today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “ Just have to ask what happened to 4 Fridays? Man what a snoozer. Where did the energy and people go? Going to give Mount Joy a try. Hear it’s pretty good.” – Commenter at Cole Umber’s Website.
Another Quote for today… “ … tragedy, confusion, misplaced idealism, deluded thinking and, perhaps, a moment of insanity … ” – The best narrative of dumass political decisions to enter into undefined, muddled foreign entanglements in this 2012 Rolling Stone article about “America’s Last Prisoner of War.”
- Manor Township: Always open – LancasterOnLine
- Wagner’s “power and control” may not be wrong. And is broader and more pervasive than the “state’s largest teachers’ union.” – The York Dispatch
- Education reform: When one ensconced system takes on another one – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- G-7’s supposed to be the table to discuss finance and economics … but this year’s get-together is political. – The Guardian, London
- When dealing with politicians, idiocy abounds: “With such misplaced priorities among our ‘leaders,’ God help us.“ – York Daily Record
- Paytime data breach widens – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- Hey, the Romans had to pay for their sacrificial victims, too; so it is with Penn State’s football program – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- Nah, that’s not here: “The new website will allow police to post up-to-the-minute crime information, which is automatically pushed to Facebook and Twitter, giving residents the opportunity to provide police with tips and information of their own.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- Gotta’ love this opinion piece on the state’s budget machinations: “And everybody — from the lobbyists who ringed the upper balcony of the Capitol rotunda outside the House and Senate chamber, to the activists and supplicants who gathered on the Rotunda’s main floor below — wants something.” – Harrisburg Patriot-News
- On prisoner swaps: What about my husband, American woman asks. – The New York Times
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