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

Quote for today… “If service members are killing themselves faster than the enemy can, then who is the real enemy?” – Mike Fayette, Afghanistan and Iraq veteran. Extracted from a letter to the editor in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era.

• Yep, it’s a world of crazies – “Northeastern Regional Police charged a Manchester man Sunday after he admitted to them that he fatally shot a neighbor’s dog as it was inside a fenced-in area near its home Saturday, according to police Chief Bryan Rizzo.” – York Daily Record

• Desperation – Attempted  robbery at Lancaster’s Central Market – LancasterOnLine

• Wonder what happened at last night’s council meeting? Since Columbia news, views & reviews was unable to attend, we do too.

• LEGAL NOTICE, published in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era, March 12, 2013 – “LEGAL NOTICE The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Columbia will meet on Wednesday, March 27, 2013, at 7:00 P.M., in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, to consider the following application(s) and/or appeal(s): Catholic War Veterans Home Association is requesting special exception(s) and/or variance(s) to operate a membership club and to offer sales of lottery products of the Pennsylvania Lottery to the general public at 250 North Seventh Street in an Institutional Residential (INSR) zoned district. If you are a person with a disability wishing to attend this meeting and require an accommodation to participate in the meeting, please contact the Columbia Borough Office at 684-2467 to discuss how the Borough may accommodate your needs. Jeffrey Helm, Zoning Officer.” [EDITOR’S NOTE: this hearing request was initially slated for January and has been continued two times.]

• The Harrisburg Patriot-News has done a masterful job of reporting on the ballooning incomes of state workers, especially those who get paid more than $100,000 a year. Click here to go to the index of these articles.

• The  database of state workers making more than $100,000 a year – Harrisburg Patriot-News