Letter: Kennett taxes too high
To The Editor:
Kennett Township residents, our taxes are too high! Our Township Supervisors, led by Allan Falcoff, claim our taxes are the 4th lowest of the surrounding Townships. Don’t be fooled. The Supervisors conveniently do not include the .5% Earned Income Tax (EIT), which dwarfs our Township property taxes, in their figures.
The Township’s 2011 budget projects that property taxes...
Letter: Lack of Kennett transparancy disturbing
To The Editor:
Recent news reports of the Kennett Township Board of Supervisors’ expensive efforts to prevent a township citizen from seeing what should be public documents has me scratching my head. A quick review of the documents requested on Scudder Stevens’ website www.scudderforsupervisor.org makes clear that the documents he requested are readily available on other municipalities’...
Letter: Why is the Victim to Blame?
To The Editor:
Why is a victim being blamed for the costs incurred by Kennett Township supervisors to prevent a taxpayer from viewing documents which are “public information?” In the article “Candidate accuses Kennett Township board of violating state Right-To-Know laws” printed September 14, 2011 in The Chester County Press, Alan Falcoff, chairman of the Kennett Board of Supervisors,...
Column: Bad Karma
Volume 1: Quaking in our boots
By P.J. D’Annunzio, Staff Writer, KennettTimes.com
Every morning before she leaves for work, my mother pops a blank tape in the VCR (they still exist) to record her favorite soap opera while she’s away.
Imagine her disappointment when she comes home to find her stories interrupted by at least an hour’s worth of frantic newscasters, who in a breaking-news frenzy...
Op-Ed: Choices Ideological Not Budgetary
Tom Houghton
In The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes “the United States supports schools in Afghanistan because we know that education is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to build a country. Alas, we’ve forgotten that lesson at home. All across America, school budgets are being cut, teachers laid off and education programs dismantled”.
Kristof refers to education...
Column: the fundamentals of economic failure
Summer of discontent has voters asking ‘what’s going on here?’
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Welcome to the summer of economic insanity.
More than likely, you’ve heard about the madness in D.C. on the debt ceiling and it has more than a few of us scratching our heads, being more about political theater than good governance.
But…leave it to Gov. Tom Corbett...
Op-Ed: Addressing region’s transportation needs a necessity
By Ryan Costello, Chester County Commissioner
Chester County Commissioner Ryan Costello.
Chester County has been nationally recognized as one of the best places to live, work, raise a family and enjoy your golden years.
Many factors contribute to the quality of life we all enjoy. These factors include good schools, first rate employers, plenty of high quality jobs, a healthy environment and responsible...
Letter: Mushroom Festival grants might be best kept secret in area
To The Editor:
One of the Best Kept Secrets in Kennett Square…
The Mushroom Festival! Well it’s not the festival itself that is a secret; the Festival is well known and rated as one of the best food festivals in the nation. What I am talking about are the grants that the Mushroom Festival provides to local non-profits. The Festival raises tens of thousands of dollars each year, which they...
