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today’s news … Saturday, August 18

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

Quote for today… “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

  • Columbia’s Our Lady of the Angels school is one of the “14 private schools in Lancaster County (which) had been approved by the state to participate” in the state’s new Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program. On the other hand, no county public school systems have. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era (Similar story in York County – York Daily Record)

  • REMINDER – Don’t pet the pig and don’t even think about kissing one! The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) issues this “important information to help protect visitors and livestock. This information can help prevent illnesses associated with animals in public settings.” AND NOW “- The Pennsylvania Department of Health on Friday reported four confirmed and six probable human cases of swine flu linked to the Huntingdon County Fair. The same H3N2v virus recently caused illness in Indiana and Ohio, mostly among children who exhibited or attended agricultural fairs.” – Chambersburg Public Opinion
  • Reject Ryan – Lots of people have now perked up when the learn more about Paul Ryan. He’s looking more and more like Robin Hood in Reverse. His plan takes from the middle and lower economic classes and redistributes it to those at the top. The Alliance for Retired Americans says, Ryan’s budget ideas would “harm the middle class while providing a windfall for millionaires.”
  • Ryan is playing with rich friends in Las Vegas. And an email from Public Citizen claims, “For one of his first assignments, newly chosen Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was dispatched to Las Vegas, Nevada — a.k.a. Sin City — to hobnob with billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and other really rich people. Adelson, you may recall, has pledged to spend as much as $100 million of his own fortune trying to get pro-corporate, anti-progress candidates elected this fall. By the way, … $100 million sounds like a jackpot. But with his current estimated net worth of $24.9 billion, Adelson could drop $100 million on the presidential election every four years FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM.”
  • Public/private partnership pays for streetlights; not “spy cameras” in Harrisburg: “A Harrisburg gentleman’s club is paying to repair streetlights in a high-crime neighborhood in hopes of encouraging other businesses to keep the cash-strapped city’s residents safe. Savannah’s manager Jonas Hair said broken streetlights are a problem for any business, even ones such as his that keep their own security staff. So the club has offered to foot the $1,320 bill to fix a light outside the South Harrisburg establishment and five more in the crime-ridden Allison Hill neighborhood. The Patriot News of Harrisburg reported a local historic association is also raising money for streetlight repair after paying for new lighting on a Susquehanna River foot bridge. Harrisburg spokesman Robert Philbin said the Savannah’s donation is a welcome addition to the streetlight budget.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

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