Today’s news and information gleanings from here and there.

Today’s quote … ““This is so inspiring and so wonderful but it’s because of something so horrible. So my heart’s broken and full simultaneously.” – Dyane Carrere, from this Lancaster Online article: “Lancaster County residents join Women’s March on Washington in aftermath of President Trump’s inauguration.”

Today’s second quote … ““All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” – Edmund Burke [NOTE: A good man stood to speak during the citizens’ comments portion at the beginning of the Columbia Borough School District board of directors meeting; he challenged the “lack of communication” and muzzled hiring practices within the district. His comments and a “non-public” (and undated) job posting for a Director of Extra-Curricular Activities” is posted below in today’s news.

• Burke’s quote was from another era; actually a good woman or millions of good women won’t stand by doing nothing.

• Thin-skinned & petty whining | “Trump Administration Goes To War With The Media Over Inauguration Crowd Size” | H-m-m-m, maybe it all about size after all!

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• OUT OF TOUCH? YEP. | “How mass media missed the march that social media turned into a phenomenon.”  – The Washington Post

• OBSERVATION TO SCHOOL BOARD APPLICANTS | The police officer operating in a school environment is a “School Resource Officer.”

• Steelers vs. Patriots – It just doesn’t get much better than this. | The Boston view | The Pittsburgh View. NEWSPAPERS DO DO IT BETTER!!!!

• A look from the other side of the world | “Let’s be honest: Trump is right” – Pravda

• “Bizarre American Food That Every Russian Should NEVER Try” – Russia Insider

• Good reporting at Izvestia | “He will make America great again”

• It’s now called Austin Ray’s Bar & Grill – the place directly across Route 462 from Leisure Lanes – but it’s list of violations is astounding. This and other Lancaster County dining places’ inspections (except those in Columbia) are listed here. – Lancaster Online
  

• So many of the dining places listed are repeat offenders | Turkey Hill C-stores; McDonald’s; Friendly’s; Chili’s, ugh! Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre makes it this time, too. Doesn’t anyone care?

• “Observed a case of nacho cheese in the storage room on a shelf that displays evident of rodent gnawing.” From an inspection at an elementary school | York County food serving establishments inspections. – York Daily Record / York Sunday News

• 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.

• NOTE: NOTHING’S POSTED AT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WEBSITE. And that was one of the issues that citizen Jerry Nissley brought to the School Board directors (though he directed much of his comments and questions to the director of operations when he spoke on Thursday evening. He wondered why the director of operations is suppressing the information and questioned the lack of communication, hiring and pay inequity, pay increase “favoritism” and lack of transparency in informing the public and staff of position announcements.

Here are Jerry Nissley’s prepared comments.

Above is the purported  “internal announcement” – note it is undated. Nissley alleged that the person who held the position resigned on Wednesday and that another person would be assuming the “acting director of extra-curricular activities until the end of the school year.”

PennLive has a great collection of photos from the marches here.