Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11. If today, of all days, you cannot be respectful, mind your language because somebody doesn’t share your political beliefs, and refrain from asking dumb arsed questions that are deliberately inflammatory, I find that pathetic.
I have zero tolerance regarding drivel.
Zero tolerance.
Zero respect.
Also point of fact: I can like whatever I choose or dislike whatever I choose because my blog and my blog’s Facebook page are mine. My thoughts don’t belong to other people as far as what they think I should write or not write about.
I also am increasingly intolerant of people who want to be deliberately ignorant.
A lot of the ignorant don’t remember what it was like right after 9/11.
People came together.
People were united.
It didn’t matter what political party was your choice. It didn’t matter what the color of your skin was or your religion, people put everything aside and united. Whether we were born here or immigrated here we were all Americans after 9/11.
Today of all days, people should try to put their political pettiness aside, but that is all I have seen on social media and elsewhere. I even saw it reflected in the 9/11 ceremonies. Today, everything I have seen has been about that fateful day except what I saw down in Washington DC, which was basically a contrived current administration circus.
Of course that circus and its petty ugliness can be reflected every day in our nation’s capital. Washington DC has never been perfect, because it is not only the center of American politics, but built on a literal swamp as well as the figurative one. But Washington used to have its own grace and charm from the monuments we know so well, and the famous buildings to the quirky streets of Georgetown, or the cool neighborhoods of Southeast.
The Washington we see today? It just reflects the ugliness of the administration. Every time we turn around there’s something more garish or grotesque planned. Or trees cut down and rose gardens designed by Bunny Mellon decimated.
And I am sure there will be people that will ballyhoo about this post. Guess what? I don’t care.
I am tired of the ugliness in our area and country. I am tired of people attacking each other because they have different identities and aren’t all twinsies. I am tired of people attacking each other because they have different political belief systems.
This 9/11 falls in the 250th anniversary year of this country and as Americans, we should be embarrassed that this is what this country has devolved to.
I continue writing today about this important date in our history because I’m also disappointed in the yackety yack don’t talk back of our politicians and elected officials. They talk the talk, but they never walk the walk. We see that by looking no further than some of our local communities.
In East Whiteland Township, for example, elected officials have the ability to deal with a data center developer only it’s like they’re too afraid to do that? They are also being lead around by the nose by some of the people they employ. And then, of course, there are certain Great Valley Democrats, who want to rule the world, but really can’t and they love data centers.
In Westtown Township, residents suffer with the tyranny of the elected officials. Except it’s really one elected official who controls the rest. And when the historic commission disagreed with decrees from on high what happened? Oh they were banished weren’t they? Off with their heads!
In West Pikeland Township there is one elected official who seems to think it’s her life’s mission to destroy a dedicated memorial and part of a local park? She makes pathetic speeches at meetings and wants everyone to think she’s some kind of a victim when she’s the villain in this play and why is that? Is this just because she needs attention? Well is this the attention she wants?
In West Vincent, elected officials and the township manager seems to want to hide from everything? But even when it’s quiet, people know it’s not what it should be don’t they? What’s bubbling below the surface?
In East Pikeland the howdy doody haired “king” is more and more like the joker isn’t he? The king needs to be dethroned and he’s been the chair since 2009 and what does that Township have to show for it? They have a really big EPA site called the Kimberton Super Fund site that they don’t like to talk about much do they? They have a manager that devoted like a good couple decades of her career and was disappeared? How does that work? Isn’t isn’t it past time to clean house in East Pikeland from the elected officials to the interesting departments? I guess the biggest thing I do not get about this municipality is how the majority of the residents are so content being sheeple?
And then we go to Honey Brook. Two out of the three elected officials are rather vile. They have a new manger who seems competent but how long will she be able to stand it and how does that bobble headed solicitor still have a job? This week we saw the majority of the supervisors completely unwilling to champion their residents in favor of a developer and no one is surprised so who will they point fingers at as more accidents occur around a development area that needs traffic calming measures?
And also people in Honey Brook and the surrounding area are now questioning who in the Twin Valley School Board of it all seems in favor of whatever oddness is happening in New Morgan? Who stands to gain what specifically and isn’t that an interesting question?
Tredyffrin of course is in full “nothing to see here” mode but that is not true is it? Any other naming rights that anybody wants to get out of their system? Or how about the fact that can we call it racism being a motivator as to why they won’t ever seem to deal with the off-campus student housing issues of it all in Mount Pleasant? In this municipality, they would benefit from a manager change because being Bashore-lite (late of Radnor) isn’t a place anybody wants to be is it? Also, are they really home rule charter anymore?
