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

Quote for today… “How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.” – Salman Rushdie

Due to inclement weather, all County Administration and Court Offices are on a two-hour delay Monday, 3/2/15. – County Website

So is the Columbia Borough School District and Hempfield School District

• The mayor’s alluded to it more than a few times and it was a brief topic of conversation at last week’s council-of-the-whole meeting when someone asked about the “chunks of concrete” falling from The Bridge into the River Park. The mayor said that PENNDOT’s going to do major structural makeovers on The Bridge and the project would be the “most expensive” in the state’s history. Then this LEGAL NOTICE comes along for the other bridge (the one that seemingly is being repaired all the time); this announces “bids for maintenance and protection of traffic during the inspection of the Wrights Ferry Bridge in Columbia, PA.”

“ABC27 anchor Megan Healey told friends and fans on her Facebook page that she will no longer be working at the station”

• She’s going to become the Governor’s press secretary

• Letter to the editor: Not “for thanks or free meals.” – The York Dispatch

• “Walmart’s pay raise highlights how poor we’ve all become.” – The Conversation

• The May 19 primary election will be a big one with lots of county, state and local races for constables, magisterial district judge, councillors, school board directors and more. Read the list in this LEGAL NOTICE.

• They’re coming out to join him; more letters to the editor advocating that the US “destroy Islamic State” in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster.

• Meeting Minnie. and now he’s gone; thanks for the memories, Mister Minoso!

• But how? “Old as the middle ages, but as vicious as ever, terrorism is a tactic that leverages small, spectacular attacks to seize entire populations with fear.” Simple googling produces thousands of reads – some scholarly and learned; some not. This one has sound basics: “We’ve got to drain the swamp.”

• Or follow the model of those who ravaged Carthage: “Carthage was to be razed to the ground, no stone was to be left upon another, the soil was to be ploughed and strewn with salt.” Or the Mongols? Or have a look at this idea from a conference: “Why do terrorists stop” – Terrorism and Counterterrorism in Global Comparison.”

• Dresden: It’s OK to engage terrorism if you’re the victor? An old Czech proverb states, “The big thieves hang the little ones.”

• Lex Gabinia

• 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.]