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

Quote for today… “Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.” ~Author Unknown

Tide wins on opening night– 2011; other high school Football scores

• http://www.gametimepa.com’s report on the game: “Columbia gets the best of Eastern York“
• LEGAL NOTICE published in Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era today: “Legal Notice – Notice is hereby given that the Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia at its regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, September 12, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. in the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania, intends to consider for adoption an Ordinance of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania amending the Code of the Borough of Columbia, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, to rewrite the Borough of Columbia Earned Income Tax Ordinance as codified in Chapter 194 of the Code of the Borough of Columbia so as to be consistent with Pennsylvania Act 32 of 2008 as recently amended. A copy of the Ordinance may be inspected at the Municipal Building, 308 Locust Street, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and at the Lancaster Law Library located at 50 North Duke Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania during regular business hours. Zimmerman, Pfannebecker, Nuffort & Albert, LLP.” [NOTE: The tax is described at the Borough Website as:  “A tax for general revenue purposes, at the rate of 1%, subject to the maximum rate as permitted under Section 8 of the Enabling Act, is hereby restated and amended on earned income received and net profits earned by individual residents of the Borough during the calendar year 2000 (or taxpayer’s fiscal year beginning in said calendar year) and during each year thereafter (on a calendar or taxpayer fiscal year basis), without reenactment, until this article shall be repealed or the rate of tax changed.”]
• Labor Day things to do in Lancaster and York Counties (www.fox43.com)
• The Hershey Bears on Thursday announced their 2011-12 promotion schedule; this year’s schedule includes this promotions that will take place at the Bears home game on Dec. 18: The Turkey Hill Experience Gift Card Night – The first 3,000 fans will receive a $10 gift card for The Turkey Hill Experience, courtesy of Turkey Hill. (Source: The Harrisburg Patriot-News)
• Manos House to move to former convent (Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)
• This from the Wall Street Journal, “World leaders gathered here (Paris) to show united support for the rebels who toppled Col. Moammar Gadhafi and to discuss how best they can help rebuild the North African country, but a rift emerged over who should get first access to Libya’s oil and natural gas riches.” The Wall Street Journal now charges for site access; this article, though, suggests that the victors are now arguing about which nations should get the spoils of war. Should the nations that helped in government change should get the oil? Or should other nations get the oil. And they said this was a war over “human rights?” According to a report at thedailybeast.com, “While meeting in Paris to discuss Libya’s future, world leaders who pledged support to the rebels have begun to spar over one important asset: oil. Representatives of 63 countries said at the “friends of Libya” conference that they hoped to avoid the pitfalls of Iraq, but divisions emerged for access to oil among the countries that urged for military intervention to overthrow Col. Muammar Gaddafi and those that did not, such as Russia and China. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé argued for French companies to have first access to Libyan contracts and reconstruction, since France was the first country in March to acknowledge the rebels’ provisional government. Russia, meanwhile, argued that the United Nations should take the lead on Libya’s reconstruction.”
• Give the kids jobs! “How can the world avoid an explosion of youth protests in the coming years when we are already experiencing an epidemic of youth unemployment today? And how can our generation—who fared better than our parents—begin to understand what it feels like for the coming generation who already fear they will do worse?” (The Daily Beast)
• Stocks dive – “U.S. stock futures plunged Friday after the government said that the economy added no net jobs last month and the unemployment rate was unchanged at 9.1 percent. The report was the weakest in almost a year. It reflects fears that the economy might slip back into recession.”