Community Matters

Many of the comments lately on Community Matters have centered around the upcoming teacher contract negotiations and a forecasted school district deficit of $3.25 million.  The PSERS crisis has reached epic proportions and many are suggesting that the problem needs to get ‘fixed’ in Harrisburg.  During the last election, several school board candidates pointed their [...]

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Harrisburg’s $300 million incinerator debt has the capital in the middle of a state takeover and the twists and turns of the story read like a Nancy Drew mystery novel. In 2003, city officials in Harrisburg borrowed $125 million to rebuild their enormous trash incinerator, which the federal government had shut down due to toxic [...]

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Save the Trees!  The Chester County Open Land Conservancy volunteers continue to wage their battle against the invasive vines that are strangling the trees in the Nature Preserves . . . and could use some help on Saturday.   Open Land Conservancy will once again be holding its series of winter “Vine Days” to continue [...]

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Be careful driving this weekend on Route 202 – the 202 construction project through Tredyffrin is shifting the two northbound lanes to the southbound side. I attended a Route 202 Project Update meeting given by TMACC (Transportation Management Association of Chester County) held at Penn State/Great Valley.  Basically, an update for local corporate and hotel [...]

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Today’s post includes notes from the Board of Supervisors and T/E School Board meetings held last night. Although a prior commitment prevented me from attending last night’s BOS and school board meeting, Ray and Carol Clarke attended the meetings and graciously forwarded their notes.  I attended a TMACC (Transportation Management Association of Chester County) meeting [...]

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Facing $15 billion in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy, the US Postal Service has about maxed out their credit card.  In the age of email, Facebook and Twitter, not to mention FedEx and United Parcel Post, the US Post Office announced last week that it lost $5.1 billion in the last year. The [...]

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There is much awaiting lawmakers when they return to Harrisburg tomorrow. Several major areas require legislator’s attention before they depart for the winter holidays in three weeks – privatizing the state liquor system, school voucher program, proposed redistricting and natural gas drilling policy of Marcellus shale. Since taking office last January, Gov. Corbett has been [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, the T/E School Board voted against an EIT voter referendum question for the April primary.  (School Board members Kevin Mahoney and Anne Crowley favored taking the EIT question to the voters). I received an interesting comment from Jim Newhard in response to T/E School District’s response the November 15 post. [...]

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Reading about the expansion planned for King of Prussia Mall, www.kingofprussia.com  you would not know there is anything wrong with the local economy. As the King of Prussia Plaza and the Court developed over the years, it seemed like a waste of valuable property to have the two sections of the mall connected by an [...]

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