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

Quote for today… “If you want to take a picture of me one more time, I’m going to lock your ass up” – Ferguson, Missouri police officer, Darren Wilson, on a video recording before he violates a citizen’s First Amendment rights. Wilson is the same law enforcement officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in August of this year in Ferguson. – Newsweek

• SAVE THE DATE: September 25, 2015. His Holiness: “I wish to confirm, according to the wishes of the Lord, that in September of 2015 I will go to Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families.” – The Washington Post

 

• “When in outdoor public spaces where you are legally present, you have the right to capture any image that is in plain view (You have the right to videotape and audiotape police officers performing official duties in public. It is not a violation of the Pennsylvania Wiretap Law to do so. That means you can record an officer during a traffic stop, during an interrogation, or while he or she is making an arrest.).” – American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

The jump from unemployed to high-level “guv’mint” job … it could happen!

• Know any state workers? Want to see that person’s salary? [NOTE: This report provides information on the annual salaries or hourly/daily wages earned by employees.  Salary and wage amounts do not include other forms of compensation, such as overtime. Or health insurance benefits, we’d guess, too.]

• In societies acknowledging “rule of law”, “the laws are clear, publicized, stable, and just; are applied evenly … ” even for elected public servants. If only? Read this Harrisburg Patriot-News article about a Harrisburg elected public servant who thinks the laws don’t apply to him.

• Libraries are in trouble: Take a stand for libraries – Editorial, LNP-Always Lancaster

• “In a rush to maintain profits, newspapers are abandoning the art of customer service” – NiemanLab

• The “invisibility” of race – everydaysociologyblog.com