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… “Health and intellect are the two blessings of life.” – Menander

• Another “chronicling” of the Monday Council meeting – MyColumbiaNews.com
• Letters to the editors in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era include two writers from Columbia; long live “freedom of speech & freedom of the press.”
• Appears “Newt” is just “one more at the trough”  – Los Angeles Times [NOTE: More here – Newt on the defensive – New York Times]
  
• No exceptions to right-to-know – Lancaster New Era editorial
• POLICE LOG: “EAST DONEGAL TWP.: Connor W. Dougherty, 18, of 216 Sable Drive, Marietta, was cited after he allegedly took $150 worth of medication from a shelf at Rutter’s Farm Store, 1155 River Road, and left without paying Monday night, Susquehanna Regional police said.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Police have no record of call– York Daily Record
  
• Do the right thing – “Millionaires ask Congress to raise their taxes” – CNNMoney