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

Question for today… “People ‘are sick of the special interest influence on government and they feel alienated from elected officials.’” – PA representative Rep. Greg Vitali, in this Harrisburg Patriot-News article about reducing the size of Pennsylvania’s legislature.

• Boehner boner – The Conversation

• First you say you don’t and then you do. Tough keeping up with the two faces of Joe – Intelligencer Journal/ Lancaster New Era

• “The public would be better served if Lancaster Newspapers ignored the congressman until he gets the facts correct.” – A sentence in a letter to the editor in that newspaper about Joe Pitts.

• Property tax bill defeated: “The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Tuesday defeated an amendment that called for the phased elimination of school property taxes with higher state income and sales taxes.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Mechanicsburg council supports fire company consolidation – Harrisburg Patriot-News