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

Quote for today…  “Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive!.” – Sir Walter Scott

• “Quarryville police chief doubles as borough manager: He’s doing it for free, saving borough manager” – WGAL-TV [EDITORIAL NOTE: Wonder how that might play in Columbia?]

• Family Fraud: “Daughter of Orie Melvin charged with insurance fraud” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Weis pays former president almost $5,000,000.00 separation. – The Daily Item, Sunbury [EDITORIAL NOTE: Isn’t that what Weis pays everyone when they leave?] Evidently not, there’s a separate “compensation committee” deciding how to dole out some of that “thin grocery store margin” to the Company’s executive officers.

• In committee: Hearings “to increase transparency and accountability in Pennsylvania public schools.” – Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus

• “Two bills to reduce the size of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to 153 members from the current 203 members, and the Senate from 50 members to 38 members, passed out of the House State Government Committee today in preparation for debate and votes on the House floor, Speaker of the House Sam Smith (R-Jefferson/Armstrong/Indiana) said today.” – Pennsylvania House Republican Caucus

• Curious; there is no letters to the editors page in today’s daily newspaper?