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… “Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. – Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-born U.S. political philosopher.

• New PBS show, “Market Warriors” goes to Renninger’s Antiques, Tonight @ 9:00 pm.

• Columbia shooting update: One culprit caught! $1,000,000 bail set!– MyColumbiaNews

• GOOD IDEA; ENFORCING LAWS! – “Swatara Twp. police on Saturday morning handed out traffic citations to about a dozen drivers for failing to yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Brush, Brush, Smile! at the Library tomorrow

• Letters to the editors in today’s Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Overspent municipalities. As this quote from the editorial in today’s Intelligencer Journal suggests, there are numerous Pennsylvania municipalities which now have to pay the piper for ill-conceived political decisions. Lancaster mayor, Rick Gray said, ‘”We’re going downstream. I can hear the waterfalls, I just can’t see them, yet. Some cities already have gone over the falls.” Stop spending.

• Red Rose Transit Authority‘s (RRTA) Medical Assistance Transportation Program will continue to operate every day as federal funding for the new fiscal year arrived. The RRTA director said “he has no idea how much money he’ll get for it from the state this year.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• “Neck tattoo keeps Harrisburg woman out of the Army until she finishes removal process” – Harrisburg Patriot-News [NOTE: The link in the article to the US Army’s tattoo policy is broken; here is a link to AR (Army Regulation) 670-1.]

• Penn State’s release: “”Contrary to various reports, neither the Board of Trustees nor University Administration has taken a vote or made a decision regarding the Joe Paterno statue at Beaver Stadium.” – PennStateLive