In Willistown you have people in an uproar again over Rock Hill Farm. Will the township settle with the developer or not? The lawn sign and T-shirt crowd really wants them to save the land, but do they have any reality that they live with as to what the land is worth versus what a township even like Willistown can afford? The whole situation sucks but in the end, I think that’s going down to development. Maybe if the residents had lawyered up early on, but now isn’t it all just too late? honestly I really wish it could all be preserved, but maybe they will be able to preserve some of it? Oh, and then there’s the West Nile virus sampling taken at a park.
Anyway I have now vented my spleen completely on 9/11.
As a country, we need to be better and do better; same for our region.
And I’m tired of the asshat parade on social media. If you don’t like what I write, don’t read it.
I rode in my friend Barry’s flag balloon on 9/11 in 2012 over Chester County.
Twenty- five years. Let that sink in for a moment. Twenty-five years and a not so long from now, the first plane was hitting the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan.
Where were you? I was pulling in to my office garage at 2 Tower Bridge in Conshohocken, PA. I heard the news come across the car radio. I sat there in silence with tears running down my face saying to myself (out loud, actually) “They came back.”
I know I’ve told this story since 9/11 but I really did come out of the World Trade Center shopping concourse above the garage when they blew up the garage in February 1993.
It’s 8:45 AM and 8:46 AM the moment of silence at the World Trade Center Memorial in NYC begins.
25 years ago today, everything changed. 2983 people lost their lives.
On February 23, 1993 there was the first attack on the World Trade Center. The attack is one that people don’t talk about.
The years move away from the dates, but we never forget. They are literally dates which live in our minds in infamy. To paraphrase FDR, who was in his time, referring to Pearl Harbor.
One of the photos in this post opens with is one I took one summer and it is the controversial 9/11 Memorial in New Jersey. Known as the “teardrop memorial”, it is located in Bayonne. I think it has a kind of strength and beauty to it.
In 2006 I wrote a piece for the local paper:
Sept. 11, 2006, is the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and United Airlines Flight 93’s crash in the field in Shanksville, Somerset County. This date has special significance to every American, and intense personal significance to far too many individuals who lost friends and loved ones.
But September 11, wasn’t the first time terrorists visited the World Trade Center. In truth, Feb. 26, 1993. was the date of the first terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York City. I worked in New York at that time at an office located downtown in the financial district.
On that day, I had accompanied an office friend to the World Trade Center to grab an early lunch and to check out some stores in the shopping concourse. We were back outside the Trade Center buildings, getting ready to cross the street, when suddenly the ground shook and moved. I remember that we were looking directly across the street at Century 21, a department store in Lower Manhattan. Then something happened that rarely happens in New York: Everything went eerily still and quiet. We looked up at what we first thought were snowflakes beginning to float and fall from the sky. After all, it was February. Then car alarms began to go off one by one like the cacophony of many distorted bells. The snowflakes, we soon discovered, were in reality ashes.
People began yelling and screaming. It became very confusing and chaotic all at once, like someone flipped a switch to “on.” At first, we both felt rooted to the sidewalk, unable to move. I remember feeling a sense of panic at the unknown. We had absolutely no idea what had happened, and hurried back to our office. Reaching it, we were greeted by worried coworkers who told us that someone had set off a bomb underground in the World Trade Center garage.
I will never forget the crazy kaleidoscope of images, throughout that afternoon, of all the people who were related to or knew people in my office who sought refuge in our office after walking down the innumerable flights of steps in the dark to exit the World Trade Center Towers. They arrived with soot all over their faces, hands and clothes. They all wore zombie looks of shock, disbelief and panic.
Of course, the oddest thing about the first terrorist attack on New York City is that I don’t remember much lasting fuss about it. I do remember that President Bill Clinton was newly sworn into office, but I don’t remember him coming to visit New York after the attack. Everything was back to normal in Lower Manhattan in about a month, maybe two. After a while, unless you had worked in New York, or lived in New York, you simply forgot about this “incident.”
So, on the morning of 9/11, as I pulled into my office building’s garage and listened to the breaking news on the radio announcing that a plane had struck the World Trade Center, tears began to run down my face unbidden. I knew in my heart of hearts what happened. I said to myself, “Oh no. They came back.”
