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

Quote for the day: “That’s right: the health-care-industrial complex spends more than three times what the military-industrial complex spends in Washington.” – Extracted from the Time magazine report: “Bitter pill: Why medical bills are killing us.”

• ’Twas a media circus at the zoning hearing tonight as all the local TV stations were on hand … at least for the first part of the meeting. Following the Club Good Times decision, they pretty much cleared the Council Chambers.

• NO BARE BOOBS: “Columbia rules dancers at club cannot be completely nude” – LancasterOnLine

• Want to run for borough council? The last day to circulate and file nomination petitions is March 21. – Lancaster County Board of Elections Website

• Ah, the pursuit of “keeping ahead of the Joneses”: Owner of former county jewelry store duped investors – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Stopping at the grocery store to pick up milk, bread and beer: Weis Markets in Lititz will likely become the first grocery store in Lancaster County to sell beer after borough council Tuesday night approved the transfer of a liquor license. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• Millersville’s council acts: Loud renters evicted – MyPennManorNews

• “The following area students were named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Elizabethtown College: Columbia — Erika Moritz, a sophomore, mathematics-education; Marietta — Kimberly Harnish, a first-year student, undecided and Mountville — Ashley Cox, a first-year student, health and occupation; Alexander Iacono, a sophomore, biology.” – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

• POLICE LOG: EAST DONEGAL TWP.: Jennifer I. Leed, 34, of 409 Union St., Columbia, was charged Thursday at East High and River Street. – EAST LAMPETER TWP.: Tasha Marie Torres, 28, Wrightsville, and Stephany Gil-Perez, 19, Lancaster, stole clothing, knives, and prepaid cellphones valued at $140.61 at Walmart on Saturday, police said. Gil-Perez was charged and released to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office on an active bench warrant. Theft charges are pending against Torres. – LANCASTER: Victoria L. Martinez, 18, of the 300 block of Millstone Drive, Mountville, and Alexis C. Zipp, 18, of the 100 block of Broadstone Street, were charged after allegedly taking $40 worth of clothing Friday from Park City Center.