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

Quote for today… “I  don’t think any of them are clean,” – George Vecsey, New York Times columnist, writing about the scandals in college football programs in this Harrisburg Patriot-News article. Wonder if there are any ethics or if anyone’s really clean in big time college football? Or in politics, for that matter?

• “Cart before the horse” hearing in Columbia – “LEGAL NOTICE The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Columbia will meet on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, at 7:00 P.M., in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, to consider the following application(s) and/or appeal(s): Vincent Fiorella is requesting special exception(s) and/or variance(s) to construct an accessory building at 631 South Thirteenth Street … ” – LancasterOnLine

• Click here or on the graphic below to read Cole Umber’s coverage of September’s council meeting of the whole. Great to learn about the “additional costs” and the continuation of added costs; the added cost of the learning curve; etc. Thanks, Cole.

 

• For those who were not at last night’s council meeting, the transmission of “who said what” and “what happened” is left to those who came to the meeting to document the night’s activities. Others in the borough will get verbal reports from those who attended or written interpretations from others. The only way to get a full report is to attend meetings.

 

• It’s a start: Penn State dumps one bad actor – Harrisburg Patriot-News

• Complaints about the neighbors: It happens other places too – Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era