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

Quote for today… “The school districts who have managed budgets and kept taxes low will be punished. The others who have mis-managed money and taxed and spent will be rewarded. Another failed liberal idea.” – Commenter at LNP – Always Lancaster article about schools who may get cash chunk under governor’s new budget.

• Too darn curious. At 9:06 am today, Columbia Borough’s Snow Emergency was posted at WGAL’s Website (Now [March 7, 10:27 am] not there any longer.) Sometime between 10:30 last night and this morning, the snow emergency appeared on the Borough’s Website, too. But Columbia’s citizens get to keep guessing! According to the Website, there’s still a Snow Emergency at 10:27 am on March 7.

• It’s still not posted at the Columbia Police Department facebook page at 3:33 pm Friday.

• Wonder why the borough wouldn’t share the important message with this news source and Cole Umber’s? Is it just petty, dumb or payback? Or don’t the folks at the borough want citizens to know facts. Do they like it better when citizens spread rumors, as this one posted at a facebook site that says “Columbia Borough also announced a snow emergency, effective 5 p.m. Wednesday.” 

• Sheriff Sale Listing

Love Affair: Enthusiasts set up for this weekends Studebaker Swap Meet in Horicultural Hall in the York Expo Center, Wednesday March 4, 2015. John A. Pavoncello – SOURCE: The York Dispatch

Studebaker Drivers Club

• In the editorial in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster: “Finally, although his predictions were a bit understated ahead of Thursday’s storm, thanks to Eric Horst and his team at the Millersville University Weather Information Center. Their predictions have been conservative, rather than sensationalistic, and mostly correct all winter.” What?

• Are school taxes high because of all the trappings? Has the American education system begun to focus on the wrong areas?

• “The United States routinely spends more tax dollars per high-school athlete than per high-school math student—unlike most countries worldwide.” – The Atlantic
  

• “Are varsity sporty destroying exercise and ruining America’s schools? – Pacific Standard

• Finnish schools: the best education – “Finnish schools lack some of the extracurriculars — such as sports teams or musical bands — considered so essential to U.S. high schools. But free lunches are available to all students. ‘School choice’ doesn’t exist; everyone goes to the neighborhood school. Students learn at least three languages: Finnish, Swedish, and English. Finally, Finland is a culture of readers, with a great library system and book mobiles reaching even remote locations.” – GreatSchools.org

• “Three reasons students do better overseas” – The New York Times

What’s the price of heating oil today?

• 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.]