today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!
Quote for today… “I’m born and raised in Columbia. We’ve never had those kind of issues and we don’t want them and truthfully, we don’t want the kind of people that cause those problems.” – Comment from Columbia’s mayor in this FOX 43 TV report on the flag incident.
- The LNP – Always Lancaster article on the flag incident generated over 50 comments as well.
- From a local facebook site, this: “rally of the people who like to fly the Confederate Flag on their trucks up at the CHS this weekend, someone from facebook informed the school.”
- “CRASH COUNTERS RACIAL ESSENTIALISM AND STEREOTYPING AND LOOKS TO THE FUTURE” | “Look around! You couldn’t find a whiter, safer or better lit part of this city. But this white woman sees two black guys, who look like UCLA students, strolling down the sidewalk and her reaction is blind fear.” – one of the lines from the 2004 Academy Award winning movie “Crash” – this movie challenged Americans then to look at “how people often exhibit racist behavior, even when defending themselves from racist behavior.”
- Another local TV station’s coverage of the flag incident: nada – “coverage you can count on”?
- The Council of Conservative Citizens checks in.
- Stop Hate Crimes post.
- The PennLive article generated over 30 of reader comments, too. One of them confuses Columbia, PA with Columbia, SC – but folks reading the state capital’s newspaper and website get another “negative” view about Columbia, PA.
- And over 90 comments on the facebook page: Confederate Flag
- And a slew of other websites, including HipHopWired, take the flag story across the world.
See the billboard east of town on Route 462? See the Columbia Borough Fire Department Website?
- “On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies … “
- Marietta’s “Free Sunday Afternoon Town Talks“ – Marietta-Pa.com
- Legal Notice | Borough Council of the Borough of Columbia will hold a public hearing at 6:00 p.m. – Lancaster Online
- At the Magistrate’s Website: MDJReport – harassment charge | MDJCourtSummaryReport
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