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

Quote for today… “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner

• LIGHT SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE BETWEEN 1 AND 2 INCHES BY THIS EVENING. THERE IS ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF WHITE-OUTS IN SNOW SQUALLS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING.

• Propane and natural gas prices soaring – The New York Times

• Less vitriolic comments on Facebook? Sure: “Instead of the standard ‘Trial by Jury,’ how about a trial by a baseball bat?” and “Looks like his mom may have been his grandma and his sister and aunt as well.”

• “Guilty plea in simple misunderstanding.” – The York Dispatch

• Little Caesars will move into old Pizza Hut site – LancasterOnLine

• Columbia news, views & reviews posted the property transfer here a few weeks back. The Little Caesars Website shows the existing store inside the Kmart, at 3975 Columbia Avenue.

• “a quiet neighborhood street in West Hempfield Township has been rocked by a series of crimes.” – WGAL-TV8

• Tide trounces ELCO, 79-32. – HighSchoolSports/PennLive

• Cutting more than prices: “Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will cut about 11,200 jobs at Sam’s Club warehouses” – Huffington Post

• Notice all the recent news about compression in the banking industry: jobs being whacked and branches being closed? Fulton Bank – CitiCorp – WellsFargo

• Wait a second? Didn’t the banking industry get mega-bucks from the government in the bail-out a few years back? Yep, and now it’s the same old song: jettison the folks who row the boat and overcompensate the “schmuck-ups” at the top.