SOME LOCAL NEWS TO PONDER

York City Council's vote to provide domestic partner coverage in its employee health insurance plan is nothing short of brilliant! Any day now, fire and brimstone will start raining down from the Heavens. With York's fire department in the process of downsizing, it'll be unable to control the firestorm, and large swaths of city blocks will be reduced to rubble in a matter of hours. Residents will be forced to flee the City for suburbia, where the grass is greener and the schools are better and drug wars only happen when three seniors battle for position at the supermarket pharmacy counter. With nobody left to police, the City can significantly cut its forces and, with the influx of funds from rebuilding permits, the City will recover its financial health in a matter of months. Given all the new empty space, parking problems should disappear overnight, snow removal will no longer be a problem, and those pesky meter maids can finally be retired. It's a win-win situation for everybody. That's why it's hard to believe that City Council would consider such a humane act of kindness, but they did, and I'm glad. The world needs all the kindness it can get.