Sorting opinion from fact on Unionville outsourcing

Price’s outburst underscores why outsourcing process must be fact-based, not opinion driven By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com Outsourcing school services, such as busing, will be a difficult decision for Unionville. EAST MARLBOROUGH — It was hard not to feel bad while watching it. Dr. Paul Price’s diatribe Monday suggesting that the request for proposal to evaluate outsourcing...

Unionville: so many reasons to give thanks

Thanksgiving thoughts focus on the people that make this community special By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com It’s hard not to live and work in Unionville and be thankful for so many things. It’s not that we are better, but maybe that we have it better and seem to realize it and do the little things that make this a special community. With that thought, I decided to list in no special...

Finding the middle ground: making gray the new black

Black and white mentality needs to give way to compromise, consensus By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com I was driving down Route 52 the other day and a passel of abandoned campaign signs prompted me to start thinking about what, if any, conclusions, one should draw from the recent election results and how it applies to life around here. Yes, it’s obvious that people are angry, frustrated...

‘Pouty’ Dems kill pension reform bill

Commentary: Unionville, school districts across state suffer because Democratic house leaders refuse to vote By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com Talk about validating the voter’s choice. Just three days after losing control of the state House of Representatives, Democratic leaders Keith McCall and Todd Eachus announced that the house would not take up the state teacher pension reform bill...