I remember picking up my cell phone to call my father, whom I knew to be, at that time, on an Amtrak train bound for New York City. I remember him telling me it was fine and he’d be fine. I wanted him to get off in New Jersey and take a train back to Philadelphia. But the train was already pretty much past all the stations and getting ready to go into the tunnel to New York. That very thought terrified me. To this day, I still do not understand why Amtrak did not stop those last trains from going into New York City as the news of the World Trade Center attacks first broke.
I next remember getting in the elevator and getting off on my office floor to find people clustered around television sets and radios. And the news kept getting worse: first one plane, then a second, then a third, and then a fourth.
The images and news just didn’t stop. Camera cuts from lower Manhattan to Washington to Somerset County. They are images that have to be ingrained in everyone’s mind forever like indelible ink.
It took a couple of days for my father and brother-in-law (who had already been in New York on business) to get out of the city, but eventually they got home safely with many stories to tell of what New York was like in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. A lot of people weren’t so lucky. They never saw their loved ones again after that fateful morning. Many people in the Philadelphia and greater Main Line area lost friends, coworkers and loved ones.
On September 11, I knew people who were lost, but fortunately I didn’t lose any loved ones. I remember for a brief time it seemed we were all a little nicer to each other, and politicians actually seemed to come together as one and grieve as a nation grieved.
But here we are five short years later. I have only seen the site one time where the World Trade Center once stood proudly. That was about a year after the attacks. I remember a distinct pit in my stomach and looked away from the car window. This past June I was in Washington, and had the same intense, awful feeling in my stomach as we drove on the highway past the Pentagon.
Life must go on and time can’t stand still, but all in all I can’t help but wonder: What have we learned since about our country and about ourselves? Five years after 9/11 what have we learned and what have we forgotten? What do we need to remember?
So back to the morning of 9/11 when the first plane hit. I realized then my now late father was on a freaking train to New York City. I pulled out my cell phone, which looked like a weird small brick from Nokia I believe.
I called him. Miraculously he answered. I asked him where he was, and he said Metro Park I said good is it stopped at Metro Park? He said yes why and I said a plane just went in to the World Trade Center. I think it’s a terrorist attack get off and take a train back before you can’t get out of Manhattan.
I will never forget what he said, and it was that the Amtrak conductor assured all of the passengers there was nothing to worry about, and he was just going to continue into New York City.
We didn’t actually talk to him again for a couple of days because you couldn’t get phone calls in or out of New York right after 9/11 for a good couple of days.
I remembered this particular part of 9/11 over the summer when I was at my nephew’s wedding in the Hamptons. It was there I literally saw a guest I hadn’t seen since my late brother-in-law’s funeral many years ago. It was a friend and someone my late brother-in-law used to work with whose family literally lent my late brother-in-law and late father an apartment for a few days because they couldn’t get off the island of Manhattan after 9/11.
People kind of forget that part of the chaos post-terrorist attack. The being cut off from people we knew in all sorts of places, who had ties to places like NYC or Washington, DC.
Other things I remember? Having a couple of childhood friends who were siblings show up on missing and possibly dead lists. One worked for Marsh & McMcLennan and the other for the Port Authority of NY and NJ. One sibling in particular was on that list for days after 9/11. Turns out one or both were out of town.
But I will never forget that feeling of combing through those lists looking to see whom we knew was on those lists. On one list were two guys that went to college with me. One I knew peripherally the other not at all, but I knew who he was. Both were close friends of another friend of mine’s husband.
I remember having a conversation with someone after 9/11 who had a job in the Pentagon. They were the opposite side from where the plane hit.
So many people had stories. I also remember speaking with someone well after 9/11 who if I remember correctly was from like Michigan or something and they knew people who physically went to NYC after 9/11 because they were trying to find family members that worked in the financial district and in the World Trade Center buildings.
A related aside is many years ago before 1993 or 9/11, I had a couple of interviews with brokerage firms or financial places in the World Trade Center buildings. I remember I did not like going up in those elevators. And I also remember there were like big escalators in that building as well. People thought it was such a cachet to work in those buildings and I remember thinking back then they’re just too tall, even in a city of skyscrapers.
I think a lot of us also knew first responders who were from other areas who went to New York City to help. I also know a couple of people whose family members were first responders in the New York Metropolitan area.
In that vein over the years, you’ve had the people who claimed they went to New York to help after 9/11. But didn’t. You even had a guy who said he was assigned from NYPD down to the financial district after 9/11 to help look for people or whatever they were all doing, but really wasn’t he was in the Bronx or something. You also have the tall tales with the current president when it comes to 9/11.
