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How do we keep our dominoes from starting to fall and our house of cards from crashing? The debt battle in Washington is raging. The deadline by which Congress must decide to increase the nation’s debt limit or find ways other than borrowing to pay the interest on the huge national debt, is only days [...]

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The economy is taking its toll on businesses across America and unfortunately, locally we are not immune.  There is such joy when we see signs of growth and development in the area retail and restaurant market but a sense of sadness when we see the closed signs.  It is particularly tough if you know the [...]

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Following-up on Newsweek’s listing of America’s best high schools; I emailed an excerpt from my Community Matters post to TESD administration, school board members and to Karen Cruickshank, president of the board.  I asked for comment or explanation of why Conestoga High School was missing from the Newsweek best high schools in America list when neighboring [...]

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Newsweek has released a list of the top 500 public high schools in America.  Here are high schools in our local area that made the list and their ranking: Harriton High School:  #123 Radnor High School: #146 Lower Merion High School:  #224 Downingtown East High School; #279 Downingtown West High School: #339 Great Valley High [...]

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Radnor, Lower Merion & Great Valley high schools on Newsweeks’s top 500 list of public schools — but no Conestoga! http://wp.me/pRqOw-28b

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Radnor, Lower Merion & Great Valley high schools on Newsweeks’s top 500 list of public schools — but no Conestoga! http://wp.me/pRqOw-28b # Powered by Twitter Tools

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Last night was the first meeting of the township’s new Historical Commission.  The seven members of the HARB (Historical Architecture Review Board) were appointed to the Historical Commission.  The new commission was established with nine members. A Community Matters reader reminded me that I should advertise the two vacancies on the Historical Commission.  We need [...]

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I think that we’re making progress on the sidewalk saga of St. Davids Golf Club. Last night’s Board of Supervisors meeting marked the first of multi-public hearings planned to review the township’s proposed sidewalk amendment change to the land development ordinance.  If you recall, sidewalk discussion in the township began 19 months ago (December 2009) [...]

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Tolling of 422 continues to be a topic of discussion.  A few days ago, Barry Seymour,Executive Director of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) wrote an editorial with claims that tolling is the best option to improve 422 traffic problems. This article reconfirms Seymour’s presentation last month to Gov. Corbett’s Transportation Funding Advisory Commission. Here’s [...]

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It may have been almost 40 years, but what is the saying, “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Jane Fonda continues to feel the sting for her anti-Vietnam War behavior of the 1960s and 70s.  During a 1972 visit to Hanoi in North Vietnam, Fonda made radio broadcasts critical of US war policy.  While there, [...]

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