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

Quote for today… “I really think the whole thing is going to collapse.” –  U.S. Representative Joe Pitts, in this Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era article, “Obama health care will collapse.”

• We wonder, Joe, whether you and others who sit where you do, have ever read the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?

• The Boston Police Department kept people informed: Boston PD’s facebook and a continuous string on Twitter

Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left), 26, dubbed Suspect No. 1 in the Boston Marathon bombings by law enforcement, and his brother, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, Suspect No. 2. – (SOURCE: boston.com)

• Boston’s nightmare ends – Boston.com

• Watertown’s police department also kept people informed with its facebook page. Watertown “has an emergency notification system which allows people to be alerted about various emergencies by cell phone, home phone, email, text message and more.” – The Watertown Patch

• TMI attack exercise involved intruders trying to “take over the plant.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Blue-White Weekend: Activities abound at Penn State – Centre Daily Times

A statue of Jim Thorpe in the town of Jim Thorpe, Pa. Thorpe’s remains rest in a Private mausoleum in the town where a monument has been erected in his honor with the sentence, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world,” etched in the stone. The son of Jim Thorpe wants his remains to be moved back to his hometown in Oklahoma. (Sean Simmers, PennLive.com, file)

• Jim Thorpe will rest in Oklahoma – Harrisburg Patriot-News [Note: Read more about Jim Thorpe in this earlier article at  Columbia news, views & reviews.]