Memorial Day: more than the start of summer
Also: teacher talks, pay day loans and kudos for the AfterProm
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
A mishmash of items for your consideration on this steamy Memorial Day weekend:
Starting, of course, with Memorial Day.
I know it’s trite to remind everyone that this holiday weekend is more than just the unofficial start of summer, but…
It is.
Sure, I’ll be spending time (a lot of time,...
Privatizing Pocopson Home might be costly
Fiscal and political impact of move might be seriously underestimated
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Privatization is one of those things that sounds in good in theory, but tends to be more complicated — and expensive — than folks expect.
With the buzz about Chester County looking to possibly privatize the Pocopson Home, the county-owned long-term senior care facility, it’s one of...
Will Tea Party accidently reelect Obama?
Could the ongoing purge of old-line Republicans weaken party, dampen Nov. turnout?
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
What, if any conclusions can we draw from this week’s primary election races?
Obviously, rule one of politics: money matters. In almost every race, the better funded campaign won — and in the case of the race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, despite the active...
Op/Ed: Howard asks voters for support
By Roger Howard, Candidate, State Senate, 9th District
To the voters of the 9th district:
Roger Howard
On April 24th the Republican voters of the 9th district have a choice in the Republican Primary for State Senate for the first time in at least a decade. Are the people satisfied with how Harrisburg works to put special interest and big money donors first, before the taxpayers? My supporters and...
The disease of me
Is putting self over the larger community hurting all of us in the long run?
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
The “disease of me.”
When I was a young NBA-beat writer back in the mid-1980s, I remember interviewing Los Angeles Lakers’ head coach Pat Riley and he preached about the need for any good team — and any good community — to see past selfish individual needs to accomplish...
Time for the end of prevailing wage
Law may have made sense a couple of generations ago, but its time has passed
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
You’ve probably seen a lot of headlines about prevailing wage of late — local municipalities backing a bill currently stuck in the state house.
The bill would increase the threshold for public bodies — schools, townships, boroughs and counties — required to pay prevailing...
School board seeking a middle ground
Moderation, common sense seems to be ruling the day; spring cleaning needed in Harrisburg
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Monday night’s Board of Education budget hearing was both encouraging and discouraging.
I was encouraged by the comments, in general, from members of the Board of Education who seem to be more willing to find a sensible middle ground in terms of balancing tax increases...
Is schools fatigue setting in?
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
We’ll skip the politics this week — nothing I could write can match some of the things one might have seen on cable news in the last few days, although at least one story left my 10-year-old daughter asking me to define some of the terms being used by Wolf Blitzer, terms that seemed a lot more Jersey Shore than The Situation Room, involving women.
But...
Op-Ed: block grants would allow commissioners to effectively use funds
By Terence Farrell and Ryan Costello, Chester County Commissioners
Chester County Commissioners Terence Farrell and Ryan Costello
During Governor Tom Corbett’s recent budget address, he suggested a change in the way funds for human services are distributed and allowed to be utilized by county commissioners. As Chester County Commissioners, we endorse this concept and urge the Pennsylvania legislature...
Big questions confront area in elections, schools
In election 2012, what will voters care more about: ideology or competency?
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
So many things to write about this week in Unionville from what should be an interesting primary race in a local state Senate race as well as what is shaping up to be another “interesting” conversation about the relationship between taxes and education.
Before we wade into the...
