today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

• Today’s Weather! 
• Today in History!
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)

Quote for today… “The western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she.” – Charles Kingsley

• Washington’s political merry-go-round! They stay on the ride and keep us off; they just jump from one lucrative public sector job to another. “Postal workers hire former Obama ‘car czar’” – governmentexec.com
• The article about the recent joint meeting (Columbia Borough and Columbia Borough School District) to discuss L.E.R.T.A. appears today in zoned editions of the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era. Click here to read it. In recent years, two other newspaper articles also dealt with Columbia’s L.E.R.T.A. deliberations and discussions; click here to read those articles.
• York County Township looks to L.E.R.T.A – “Township manager Elizabeth Heathcote said the township is pushing to have the deteriorated, underdeveloped, or condemned properties accepted into the county LERTA (Local Economic Revitalization Tax Abatement) program for tax abatement.” – York Dispatch

• Sunday program at Columbia Historic Preservation Society