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

Quote for today… “This is another sordid example of how truly broken the military justice system is. This sentence is a mockery of military justice, a slap on the wrist nowhere close to being proportional to Sinclair’s offenses.” – From this article about the “inappropriate actions” of a high ranking military officer in a sexual assault case. Was justice served or is this the continuing theatre of finding general and flag officers not guilty when lower grade personnel are found guilty? – York Daily Record

• Columbia gets a new superintendent – LancasterOnLine

• Superintendent Carol L. Potter – LinkedIn bio

• It was a full parking lot for those coming to shop at the Market House yesterday; there was a police car in the lot (and four others wrapped around the police station). Thought there was to be no police car parking in this public parking lot.

• A LEGAL NOTICE in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era announces a joint meeting between the Columbia Borough School Board of School Directors and the Columbia Borough Council on March 31 at 7:00 pm at the School District Administration Center at 200 North Fifth Street.

• Impeding citizen speech at school board meeting “likely” is violation of state law – The York Dispatch

• Visited the “You know you’re from Columbia PA if” Facebook page yet?

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation keeps a “Do Not Issue” list of about 10,000 license plate combinations. Drivers will not be issued personalized license plates from this list, and rejected requests are added to the growing list, community relations coordinator Jan McKnight said.

• Rejected PA license plates photo album – York Daily Record

• Beginning bracket busters break billion bucks believers – York Daily Record

• Prison injustice with phone call prices – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era

• The harshness of heating this year – this Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era article compares the realities of several types of heating.

• “Happy life – happy wife”: not true says this FOX 43 report

• Intimidation practices to get tax advantages: Retailer threatens to “walk away” from building if it doesn’t get tax incentives from municipality – The Morning Call