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

Quote for today… “February is a suitable month for dying.  Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.” – Anna Quindlan. [And we think January was bad!]

• Oh no … say it ain’t so. Who would steal $300,000 from their own church? – LehighValleyLive.com

• When you want it, but can’t afford it: “Public reacts to West York budget cuts, furloughs” – The York Dispatch

• “What is the real State of the Union? These 13 graphs show it.” – York Daily Record

• Columbia No. 1 Fire Department practices cold water rescue on WGAL-TV

In case you missed these January 20 posts:

• Administrative Law Judge recommends against Columbia Water Company rate hike: “PUC Conducts Binding Poll on Columbia Water Co. Rate Increase Request” – Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission press release

• The trail

• the recommended decision

and the Final Order – R-2013-2360798 – PM 1-9-14 – Columbia Water – Final Rate Case Order is worth reading so you can get a greater appreciation about why this “tiny company” asked for the rate increase.

• Any of this info at the Columbia Water Company Website? What do you think?