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

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

Quote for today… “Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours.” – Yogi Berra

• “That’s a hell of a way to run a railroad.” “Commuters were again locked out of the Lancaster Amtrak station this morning and had to walk across the tracks to get to their train, they said.” – LancasterOnLine

• “Study says rails-trails are a boon” – MyColumbiaNews

• Link to the “Rails to Trails Conservancy“

• Today’s Intelligencer Journal editorial asks more about the Sick Susquehanna (“‘The (Susquehanna) river is in trouble. Sick fish mean we have a sick river,’ John Arway, head of the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, declared.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era)

• Harrisburg Patriot-News column about a suicide: “Hopeless and alone, you ended your life”

• Here is the OpenPaGov.org Website an interesting database, that answers this question: How are your education tax dollars being spent?” Get answers (and comparisons) to your questions about Pennsylvania’s (a) school performance; (b) school spending; (c) school taxes and (d) school payroll. Note, though, the database information contains 2009-2010 data.

• Solar power is working! “Germany sets solar power record, institute says: German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity – equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity – through the midday hours on Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank said.” – Toronto Globe and Mail