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today’s news … Wednesday, December 7

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

Quote for today… “A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.” – H.L. Mencken

  • … and all this sounds perfectly normal, right? “Nearly $10,000 from Springetts park event stolen – About $9,500 in proceeds from Springettsbury Township’s annual Saturday in the Park event were stolen from a township employee’s vehicle while it was parked outside a Lancaster County gym.” – York Dispatch
  • “December 7, 1941 may be a day that “will live in infamy,” but that month, those years, that war revealed an American character still on display in our military today, though it’s somewhat lacking in our civilian population.” Tribune Media Service syndicated columnist, Cal Thomas, writes about the Pearl Harbor attack, now 70 years ago, that defined generations in this nation.
  • While there was a “meeting of meetings” last evening at the Columbia borough hall, only about a half-dozen citizens – and no prospective or “announced prospective” councilors –  showed up for the three meetings scheduled: the legislative committee; the property committee and the special borough council meeting. Here are the agendas for two of those meetings: Special council meeting & Legislative committee meeting.
  • “Columbia buys land between bridges – Columbia Borough Council members agreed Tuesday to take ownership of 12.85 acres from Norfolk Southern at a sale price of $100,308.” – MyColumbiaNews
  • The Statue of Liberty in the middle of the Susquehanna? Yep. Click this link to see the video.
  • Food serving establishments’ inspections during November in Columbia … Club Goodtimes & CAP Headstart
  • “Sixteen-year-old twin brothers and their 9-year-old sister died Tuesday when their vehicle collided with another car in Rapho Township, according to state police. Officials did not release the names of the victims but said they are from the Manheim area. The siblings are not students in the Manheim Central School District. State police said they did not know where they attended school.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • Letters to the editor in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era from writers in Columbia and Washington Boro.
  • Empty promise from Creighton – Lancaster New Era Editorial
  • New Turkey Hill ice cream flavor helps celebrate 250 years of Millersville pride – Turkey Hill Ice Cream Journal
  • “York councilman wants to double proposed tax increase” – York Daily Record
  • and in those rare instances when government does implement cuts to balance budgets … it cuts in the wrong areas! Instead of cutting some of the nonsensical expenses, they cut “transparency and accountability” arms. At the federal level, the Government Accountability Office faces announced cuts (see the GAO article at right); at the state level, the Office of Open Records is the target. – York Daily Record
  • Lancaster joins other towns with free parking for Christmas – “Lancaster Parking Authority will offer free parking for downtown shoppers the week before Christmas. Streetside parking will be free between Monday, Dec. 19, and Saturday, Dec. 24. Signs will be placed on the authority’s multispace kiosks and bags will be placed over meter heads along downtown streets where paid parking is required. A two-hour time limit at the meters will still be enforced. If a vehicle is parked at a meter for more than the allowed time, the vehicle will be ticketed.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

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