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

Quote for today … “Your community hospitals need your help. Join our efforts to protect patient care.” – From the Coalition to Protect America’s Health Care Website as hospitals begin to band together to protect the golden goose.

THE GOVERNOR’S SPEECH – THE ENTIRE TEXT – WPMT-TV

• The page one article in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster says it all  as it begins “Within weeks, Lancaster County’s largest health system may have a final agreement to become part of a much bigger one based in Philadelphia.”

• No more shade tree commission in Middletown – PennLive

• Oil trains are a threat – The Morning Call

• Higher water bills have arrived – there’s a “send us an email” form at the water company’s Website. Wonder whether anyone really reads the emails?

• This is on the back of the Sewer Bill for February: Columbia’s “Operating expenses are projected the same for a balanced budget with 53% attributed to police expenditures, 12% to highway, 10% to insurances and the balance to administration and general government expenses.”