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

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Quote for the day: “Republicans swear they are crazy enough to push the country into default, and they promise that the White House isn’t strong enough to stand by and let it happen.” – A sentence from “The lessons of the fiscal cliff” at The Washington Post‘s Wonkblog.

• Where’s Fourth Friday? Did you miss Fourth Friday in Columbia in December? If you wanted to find out by going to the Borough’s Webpage, you’d find: “Fourth Fridays in Columbia – Please see the attached flyer or the Fourth Fridays website for the next Fourth Friday in Columbia.” If you clicked on the Website link mentioned, you’d find … nothing. If you went to the Fourth Friday Website, www.fourthfridays.org, you found nothing. If you tried to find the Fourth
  Friday facebook page, you’d find … nothing! If you remembered that in early 2012, Artistic River Town Alliance (A.R.T.A) was established to be the umbrella entity for Fourth Fridays in Columbia, Marietta and Wrightsville, and went to that Website, you’d find a Website with clickable links that went … nowhere. Wonder where Fourth Friday is?

• Serious Problem: “The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission says there’s a serious problem in the Susquehanna River that’s causing disease in smallmouth bass.” York Daily Record

• Back to square one if O’brien goes pro – Harrisburg Patriot-News Opinion