I really despise the people who fake things about being part of efforts post 9/11. I don’t understand people that need to build their own images on a national tragedy.
Someone I know who was the first responder said today that the best way to honor people on 9/11 is to be the people we all were 9/12.
I saw this drone show thing from New York and it’s very moving. I’m sharing a snippet from the ABC affiliate up there:
As a country from the most local things to national, we are a cesspool of messiness. People wanna tell you what it’s like to be a patriot or an American. They don’t have the first clue. We have become an international embarrassment, not strength. And because of the current administration, we are once again I believe wide open to incidents like what happened 9/11 25 years ago.
We have a president who wants to tell tall tales about 9/11 and even issue AI generated ridiculousness to make himself look like a hero on whatever his truth social account is.
We have a president with an administration which kowtows to him when they know they shouldn’t. I can’t decide if it’s because they are actually afraid of him or they can’t admit they made a mistake in getting behind him. of course the other point to ponder is some of them simply put are just stupid especially the women I have never seen so many ridiculous women in positions of power. It’s embarrassing to be a woman and look at them. Bad plastic surgery and Botox-laden twits. And the men? Half of them who are in positions where they have anything to do with the military have no military background. They’re just there because they’ll do what what’s his name wants.
We are an international joke. We are also because of the actions of this administration creates increasingly vulnerable situations. Spoiled boys shouldn’t be playing war.
And I keep waiting for elected officials to find their spines to stand up to this stuff and write the ship that is capsized that is our country and democracy. And all they do is talk.
The 25th anniversary of 9/11 falls on the 250th anniversary of this country.
Liberty weeps and so do I.
Remember, 9/11 accurately.
Remember those who lost their lives. Remember the first responders and others from all over not just New York City, who are still alive and struggling with health issues and what not because of what they were exposed to on that fateful day and the days thereafter. Honor all those people and this event by getting your asses to the polls on election day.
It’s time to right the ship of democracy.
To be an American is who we are. We come from all walks of life. We come from all races, creeds, colors, nationalities. We are a nation, literally born of immigrants, and it’s time to start treating those people with respect which means getting rid of the frozen feds.
Be a real patriot, not one that just expects a check from a crazy old man who seems to think that’s what it takes to get people to vote. we all know the phrase. The check is in the mail and if you think he’s gonna pay you anything I can sell you a bridge in Brooklyn.
Well, that’s my rant for the 25th anniversary. As Americans, we have an obligation to be better than what we currently are allowing in this country.
Screenshot from the very public and apparently not very updated. Chesco Democratswebsite.
Soooo. This is just a funny little post about wondering if Jerry Pyne is East Whiteland‘s shadow cabinet? I am just asking a question. I am not asserting that by design or anything else. It’s just he seems to insert himself often doesn’t he?
So he has an interesting history. He is now the past vice chair of the Chester County Democratic Committee. it’s actually embarrassing for them that he still shows up when you do a Google search as being Vice Chair because the current Vice Chair is Michelle Smith. and truly that is progress. I don’t always agree with her, but I know she does her best and does her homework and has honor. That is also not saying I have anything to do with this because really my opinion doesn’t matter to them. It’s just an opinion.
Anywhoo, Jerry reared his head and sometimes ruddy complexion when East Whiteland residents were gathering signatures to get the question on the ballot of should East Whiteland Township go to five supervisors.
See there’s Gerry directing opinion traffic or trying to.
Jerry likes to mansplain from what I’m told, but he was practically rabid about this not making the fall ballot wasn’t he? And I am sure he is working feverishly to make sure people don’t vote for this yes?
I never actually realized until this morning that he lives in East Whiteland. I thought he lived over the border in Charlestown for some reason but I guess that’s where the other crazy Jerry lives who is the Republican? It’s easy to get them mixed up because they are a type and there’s one from each party in such close proximity to one another right?
Jerry is a committee person for the Great Valley Democrats. His patch is Peoples Light and he is in the first precinct.
This morning, I was chatting with a friend who is a prodigious reader of meeting minutes of multiple municipalities. Truly a research marvel. So she says to me, do you know who your vacancy board person is in your township? And I said no, why?
Then I got the following screenshot:
Oh, and here’s the link in case anyone thinks I’m making it up:
And there he is Mr. Vacancy Board 2026! I wonder if he has a pretty sash like a prom queen or beauty pageant winner?
