Gentle Reader, if you haven't engaged in the activity of thinking for a while, your humble blogress has a prescription for you: tune in to the Upper Providence Board of Supervisors meetings every first and third Monday, where Board Chairman John Pearson indulges his ego and reads a Googled vignette into the record, the purpose …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 3/19/18 Episode 3: Preservation Reservations
A successful compromise is usually defined as both sides being equally unhappy. By that measure, I don’t think we can call the new PA Supreme Court congressional map a “success,” but we are stuck with it, so we may as well embrace it for entertainment value if for nothing else. So sit back and pop …
Seriously. National Review: Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development, suggested his wife was responsible for the purchase of a $31,000 dining set for his office during his testimony before a House committee Tuesday. Carson said his wife selected the “style and color” for the dining set and indicated the order was placed …
Last month, smack-dab in the middle of the three week petition gathering season, the Democrat-controlled PA Supreme Court decided to ignore the Constitution, overstep their authority and redrew the boundaries of Pennsylvania's U.S. Congressional Districts. This threw the entire Republican Party into a tailspin as they scrambled to find and vet candidates for newly created …
What would an actual alien invasion of Earth look like? Would there be humanoid life forms? Spaceships? Or would it look completely different? We've all seen our share of typical alien invasion movies that employ most of the same plot devices: the spaceships arriving, the struggle to communicate, the fight against more advanced technology, and …
I’ve got no post for 2/20/18 meeting, but I would like to note that Supervisor Phil Barker’s rejoinder to the Democrats’ “kicking the can down the road” talking point on fire and EMS made at the 2/5 meeting is definitely worth a watch. He even brings props. It begins at 1:47 in the 2/20/18 meeting …
Continue reading UPT Board Meeting Notes 3/5/18 Episode 2: Campaign Trail Promise Fulfillment Season
Our clocks only got set back an hour, but you are to be forgiven if you think they've gone back eight years. Joe Hoeffel, once the Perpetual Candidate for Any Available Office, is back, and he is running for Congress in the newly created, wide-open 4th Congressional District in Montgomery County. Morning Call: The race …
My spotters tell me that once and future candidate for Township Supervisor, Bill Kasper and his wife, Lori, have been in attendance at four of the five Upper Providence Township Supervisors Meetings this year. Not that you’d know, because, like ghosts, they have been both silent and invisible to the cameras at these meetings. Given …
The following slides were presented at a Spring 2017 Upper Providence Board of Supervisors public meeting. The proposed funding formula was passed at a May 2017 meeting. As one can see from the slides below, the previous (2016) formula was heavily weighted towards the Black Rock Volunteer Fire Company. The new funding formula re-allocates the …
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