today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “Pray on Sunday and bonk their secretary on Monday.” – We have lost our collective Way, commenter, from the Harrisburg Patriot News article referenced below.
- Oh, yeah … the comments are less brutal since LancasterOnLine switched to Facebook logins: Here’s what one commenter had to say about the schmuck who shot the horse: “Brandy Tomasa Lynn He’s gonna enjoy that smirk when the next inmate sticks their ______ up his ______! ..food for thought. Don’t drop the soap, you stupid prick.”
- Hello, and welcome, vernal! – Time Magazine
- Up to date data at the borough website: 2014 spring clean up
- Merchandiser delivers borough newsletter – yet, this morning, it’s not yet posted at the borough’s Website. Wouldn’t you think … ?
- Be sure to read the admonition about dog and cat feces and urine in the newsletter – because the codes and police departments must not since there are piles of dog doo-doo on sidewalks all over town.
- Newsletter page one article about the Northwest River Trail Service Building has no mention about a River Park “Public meeting.” Wonder when and how citizens will learn about it?
- “Dated” data at the borough website: TOWN MEETING April 30, 2013
- Nothing on the borough’s website about Max’s, Columbia’s recent K-9 officer, death. We received this news last night via email. It’s evidently posted at several facebook sites, but not at either of these Columbia Police Department facebook pages (one) – (the other). Nor the police department’s Website. Heckuva’ way to pay respect to a fallen comrade!
- A reader passed along this facebook page that includes Columbia Police Officer Ed Mann’s eulogy to his fallen comrade, Max. It’s a doggone shame Columbians cannot read about this on their own municipal agency’s pages.
- Harrisburg Patriot-News article, “Do you have to believe in God to be a moral person?” draws lots of reader comments.
- Letter to the editors in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era praises Cycle Den’s Chad Noll’s struggle.
- If college athletics really were about college educations: Kansas will win NCAA men’s basketball tournament – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- “According to the Institute for Policy Studies, the $26.7 billion of bonuses Wall Street banks paid out last year would be enough to more than double the pay of every one of America’s 1,085,000 full-time minimum wage workers. – RobertReich.org
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