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Quote for the day:“The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?” – Dave Barry, humorist and writer.

• Rt. 30 crash fatality identified – LancasterOnLine

• Columbia’s girls volleyball team wins title – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Columbia crawls toward “no tobacco playgrounds” – MyColumbiaNews

• Navy blimp spotted several times in York County – York Daily Record

• Council “blindsides” town; discontinues police department: “Things are done secretively and I just can’t work with these people. I don’t think they have the town’s best interest in mind.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
  

• Why Joe Friday could not run for office or  when facts do not matter – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• “The proposed Perdue soybean-crushing plant in Conoy Township would emit such a large quantity of the air pollutant hexane that the company would have to pay for the reduction of smog-producing gases elsewhere.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era