reading
VIDEO A Soldier’s story
( Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record / Sunday News ) Veteran Barre Shepp interprets a soldier’s life during a ceremony at the Korean War Memorial that marks the 55th anniversary of the signing of an armistice that brought a … Continue reading
VIDEO Remembering his soldier father
(Paul Kuehnel – inyork.com/ydr) Jayden Klunk was 3 when his father died in Iraq in 2003. Sarah Klunk has not told her son about his father’s suicide in Baghdad. For Jayden, his father is his hero.
Rain collection system – Part 3
My 55 gallon plastic barrels are recycled from Anderson’s Car Wash. They cost $8 a piece and originally held bio-degradable detergent. The rain collection unit is placed under my deck with a spigot coming out of the lattice, so it … Continue reading
Rain collection system – Part 2
One of my hobbies is building hot water heating systems. I love to tune up an old steam radiator system. I am at home with pipes so my only reference for this project is my brain and maybe some inherited … Continue reading
Rain collection system – Part 1
A couple weeks ago I sat in my yard pondering the sky during a storm. Freedom comes from the sky (6/30) The idea is that the sun and rain that falls above my yard cannot be taxed, resold to me … Continue reading
VIDEO Water main break
( Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record / Sunday News ) South George Street was closed to traffic between King and Market streets after the pipe began leaking around 5 a.m. Wednesday.
VIDEO Shalom to rabbis old and new
( Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record / Sunday News ) Temple Beth Israel congregants, friends and clergy from the wider community welcome Rabbi Jeffrey Astrachan and bid farewell to Rabbi Irwin Goldenberg and his wife, Joyce, who are moving … Continue reading
VIDEO Starting a hit-and-miss engine
( Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record / Sunday News ) Shaun Carbaugh, of Jackson Township, shows how to start a 1915 hit-and-miss engine during the Menges Mills Historic, Steam and Gas Show.
What drives my opinion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike leasing deal
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is part of my American heritage. Rolling into a toll booth, I look at it as the gateway to a national treasure of transportation history. I have a vested interest in supporting and preserving it, whether that … Continue reading
Hidden costs will make Turnpike deal a bad one
Interesting opinion article in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Hidden costs will make Turnpike deal a bad one Summary: Huge unseen financial incentives pull from the tax base during the deal Costs associated with ensuring the contract gets inforced With tax subsidies … Continue reading
Leasing the Pennsylvania Turnpike is a bad idea – part 2
I was walking around my village today and a couple neighbors were responding to my blog entry Why can’t “WE” keep making a profit on the turnpike? (6/25) One neighbor was blaming Gov. Ed Randell for siphoning the money off … Continue reading
VIDEO Wild horse adoption
Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record / Sunday News The Bureau of Land Managment holds a wild horse adoption program at the Red Man Ranch & Arena in Shrewsbury Township. Prominent ribcages, scars and shyness made it obvious the animals … Continue reading
Gas vs. electric lawn mowers – Part 4 – my conclusion
I supposed the clinical thing to do would be to calculate cost vs. environmental impact and come up with a nice squeaky green conclusion, but recently my conclusions seem to be made more out a belief that our open (“free” … Continue reading
Gas vs. electric lawn mowers – Part 3
Dragging a cord around isn’t really an issue with some planning. The maximum length needs to be the maximum distance from your outlet. The trick is always working your way away from your power source. I tried mowing forward and … Continue reading
Oil declines, but hold the applause
Oil closed at $136.04 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, down 3.8%, the biggest daily loss in value since March 19. In a monthly report released on Tuesday, the Energy Information Administration projected that U.S. petroleum consumption will … Continue reading
Gas vs. electric lawn mowers – Part 2
The Lawn-boy’s 2-cycle engine is a mostly marvelously simple, low maintenance machine. You get a power stroke every other stroke instead of one in every every stroke for a four-stroke engine. Dump a small can of 2-cycle oil in the … Continue reading
Gas vs. electric lawn mowers – Part 1
I have debated the benefit of using an electric lawn mower over a gas powered mower for some time. I never spend more than about $10 for a lawn mower, as people usually throw them out and they still work … Continue reading
VIDEO Camp encourages young Catholics to consider the priesthood
Paul Kuehnel – York Daily Record/Sunday News Quo Vadis Days is a time for young men from the Diocese of Harrisburg to learn about the priesthood, meet seminarians in an active environment, and learn how to discern whether God is … Continue reading
We all dwell in a house of one room
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof! In such places standing alone on the mountaintop it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make — leaves … Continue reading
