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today’s news … Thursday, September 1

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

Quote for today… “”Citizens who are bound to take part in public affairs must turn from the private interests and occasionally take a look at something other than themselves.”─ Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

  • Columbia’s Mike Burke is tabbed as one of the “brightest stars. (in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era’s LL Football Preview; buy today’s newspaper at your favorite newsstand, convenience store or restaurant.)

  • Teachers pay for small appliance use. (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
  • Illegal taxi warning issued by state: Rising number of complaints about unregistered vehicles hauling Plain Sect riders. (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
  • A needless war: “American law has been trampled, large sums of money have been torched and our habit of going to war at a moment’s notice has been reinforced.” Read more about the needless intervention in Libya here.
  • “POLICE LOG: MANOR TWP.: Columbia Avenue was closed for several hours in both directions near Mountville Wednesday due to an early morning wreck, township police said. A vehicle crashed in the area of Oak Ridge Drive and the 3800 block of Columbia Avenue about 2:20 a.m., police said. A utility pole was struck, and wires were down for a time.” (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
  • This sucks! “At least 25 companies paid more to their CEOs last year than they paid in federal taxes, according to the Institute for Policy Studies. These include big corporations like General Electric, Boeing, Verizon, and eBay. The companies paid their executives an average of $16.8 million in 2010. Meanwhile, many of these companies actually receive tax refunds from the federal government valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Verizon, for example, gave its CEO an $18 million package while reaping a $705 million tax refund.” Read this New York Times article.
  • Irene costlier than many thought. “”Hurricane Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in the nation’s history, and analysts said that much of the damage might not be covered by insurance because it was caused not by winds but by flooding, which is excluded from many standard policies.” Read thisNew York Times article.

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