Community Matters

Today’s online version of Main Line Media News includes an ‘As I See It’ op-ed article written by former PA State Rep Paul Drucker (D). Drucker suggests that currently serving PA State Rep Warren Kampf (R) of the 157 Legislative District is following the ‘Tea Party’ agenda. The editorial specifically points to the state budget cuts [...]

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“Plans Afoot For Troubled Paoli Rail Yard, Can It Become A Transportation Center With Buses And Better Parking?” This Philadelphia Inquirer headline above was not written this week, this month, this year – no, the article is seventeen years old, dating from September 14, 1994! This years-old Inquirer article focused on the possibility of turning the “problematic Paoli [...]

Filed under: Paoli Transportation Center, Paul Drucker, Tredyffrin Township, Warren Kampf | 6 Comments »

Unfortunately, in between primary and general election campaign season, the [Paoli] train station is once again relegated to the backstage, waiting for its starring role on the next glossy campaign flyer. Does the transportation project only exist as a political campaign talking point?  Following-up on my last Community Matters post, I was looking forward to [...]

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I continue to wonder about the PA Department of Transportation’s interest in the Downingtown train station; the cost of purchasing land and building a new train station when the existing station is only 20 years old.  I am certain that Downingtown probably needs additional parking but with one-third the daily ridership of Paoli, I am [...]

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I received an official email from Rep Warren Kampf supporting the newly approved state budget and claiming that it a “victory for all taxpayers”. Included in the email was a YouTube video of Kampf’s remarks presented last night in Harrisburg.  The 4 min. video contains something for everyone . . . I encourage you to watch it and look forward [...]

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We learned this week from the Tredyffrin Township Democratic Committee (TTDEMS) there would be some changes on the November ballot.  At-large Democratic supervisor candidate Ernie Falcone’s name appeared on the May primary ballot.  However, according to a press release from Dariel Jamieson, chair of the TTDEMS, Falcone has withdrawn from the race, stating ‘personal reasons’.  Replacing Falcone as a [...]

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The vision of some to toll 422 moved one step closer to a reality yesterday . . . and by all accounts, did so with flying colors.  Barry Seymour of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) along with Joe Hoeffel, Montgomery County Commissioner presented the 422-tolling proposal to the Governors Transportation Funding Advisory Commission.  To [...]

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The tolling of Rt. 422 was front-page headlines in Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer. Rising to the top of the local news charts, the tolling of 422 is not ‘new’ news for most of us. Unless you have had your head buried in the sand, you could not have missed this much discussed campaign topic during the [...]

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 What’s the saying, ‘What Goes Around, Comes Around” . . . ?  For most of the year 2010, voters of Tredyffrin Township had a front row seat as the ‘tolling of Rt. 422’ issue became a political football in the PA State House 157 race between incumbent State Rep Paul Drucker (D) and challenger Warren [...]

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Tom Houghton, former State Representative for Chester County’s 13th House District and a recently declared Democratic Pennsylvania State Senate candidate, released the following editorial, ‘Right to Know’ Stance on Budget’.  In the 2012 senatorial race, Houghton will be opposing Senate majority leader, Senator Dominic Pileggi (R), who represents the 9th Senatorial District in Chester and Delaware [...]

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