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

Quote for today… “Rumsfield is just the latest in a long line of dunderheaded representatives of western powers to heap misery on the people there.” – Another commenter’s observation about the kinds of “dunderheaded representatives” who are in government in the US, from this New York Times opinion column: “The certainty of Donald Rumsfeld, Part 2.”

• Pet shelter in Columbia? – MyColumbiaNews

• End these welfare programs – Nicholas Kristoff opinion column

• The Bridge “firsts” – See the Scribbler column in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era to read about Columbia’s Jim Haug’s list of first-time events on the bridge.

• Police: Bethlehem man, 90, fires dozens of gunshots in standoff before killing himself. – The Morning Call

• Columbia’s Borough Website? Where is it? From google this morning at 6:26 am.
  

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  Along with a cooperative maintenance agreement between Columbia Borough, Wrightsville Borough, West Hempfield Township and Pa DOT, the project is …

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