Hundreds protest Trump, Musk over cuts to Veterans’ funding, staffing

Hundreds of local protestors came out Friday in West Chester to address cuts to the Veterans Administration by President Donald Trump. Image courtesy of Erica Deuso. Hundreds of local residents and elected official gathered Friday at the Historic West Chester courthouse to protest cuts to veterans’ benefits and the slashing of thousands of jobs throughout the Veterans’ Administration (VA). Local...

Trump, Musk aren’t reforming government, they’re looting it

By Mike McGann, Editor The Times @mikemcgann.bsky.social Maybe you saw the headlines: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a number of Chester County agricultural facilities recently and appears to have taken some workers into custody, setting up the potential for local chaos and spoiled crops in the coming weeks. Random, nonsensical firings have occurred across the federal government...

Pay attention: we’re in uncharted territory

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgann.bsky.social It is becoming clear what a bizarre time we find ourselves living in: an unelected billionaire rooting through much of our private data for no particular reason, ICE (and fake ICE) agents roaming the Chester County looking for undocumented aliens and just a general state of chaos and Constitution-busting. In a few short weeks, the United States...