Nether Providence Township held its regular meeting last night – listed as a workshop and legislative meeting instead of just legislative. I’m not sure why, because in practice there’s little difference between the workshop and legislative meetings. The video of this fairly short meeting is available on Youtube […]
The Commonwealth Court, one of the appeals courts in Pennsylvania, ruled last Thursday that the sale of the Chester Water Authority to Aqua can go ahead. The decision is here and appears to have been 5-2. That will be appealed and apparently there’s still much litigation to go. […]
Also of local relevance today is the announcement that Delaware County Council will host an educational session on the future of solid waste handling in the county on September 30th. The session will happen at 6 pm in the county council room in Media. County Council and the […]
The DelCo Times has a short article today highlighting the rise in cases among the young. The numbers don’t look good. The positivity rate has risen from 6.3% to 6.8%, the incident rate is 117 per 100k, although the article doesn’t give the units for this number. 117 […]
The WSSD school board held its regularly scheduled meeting. The video is available on Youtube, and the agenda is available on BoardDocs. Student and Superintendent Reports The board received its first student report of the year, largely covering the start to the school year at each of the […]
One of the legacies of September 11th was an expanded system of state surveillance starting with the Patriot Act, which passed two months later. A lot has changed in the last 20 years – now virtually everyone carries a device (such as a cell phone) that allows the […]
The township board of commissioners held their regularly scheduled workshop meeting on September 9th, video is available on Youtube. The minutes were approved and there were no public comments. The solicitor reported on the 5G right of way planned ordinance and the engineer noted that the Glenn Rd. […]
The most common question (after what is a Constable) is why run for Constable. This recent special report from Reuters highlights the reason we need to elect active Constables. In the state of Pennsylvania, Constables are responsible for the safe operation of polling places on Election Days. In […]
Last month, Furness Library posted a nice video that PBS made with Children and Youth Librarian Ms. Lori. It gives a good run down on what’s going on at the library, and some background about the library. Its only a few minutes, so take a look!
In 2016, Nether Providence Township contracted with a group at Temple to produce the Nether Providence Master Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. It is a great report with lots of useful information. We’re 5 years into the plan, so today I took a 13 mile bike ride to evaluate […]
