For years, I was registered to vote as a Republican. I saw myself as part of a tradition going back to national politicians I admire including Dwight Eisenhower, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Eventually, I left the party over the racism that party leaders were willing to tolerate, if not embrace. I never thought I’d… Read More »
It was more than 10 years ago that I showed up in Elizabethtown for the first time. I had been living in Philadelphia, where I’d worked for The Associated Press since 1998, mostly working night shifts to cover the news of Pennsylvania. But I’d reported for three small-town daily newspapers before that, so I knew… Read More »
Well, as everyone knows by now, there’s a global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus. The Peace Corps announced in March that it was recalling all of its volunteers worldwide. I checked at that point and was told that things could change, but that I should continue to plan for a June 2 departure. Then, on… Read More »
Hi, I’m Dan Robrish. I’m best known as the founder of The Elizabethtown Advocate, a weekly newspaper in central Pennsylvania. I started the paper in 2010 after more than 11 years working in the Philadelphia bureau of The Associated Press. In 2017, I sold the paper to a division of the LNP Media Group and… Read More »