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 shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.” – Stendal

• “Don’t die stupid” – That’s the title of the “you should read this” Cal Thomas opinion column that was in newspapers recently. – The Washington Examiner

• 2102 Columbia Borough Meeting dates are shown at the end of this post – Borough Council, commissions, boards, Municipal Authority

• Your assistance is needed; put a lifesaving device in every police car. – Columbia Borough Website

• Here we go … HOGTIME for schools at the trough … they don’t want to stop! “The York City School District will seek exceptions from the state that would allow the board to raise taxes by up to 17 percent.The Act 1 index limits the district to a 2.7 percent tax increase, but the exceptions would allow the district to go higher.” – York Daily Record [EDITOR’S NOTE: Every time we see the tax increases being levied by insatiable government entities and schools, we are reminded of “Feed me” from “Little Shop of Horrors. They all  just get bigger and bigger … and want more to eat … to get bigger and bigger. See the video clip at the end of this column.]
  

• Good transparency example in East Donegal Township … while researching for another topic, we happened across this communication from the township to its citizens clearly presented at the township Website homepage … the 2012 Budget Handout for its citizens.

• Eastbound Route 30 to be Restricted on Thursday to a Single Lane on Wrights Ferry Bridge over Susquehanna River – PennDOT
• To protect, serve and get a date – “A suburban Chicago police officer used a $132 speeding ticket he issued to track down a woman and ask her for a date, saying the least he could do for costing her so much money was to buy her dinner, a lawsuit filed by the woman alleges.” – LawOfficer e-news
• … and the outrage with bad politicians continues – Letters to the Editors, Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• “A policy requiring York City School District middle schoolers to wear jeans and solid-colored polo shirts kicked into effect when students returned from holiday break this week.” – York Daily Record
• POLICE LOG: “MOUNT JOY: Marcus B. Kitch, 24, of 301 Cherry St., Apt. 2, Columbia, was charged after an incident Dec. 24 at North High Street and Appletree Alley. Kitch also was cited with careless driving and driving under suspension.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
• Pennsylvania’s final re-apportionment map … the result of the political game-playing to keep or get a spot at the trough!
• 2102 Columbia Borough Meeting dates

• Feed me!