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

Quote for today … “Would women be better than men at running the world?” – This intriguing question opens this Bloomberg View column about Germany’s Angela Merkel. 

• When the caller ID shows a local number the average citizen is more prone to answering the call. But watch out, recently the SPAMMERS AND SCAMMERS have figured out how to have their calls from who knows where look like they’re local numbers. Calls to us from these numbers 717.393.7281 and 717.393.7284 are just that: calls from SPAMMERS AND SCAMMERS.

• And they call it SPOOFING … it’s illegal, but the teeth in the law are, well, false. – fcc.gov

• “The founders were explicit: This country would never formally align God with one political party, or allow someone to use religion to ignore civil laws. At least that was the intent. In this summer of the violent God, five justices on the Supreme Court seem to feel otherwise.” – last paragraph of this New York Times column: Faith-Based Fanatics.

• Restaurant inspections in Lancaster County – Lancaster’s Central Market stand holders mostly have no violations.  The Sunday News

• Restaurant inspections in York County – The York Dispatch

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.

• “Eliminating government inspectors and replacing them with chicken company employees may save a few dollars, but at too high a price. President Obama is considering final approval of the ‘Filthy Chicken Rule.’” – Food & Water Watch

• “Would you like salmonella with your chicken?” – American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Website

• Are Oklahoma’s earthquakes the result of fracking? – KGW.com

• Penn State – Harvard – Michigan: Top three in “forcible sex offences” – The Washington Post

• DEEDs recorded: “Equity Trust Co. and Kathleen Foronjy Ira conveyed 255 N. Third St. to Lancaster Housing Opportunity Partnership for $32,000.” and “Donald C. Shuman and Jacqueline L. Shuman conveyed property on a public road to M. Suzanne Doolittle for $165,000.”

• Can you believe these folks? “General Motors resists expanding victims’ fund” – The New York Times

• Tough job: Officer kills  and officer killed – both from The New York Times

• Uber – “A ride-sharing app that makes it quicker, easier and cheaper to get a lift may be coming to the Susquehanna Valley, but for now the system is banned due to Pennsylvania standards.” – WGAL-TV8

• Uber & Lyft: because Lancaster County is not the same county you knew then – big market transportation problems are here. But, in Pittsburgh, the “Public Utility Commission’s Bureau of Investigation and Enforcement continues to crack down on Lyft and Uber … ” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Despite the naysayer commenters, Lancaster makes number three on the list of “most exciting places in Pennsylvania” – movoto.com