Day late, dollar short: such is my life. Haven't had time to post this until tonight...

I'm still new enough in the township and school district I live in to be almost completely unfamiliar with local issues - a shame, because that's about all there was to vote on here. This is exacerbated by the local paper, which covers State College Borough and its immediate surroundings like a blanket but, except on the sports pages, gives extremely short shrift to the remainder of the county. [There are no other local papers, no local radio news and the nearest television stations are in Altoona, about an hour away]

But, I did know of a local referendum issue that I had a strong opinion about - one which I apparently shared with better than 80% of the voting public.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being among the oldest constitutionally established governments on the continent, has its share of anachronisms. The Occupational Assessment Tax, where one is taxed on one's title, not one's income, has been perhaps the most onerous. It does not still exist throughout the state, but it still did here... until Tuesday. "OAT rolled at polls"

[No excuses offered for the weak attempt to pun 'rolled oats']

Even here in the land the Amish are leaving Lancaster for, we do sometimes manage to stumble our way toward modernity.

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