It’s Time for Lancaster’s New Era

When I was younger, I visited the historic site where George Washington’s chair still sits — the one with the half-sun carved into its back. I learned the story of how Benjamin Franklin looked at that chair during the Constitutional Convention and wondered whether the sun was rising or setting. In the end, he decided it was a rising sun — a symbol of hope for a new nation.

But now, as I reflect on that chair and this country, I know the sun cannot rise forever.

I believe we’ve already passed sunset. That doesn’t mean the nation is over. It means we are in the night.

And in the night, we get to work.

This is not a time to mourn the day that’s passed — it is a time to build toward a new dawn. Not with the same assumptions, not with blind optimism, but with the grit and vision to work through the darkness. Because if there is to be another morning in America, it will be made by those who stayed up through the night to make it so. Third shift employees often don’t get the credit they deserve for keeping the country running, but we need them.

I can’t promise a new day for America. I can’t even promise that the sun will rise tomorrow on Lancaster…

But the sun does rise in the East.

And the People’s Administration will work — every day and every night — to ring in Lancaster’s New Era.

We are working through the night; working to Build a City That Works for Everyone.