today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “My “Broadcast TV Fee” went up from $1.50 to $3.25 in the month of January 2015. Essentially a 216% increase, true to Comcast fashion to r*pe the customer, line by line.” – Comment at GeekWire article about Comcast’s dastardly, slippery, spurious, questionable, bastard-like rate increase to it’s “Broadcast TV Fee.” [NOTE: Some Comcast rate plans did not have January 1 rate increases, but the silly tack-on’s had increases.]
- That’s all it said: “available on request.” – Lancaster Online legal ad – Saw that “available on request” notice, while looking for the legal notice about the impending “special meeting for Wednesday, Jan. 7 to again discuss the annual tax ordinance and consider overriding the mayor’s veto. The meeting is set for 7 p.m. at the borough building, 308 Locust St.” – The LNP – Always Lancaster article.
- And here’s that legal notice. Put the date on your calendar.
Update, today’s January 3, 2015 and the Website’s unchanged since at least December 30!
- Nothing about the January 7 meeting at the Website. Update the Website! Keep citizens and visitors informed.
now it’s a luxury rehab center – The Ephrata Review
- Newly elected Governor Tom “Wolf also wants to raise revenue through changes to the personal income tax which will also improve the fairness of the state’s tax system. Pennsylvania has a flat income tax rate of 3.07 percent and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that the constitution bars the adoption of a graduated income tax. Wolf’s plan would raise the income tax rate but exempt income below a certain level. Wolf has said he intends to use the extra revenue generated by his tax reform to increase the level of state aid to public schools and reduce Pennsylvanians’ property taxes.” – TaxJusticeblog
Gone: Donna Douglas, as Elly Mae Clampett, – The Los Angeles Times
and Little Jimmy Dickens – The Tennessean, Nashville TN
- There was a time when as many as two out of three households watching TV tuned to the Elly May and the Clampett family.
- Worth reposting: 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”
- 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.]
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