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

Quote for today… “Our Internet service as a country is slow and expensive by any standard. And we need to be on the lookout for any entity — private or governmental — that is standing in the way of improvement.” – Kim Kommando, in this column: “The real reason your cable bill is so high — and what you can do about it.”

• A couple pages of properties listed for the March 27 County Sheriff Sale Listing appear in the classified pages of today’s newspaper; over a half dozen are in Columbia. Here’s the listing from the Sheriff’s office Website.

• Cussin’ cop is out of a job – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Last Friday, this was in the today’s news here at Columbia news, views & reviews: Weather forecast calls for more snow; starting to feel like Bozo: “Tonight Snow showers. Low around 24. West wind around 6 mph becoming calm. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible. – Saturday: New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible.”
  

• It’s feeling like groundhog day, the movie. Here’s the top-of-page one headline in today’s daily newspaper: “Another nor’easter?” A local forecaster is saying, “we have a chance of having another nor’easter — the type of storm that dumped up to a foot and a half of snow here a week ago — hitting us toward the end of the month into early March.”

• The “Doppler-gangers” at WGAL have this forecast.

• The Weather Channel’s 10 day outlook.

• Accu-Weather’s

• Which local cable provider almost ranks near the bottom in customer service? – Kim Kommando’s Website