Anyway, what does that mean for the rest of us mere mortals ? Simple. If someone resigns or is removed from office or takes a leave of absence or is incapacitated in any manner he’s the guy that gets called up for tied votes. He’s a vote tie breaker.
Legally, however, he cannot vote himself to be a more permanent supervisor of the board in a situation. The purpose of this position is in part to decide upon a replacement Supervisor should a Supervisor position become vacant. It’s kind of important and people often overlook this spot in township government, myself included. honestly I had forgotten about the position.
It is mostly succinctly put an often overlooked but influential and important position.
And what would happen if he somehow came in via the vacancy board while this data center is still being decided?
Another valid question yes?
So he doesn’t want five supervisors as he loses his power right? He doesn’t want five supervisors because he loves data centers doesn’t he? I mean, shall we recall that email that recently surfaced in a voluminous right to know?
Allow me:
That is from 2023 and he was pushing data centers because his excuse? Didn’t want to appear business unfriendly correct?
Now the backup generation they were talking about at the time if I’m not mistaken, was the failed attempt at getting a hydrogen hub immediately over the township borders into West Whiteland with samey same developer yes?
So I have a hypothesis and I’m going to ask another question. Does Jerry Pyne want to be a supervisor eventually in East Whiteland? This is easy way to get noticed via the back door if you are like the vacancy board person or appointed by the vacancy board because someone steps down or leaves or whatever?
That snake is not too subtle in this patch of grass IMHO so people need to keep an eye on him and this is yet another reason why we need to vote for five supervisors on the fall ballot.
Duplicitous is as duplicitous does?
Time will tell but right now I just have questions do any of you?
Life is very interesting right now.
Life is also not a conspiracy theory until suddenly it feels like one. Seeing that guy’s name next to vacancy board doesn’t help though does it?
Hey it’s me, I’m the problem you see… oh nevermind you are probably not a Swiftie are you?
At this evening’s meeting I learned you were not a dog guy (Great Valley Pet Hotel situation) so maybe you would prefer a ferret cottage?
This evening you were quite frankly a dickhead to the residents who elected you. Even I voted for you, but now wish I had not.
Our perception of you is you seem to think your role besides being a data center apologist is to be some sort of municipal bouncer? The do as I say not as I do manners police?
Here we are lectured at every meeting about how we are supposed to behave and how we are not supposed to have personalattacks and there you sit with your smug face up there in the front of the room, basically sniping at every resident, and sadly, your kind of abuse is permitted? Make that make sense, we’re waiting.
I know at the Great Valley Democrats or whatever they are calling yourselves now my name has come up in meetings along with Ginny Kerslake and why is that? Are you not responsible for your own actions and choices?
You are a politician. You signed up for baby kissing, ribbon cutting, and public scrutiny. If you don’t like how people perceive you, maybe look into the mirror?
You did a very public interview with NBC10 once upon a time. That’s why I voted for you as did many others. How are you that person?
What I saw tonight was utterly appalling. You are not a public servant, you are merely self-serving.
And smug and dismissive of residents.
And that offensive “staff” commentary? Dude, do you mistake yourself for the fictional Robert Crawley, the 7th Earl of Grantham?
If we the residents who elected you are so objectionable, you have the option of resigning.
So there is this group called Red Wine, and Blue. I picture them sitting around, whining as they’re wining.
I didn’t even know who or what they were until I think it was a few months ago now. Somehow they got a hold of both my email and my cell phone. I do not give my cell phone out and basically until them I had managed to remove myself from all solicitation lists from both political parties.
My political journey is no secret. I was a registered Republican until 2016. I could not stomach being a Republican when someone became the nominee. I had always been an inveterate ticket splitter my entire life and at that point in time I didn’t want to give up the primaries so I became a registered Democrat.
By 2016 I had been voting more for more Democrat candidates than Republican candidates. I always look at the candidates as individual people I don’t vote because a political party has told me that is what I am supposed to do.
Truthfully, that has been a turn off since the Lower Merion Democrats shenanigans during the early days of eminent domain for private gain in Ardmore. So this one Election Day a friend and I were standing on the sidewalk in front of St. Mary’s Church in Ardmore with other people (it was a poll location back then I assume it still is today), and we watched this Democrat committee woman from South Ardmore come up to this little old lady and tell her not to talk to any of us. This lady had been speaking to us and was looking at our flyer that they would take her into the polls and she could vote the way they told her to.
