Recognition deserved | “12-year-old Pa. reporter gives commencement speech at university” – WITF [Here’s a Columbia news, views & reviews post from earlier this year about her.]

Harrisburg’s highest | The school district’s got the highest teacher turnover rate in the state; Columbia’s is much lower. – PennLive

From the Municipal Briefs extracted from the article in today’s LNP – Always Lancaster

We often wonder why anyone wants to “utilize” anything – especially when so many of us are content to use and to say the word: “use.” Is it just a need to “utilize a bigger word?”

• “Comfortability is verbal junk” according to this author.

another no-no! It’s either unique or it’s not — it’s never very unique.