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Quote for today … from George Washington’s Farewell Address: “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”                                                                                                  George Washington, 1796

• from yesterday’s York Dispatch: “Gas price to drop as oil joins commodities plunge“
• from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era: “Cyber grants flap in Solanco School District” and this editorial, “Teachers slow to accept pay freeze” that begins “Columbia School District’s unionized teachers have agreed to freeze their salaries for one year, a contract concession that could save $250,000. That’s the good news for beleaguered taxpayers of that district, many of whom know what it feels like to have their pay frozen. Or cut. Or have their jobs eliminated.” You can read the rest on page A-11 of the newspaper.
• from the York Dispatch: This week’s restaurant inspections.