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

Quote for today … “The thing is. ..mistakes are often a part of growing up….often that’s where wisdom and maturity come from.” – from one of the more prudent comments following numerous posts, including this one at the Columbia Borough Police Department’s facebook page, about the breaking of a window at a structure at the River Park.

• If you’re poor, you pay more. – The New York Times

• It’s where your Comcast payments go: “Comcast’s six highest-paid executives – Cavanagh, Roberts, Burke, and Comcast Cable division CEO Neil Smit, senior executive vice president David L. Cohen, and former CFO Michael Angelakis – were compensated a total of $176.5 million in 2015.” – Philly.com

• Should this astound us? No, sexual predators abusing trust deserve no praise! No a cushy retirement or reassignment.  “The small town that boasted of the role it played in Dennis Hastert’s ascent from high school wrestling coach to speaker of the U.S. House spoke bitterly of him on Saturday, a day after prosecutors detailed allegations that Hastert sexually abused several members of the team.” – Dubuque, IA Telegraph-Herald Website

• Lancaster County inspections – Lancaster Online

• In York County, “mouse droppings found in cabinet under soda dispensing machine” during one York County inspection. – The York Dispatch

• Click here to go to the state’s Website of inspections … and the listing of the violations at each location. The statewide directory lists inspections for all municipalities in York County and Lancaster County.

• … except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide.