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

Quote for today… “When it comes to weather and seasons, normal is different all the time.” – Columbia news, views & reviews post on April 1, 2013.

• Columbia news, views & reviews applauds Our Lady of the Angels School and the other public and non-public schools that encouraged student participation in the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era‘s “Newspaper In Education Week” program. The NIE supplement is included with today’s newspaper. Congratulations, Hannah Reese, on the publication of your story, “Yummy Lunches.”

• More about NIE Week

• Food prices will jump just as electric, heating oil, gas prices have. –  York Daily Record

• “Right-wing-nut” Ryan releases “reforming welfare, overhauling social programs” report – The Washington Post

• Read his “report” here

• Ryan, and his ilk, generally are well-off according to this 2010 Washington Post “wealth-o-meter” report.

• add to the above the free meals and contributions from corporations to stay in office to underwrite their bidding. – Opensecrets.org

• “Sewer study leaves West York with a bill it might not be able to pay” – York Daily Record

• Columbia news, views & reviews post, March 01, 2011: “The good news is I saw this on Sunday when I was outside starting the yard work. Hey, it’s spring and a body’s mind turns to thoughts of … digging in the dirt! Unless Mother Nature has some of those evil March blizzards up her sleeve, t-shirt weather will be coming soon.”

• Letter writer to the editors of the Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era asks, “Did anyone feel that these constant snowstorms might be an act of God and that he might be trying to tell us something?” Really?

• New house bill would allow local police departments to use radar: “An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for municipal corporation portion of fines; establishing the Municipal Law Enforcement Accreditation Fund; and further providing for speed timing devices and for State and local powers.”