COLUMBIA SPY

When you're out shoveling your sidewalk, do a favor for the firemen (and maybe yourself) and dig out the fire hydrant in your neighborhood.  As someone did here  But not here Or here  Here's a work in progress  As is this, because it sure isn't completed.  As I said before, some do and some don't.  The mailman had to push his cart up the highway - into oncoming traffic - because some sidewalks were not shoveled sufficiently (or at all). That's one big pile of dirty snow.

The former Long Funeral Home, pictured  HERE , has been named one of Lancaster County's most threatened historic spots by the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster, according to a LancasterOnline article  HERE .  The house was built in 1895 and was recently listed for a price of about $67,000.

http://m.lancasteronline.com/news/local/columbia-mother-gets-up-to-years-for-neglecting-abuse-that/article_702f2b30-95bc-11e3-9090-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/02/wgal_lancaster_sets_up_tempora.html

Tom Corbett Loves Puppies,  But 4 People Still Died Today Because He Won't Allow Medicaid Expansion That’s according to a new study by researchers at the Harvard Medical School and the City University of New York. The study says that Pennsylvania Governor  Tom Corbett’s refusal to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act will result in 1,491 deaths this year. Why is Corbett turning down federal funding for Medicaid expansion? Because he is playing politics over Obamacare in an election year. He wants to turn Medicaid over to his corporate insurance friends and impose illegal restrictions on who can be covered. Every day Corbett delays the expansion of Medicaid in Pennsylvania 4 more people will die. Expanded Medicaid coverage will not only prevent deaths, it will increase employment in Pennsylvania. A Families USA study showed that expanded coverage will result in over 40,000 new jobs in PA.

We could get a foot of snow on Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. Meanwhile, in Sweden . . .