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

Quote for today… “Uuuuuhhhhhhhh!!!!  This is starting to get ridiculous! What the hell ever happened to “if you want a business, you have to pay for it, or guess what?, you don’t get your own business!”?! If the taxpayers are going to pay for all of these businesses, then we should be expecting our share of the profits, right?!” – Super Exchanger, commenter to the discussion about CRIZ and other “pig in a poke-like” handouts at inYork/the exchange.

• American Hustle: Jennifer Lawrence makes ‘American Hustle’ move – Arizona Star, Phoenix, AZ

• Hope in one hand; poop in the other: York City officials hope for better luck with CRIZ program in 2016 – The York Dispatch

• Hope/poop in Lancaster, too – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• CRIZ: City Revitalization and Improvement Zone – “A CRIZ is an area of up to 130 acres, comprised of parcels designated by a contracting authority, which will provide economic development and job creation within a political subdivision. State and local taxes collected within the CRIZ will be used to repay debt service to stimulate economic development projects within the CRIZ.” – PA DCED

• “Wish In One Hand, Crap In The Other – Biblical? – Moving Through Life blog

• The Urban Dictionary meaning of the phrase

• Today’s the last day to date your checks 2013

• So go already. C’mon, Bill … quit jerking us around! Houston wants O’Brien – a Houston Chronicle blog
  

• Boulder blocks Harrisburg – Lancaster train tracks – Harrisburg Patriot-News