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today’s news … Monday, January 9, 2012

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

Quote for today…“In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.” – Edmund Wilson, Memoirs of Hecate County, 1949.

  • LEGAL NOTICE published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, January 9, 2012: “LEGALNOTICE Notice is hereby given that a Special Meeting of the Columbia Borough Community Development Committee will be held on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. in the Borough Municipal Building, 308 Locust St., Columbia, PA to address Economic Strategic Plan actions and any other business. If you are a person with a disability wishing to attend and require an accommodation to participate in the meeting, please contact the Borough Office at 684-2467. Norman B. Meiskey III Borough Manager”
  • Bigge$t Lo$er … “The (Saturday) night’s big loser (in the GOP debate in New Hampshire) , in fact, was Rick Santorum, who didn’t have a single memorable moment and forfeited the chance to build on his virtual tie in Iowa before a national audience. – The Daily Beast
  • Gonna’ get worse before it gets better – “Tucson’s housing market has fallen so hard so fast that more than one in three homes sold last year went for less than $100,000. Only five or six years ago, at the height of the housing boom, not a single home in the market could be had for less than $100,000 … ” – Arizona Daily Star (Tucson, AZ)
  • On the move! Yesterday’s gas prices (regular) showed a bigger jump at the “east side of town” pumps. [NOTE: The pumps at the Turkey Hill convenience store at the intersection of Lancaster Avenue and Prospect Road are “roped off” and not in operation at the moment. Appears to be having some sort of maintenance being done.”]
  • Tazer dependent cops – “Electroshock weapons fired more frequently by city (Chicago), suburban cops” – Chicago Tribune
  • The need for transparency! – “Between 2003 and 2010, the state (Maine) paid almost $235 million to private organizations run by legislative leaders or the spouses of high-level state officials. But because of a loophole in state law, not one penny of that spending was ever disclosed to the public in ethics filings.” – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting
  • Millersville’s MLK celebration to include Jesse Jackson – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • “Hospice Turns Months-to-Live Patient Into Years of Abusing Drugs” – Bloomburg News Service
  • Throw them out; Columbia news, views & reviews has called for the resignation or dismissal of the Penn State Board of Trustees repeatedly with posts and communications with elected “public servants. Now a former trustee “decries secrecy, demands reform.” – Fox43
  • From previous posts about the Penn State Trustees: “A revelation … when the cover comes off (anywhere), the GOBAG’s cannot be trusted to investigate. Read this editorial in the Penn State University Daily Collegian: “Penn State, bring in outsiders” – The University Faculty Senate does too. What kind of board of trustees or directors allows their organization to run unchecked? Happens all the time with “rubber-stamp” boards, councils, etc. “Penn State trustees say Jerry Sandusky scandal caught them by surprise” – Harrisburg Patriot-News”
  • “Amy R. Fish was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester with a 4.0 grade-point average at the Univer­sity of Maine Honors Col­lege, Orono, Maine, where she is a fresh­man majoring in animal sci­ence/pre-vet. A 2011 graduate of Hempfield High School, she is the daughter of Jim and Debra Fish of Mountville. – Ashley Blount was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Philadel­phia Univer­sity, where she is a junior majoring in fashion indus­try manage­ment. A 2008 graduate of Hempfield High School, she is the daughter of Kristin and Mark Costrello of Lancaster and Scott Blount of Columbia. –  Stefanie M. Kalbach was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Liber­ty University, where she is a junior majoring in family and child development.A graduate of Hempfield High School, she is the daugh­ter of Patricia Kalbach of Co­lumbia. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era
  • Letters to the editors praise actions of Millersville’s Council; side with first-rsponders and encourage term limits – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

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