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

Quote for today… “As a next step, a Mental Health Collaborative has been established to foster partnerships and action teams that will address the county’s mental health needs in a comprehensive way.” – Alice Yoder, director of Community Health & Wellness at Lancaster General Health, in this column in today’s Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era.

• If you’re one of those who missed the Monday evening council meeting, click here for Cole Umber’s excellent coverage of what happened.

• Appreciate Cole, newspapers and others who chronicle and record events. The written record of what happens is the way out of the confused, muddled and addled banter that is often seen.

• Death by cause statistics in the US – CDC

• Get the facts about drowning: According to the CDC, “Every day, about ten people die from unintentional drowning. Of these, two are children aged 14 or younger. Drowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.”

• 50 cats removed from York home –  The York Dispatch

• Can municipal sewer authorities run a business? Apparently not well, according to this Harrisburg Patriot-News article, mid-state sewer customers owe millions. Check the scores of comments following the article.

• And the newspaper plans to publish “a database that provides the names of customers in each municipality who are 90-days-or more late in paying bills and owe more than $500.”

• Are we headed towards a despotic state À la Egypt, etc.? When reporters get arrested covering cops shooting citizens, it looks like it. – Harrisburg Patriot-News