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Archive for December, 2007

A pretty good friend, and a pretty good dog

Posted in Pets, Social issues on December 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Her name’s Sabrena and she’s been wanting me to mention her in a column, so here it is.
Actually, Sabrena is a pretty good friend, and pretty good friends are sometimes difficult to come by. I met her and the guy who became her husband when I was doing a story about the first anniversary of [...]

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What would have happened if …

Posted in History, Politics, Social issues on December 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In a recent conversation about whether time and resources being spent to force a countywide revaluation might better be spent obtaining taxes in a way that is more fair and better reflective of the taxpayers’ ability to pay, one individual told me:
“You can’t argue for a fairer tax system that’s never going to come into [...]

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Link between taxes, services often unseen

Posted in History, Politics, Social issues on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was struck recently by a phrase in a letter to the editor.
“Cost to the Borough? Nothing,” the writer stated.
“Cost to the Gettysburg taxpayers?” the writer asked, and replied. “re-construction of …”
I was reminded of a story told back where I lived my childhood, and a portion of my adulthood. It is a tale the [...]

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Privacy Shmivacy!

Posted in Blogroll, History, Politics, Social issues, Technology on December 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

The operator of one of the Internet’s most popular social networking sites admitted this week it was tracking its users — even after they had logged off the site.
Facebook, a competitor to the only more slightly well-known MySpace, made the acknowledgement after it was caught by Internet security researcher CA Inc. doing what its executives [...]

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