The LuLac Edition #3000, July 25th, 2015

LULAC @ 3000

Today LuLac reaches its 3,000th edition. For the last nine years and change we have been on line consistently chronicling the politics of Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties as well as events on a State, National and sometimes International basis. (Our only extended time off has been when there has been a health issue. But even with that, I think we might have missed under a month on two different occasions in nearly a decade). We have also delved into history, pop culture and occasional silliness.
LuLac has not had regular posts but rather editions where we strove to present a structured snapshot of what is current and what we think about that particular subject. We have also invited guest posts as well as publishing over 17, 552 comments from readers. That number might have been higher but we choose to edit some of them or not publish a few at all.
Our thanks go out to our readers, our posters as well as the good work done by local news sources that sometimes feed the fire. But our main thanks has to go out to the citizens who populate the political world. Their very existence assures that there will always be something to report on. Our greatest asset are the human beings who populate the worlds of leadership. Now more than ever politics has morphed into celebrity. When John F. Kennedy Junior started “George” Magazine (and we are not comparing LuLac to “George” so the haters out there can relax) in the 90s, he wanted to bring the world of politics to the forefront of pop culture. If only he were alive to see the circus today. 
There are some readers who have complained that this is not the same LuLac that hey remember.  We are told we are not as even handed as before and then we are also told that we tend to bend over backwards in being too fair. Plus there are others who tell us we are too liberal, others say that we are reactionary on social issues and a few who still play the baby killer card. The biggest complaint is that no reader can ever fully predict the path Lulac will take on any given day. The latter is our greatest compliment and tells me we are on the right track. 
So at 3,000 and nearly a million page views (those are real numbers folks, not astronomical fantasies made up by some sites) we will continue to report and opine on the passing parade of politics and pop culture. Years ago the late Bill Luksic Senior had a column in The Sunday Independent. I had encountered him a few times working for candidates and when I was involved in the media. He once told me, “Politicians will never get tired of people writing about them, even good or bad….but I might get tired of writing about them”. 
So far that day has not come for us.
On to 3001.
(3,000  logo, kbimages).