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

Quote for today… “Taxpayers are entitled to see how their tax dollars are spent on a timely basis.” – Eric Epstein, citizen activist, in this Harrisburg Patriot-News article about the tardiness and lack of transparency in the audit of legislative accounts for the prior fiscal year. Why, oh, why, do citizens allow government “of the people, by the people and for the people” to keep secrets from them?

• How much does fracking contibute to California’s drought? – The New York Times

• Today’s the day! What you need to know about “net neutrality” – Marshble.com

• Celebrate NATIONAL EMS WEEK at the Library with Columbia QRS on June 21

• “The top 1 percent in America now own assets worth more than those held by the entire bottom 90 percent.” This New York Times column suggests the American dream may be on the decline as Europeans and Canadians fare better.

• This time, the “trusted staffer” taking money is a high school athletic director – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Another municipality wants to shield information from citizens – LancasterOnLine

• And citizens lose out to “GOBAG’s” in Marietta, too, evidently! – MyDonegalNews

• Spy Cameras don’t stop crime: but Police review social club’s security cameras following shooting in Lancaster – WGAL-TV8