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

• Today’s Weather! – Today in History! – The Official Time! – Population Clock (U.S. and World)
• Traffic Cam Rts. 30 & 441
• Lancaster County 9-1-1 map
• York County 9-1-1 map
• Lancaster County police incident map

Quote for today… “Time spent with cats is never wasted.” – Sigmund Freud. [This despite the (flawed research) report that claims that cats are the consummate killers. – Seattle Post-Intelligencer

• Gundel funeral director charged with abuse of corpses – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• The swarminess of politics: – “Immigration Reform Proposal Shows Similar Ideas Betweeen Bush and Obama: The immigration-reform plan embraced by Obama is remarkably similar to what the George W. Bush administration proposed. The difference, writes John Avlon, is that it has a good chance of passage now. – The Daily Beast

• More smarm in local justice world – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Plain speak: “Say what you mean, and mean what you say.” – That’s the gist of this article that Don Konkle, of the Pennsylvania Fire and Emergency Services Institute, recently sent. Rather than communicate with Customers, stakeholders and citizens in an obfuscated manner, tell the truth in words they’ll understand. For public safety  and for governments, “plain speak” works.   Update the Website!

• “Discover the dinosaurs at York Expo  Center” – York Daily Record

• POLICE LOG: “LANCASTER: Fletcher Morton, 44, of the 800 block of Blunston Street, Columbia, was charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after he allegedly damaged a door during a domestic dispute Tuesday in the 600 block of North Plum Street.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• The Slumbering Lodge Q-ville woodchuck checked in with a grumpy “six more weeks of winter report.” We’ll take the Punxsy one’s report. – LancasterOnLine

• Yippee … “Punxsutawney Phil, the rodent weather sage, did not see his shadow this morning, thus predicting an early spring.” – The Royal Oak Patch and “Groundhog Day 2013: The people of Punxsutawney” – Harrisburg Patriot-News