today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! Today’s Weather!   Today in History!

[EDITOR’S NOTE:] We pulled a favorite book from the shelf; John Adams thought and wrote about the need of government to consider the welfare of future generations. Passages from his writings will appear here for a while. 

Quote for today … “Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it.                              John Adams, 1776.

• from yesterday’s Harrisburg Patriot-News: These kinds of things happen everywhere. “That could never happen here” is the common response; just one more reason why transparency is imperative. “Insider thefts from nonprofit groups leave fellow members shocked, angry and usually unreimbursed”In fact, this article (which originally appeared in the Lancaster Sunday News),“Hands in the cookie jar in Lancaster County, PA” is just one of many listed at Church and School Embezzlement.
• from the York Sunday News: What happens if schools cannot balance the budget? This article looks at the impact for York schools. There’s more about school districts making cuts in today’s Harrisburg Patriot News: “Schools’ arts programs threatened by budget cuts.”
• from the York Sunday News: “In York, preservationists fear a new wave of destruction of historic buildings”