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

Quote for today… “I forgive you because I don’t want to remain angry.” – Philomena, masterfully played by Dame Judi Dench, in a riveting movie, Philomena. Here’s the story line: ” A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman’s search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.”

• Mapping poverty in Pennsylvania’s school districts – LancasterOnLine

• The doctor’s snow cast – WGAL.com

• The weather’s getting the best of people: woman threatens to burn down the store because car was towed – The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

• “historic high” prices for heating oil – The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

• 100% chance of snow

SOURCE: Mallard Fillmore comics

• Meet some killer folks on craigslist – The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA
  

• “Sunbury community disturbed by latest twist in bizarre case” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Local cut-up: “A Lancaster County man is facing attempted homicide charges after stabbing his girlfriend multiple times Sunday morning.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Go figger: “Snake-handling Kentucky pastor dies from snake bite” – The York Dispatch

• Today is President’s Day: “Why President’s Day is slightly strange” – The Washington Post

• Could John Kerry be as big a threat as climate change? – “John Kerry: Climate change as big a threat as terrorism, poverty, WMDs” – CNN

• Another “best obituary” candidate: “Dead”

• Now that was a hockey game: 304 penalty minutes – Portland Press Herald, Portland, Maine

• Villanova’s making up snow days on Sundays – Philadelphia Business Journal

• We wonder: There’s a legal notice in today’s newspaper of record soliciting bids for the “Manor Township Enola Low Grade Rail Trail Parking Lot.” Hello, it’s a “trail,” for pete’s sake! Why is it that we have to pave everything? “Don’t it always seem to go, That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone They paved paradise And put up a parking lot.”