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

Quote for today… “Physical force comes with the police job, and fallibility comes with the police officer.” – Extracted from this New York Times article about unequal treatment following arrest.

• Free parking for Christmas – but not in Columbia – WGAL-TV8

no mention of this at the November 24 meeting minutes

• Committee of the Whole/Council, Monday evening, 6:00 pm – Borough Website

• “Lancaster Unity will hold a peace walk at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 27; the walk will set off from Penn Square. The walk is in response to the recent spate of violence in Lancaster city. Organizers say it’s aimed at encouraging ‘love and support, as opposed to violence and fear.’ The LNP Editorial Board encourages everyone to take part.” – From the editorial pages at LNP – Always Lancaster.

Mandy Rice-Davies obituary

• Kim Komando’s column lists three sites that do not track you “like google does.”

• DuckDuckGo – “The search engine that doesn’t track you.”

• ixquick – “the world’s most private search engine”

• blekko

• 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.]

• Reading police officer suspended: amid claims he “used excessive force over the last few years.” [NOTE: Reading Police Chief, Bill Heim, used to be the police chief in Lancaster; he resigned to become Reading’s chief in 2006.]

The river, the bridge from a Cessna at dusk last night.