Anyway, I think I have told five different people from this organization either via email or text message to not contact me. Today they worked their last nerve and I will share the conversation which centered around all of the PA Democrats ignoring their constituents and communities about data centers or fibbing about the topic, but first I will share why what this woman is saying is BS.
RWB woman who phoned named “Sherry” said they lobbied in Harrisburg against data centers? When was that? The Conservation Voters lobby day was for the bullshit bills.
Do you see data centers on there as a priority for protecting Pennsylvania residents? I don’t.
I wouldn’t exactly say that RWB has been “out front on the issue all year” except maybe to use it to promote Democrats? But that’s not the same as working to stop projects and toward a statewide moratorium which is what we need isn’t it?
Maybe she’s referring to the BS bills that were being put forward instead of a moratorium?
Does this organization do some good work? I am told yes. But I really hate the parties and legislators and organizations using this data center issue just for campaigning when they aren’t actually doing anything to protect communities and the environment from this don’t you?
And even worse… they are helping Democrats give the illusion of doing something when they’renot. So they are working against efforts to hold Democrats and Republicans alike accountable and allowing this greenwashing.
Many are of the opinion (and I agree) that the really “big”Green groups like Sierra Club, NRDC, PEC, Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania, Penn Future have a history of compromising in order to have a seat at the table in Harrisburg. I am entitled to that opinion incidentally. 
There is only one big group that doesn’t compromise and that’s Food and Water Watch and other groups like The Delaware Riverkeeper Network. When those people speak with you, you know they are with you and they stand beside you. They don’t compromise.
Even more important is the issue with data centers is not a red or blue issue. This is about human rights. Now, a friend of mine, who believes in this aspect also said to me when we were discussing this today, the following:
I often find that human rights never seems to be of concern to anyone. So I change everything to an economic argument.
In no way is this even economical:
1. The costs to local townships from health and environment from the adverse impacts exceed tax revenue
2. The data center tech is already obsolete. It’s like trying to sell the original IBM main frame computer that took up a room after personal computer came out.
3. Depleting your natural resources compromised your economic stability as a nation. Poor, malnourished people can’t fight wars
This is all a pyramid scheme for Wall Street.
To borrow a phrase from those who organized and stay organized against the pipelines and that issue: this is a defend what you love issue.
And as another friend said to me today as we were discussing this:
Regardless of political affiliation, we all want: to be safe, not have our property ruined or value reduced for corporate gain, quality of life and place, clean air and water, etc…..
And we all expect our government to be putting our best interest first not corporations
The data center fight is waking so many people up across Pennsylvania and the country to how this is not happening.
People this is our world. So don’t be hoodwinked by political fundraising that’s about them and not about us. For midterms season and the election season coming up in November 2026. It’s a simple thing: these people all need to take our position we don’t have to support theirs.
Oh East Whiteland Township climb up out of the twisted rabbit hole you seem trapped in by choice would you please? I mean does anyone want another Bishop Tube situation? You know that site that is never cleaned up yet the plan(s) keep getting the kick the can down the road treatment for how many years now?
So the other day I popped up a telling email from East Whiteland:
So then I saw this from East Whiteland which must have come out around the same time?
So let’s ponder this.
Let’s chat cap ok?
Isn’t the entire point of a cap to keep the contaminated soil in place? Grading up the land to make it equal to the cap completely ruins the point and the groundwater and storm water run off is going to infiltrate the cap isn’t it?
And maybe they aren’t digging on the cap but isn’t any kind of soil disturbance no bueno? You know like the tire tracks and where they are seen?
And then there is this letter:
I guess I just don’t understand what East Whiteland doesn’t understand, do you? Hope those politicians are enjoying their Waterloo right?
The next meeting is Wednesday, September 9 at 6:30PM at the East Whiteland Township Building (209 Conestoga Road, Frazer PA.) They did not get a bigger space, so pack the room and Zoom.
They will undoubtedly tell everyone that they should not express how they feel if it’s the same as the person before or after. That’s wrong. You have a legal right to express yourself politely.
They will say non residents can’t talk. Also not legally true is it?
They will also probably once again subvert the public record and violate sunshine by cutting out room reactions, comments from the audience, and public deliberations and they can’t do that either can they? (I have now emailed twice about this issue and have received no response.)
Also pay close attention to the public meeting minutes. They are cherry picking reporting who is commenting. Look at July 8 minutes for example- it is like State Senator Katie Muth was never there among others isn’t it?
And has East Whiteland or the data center developer ever said where soil, and fluids, and debris goes specifically? Foote Mineral is still an EPA site after all isn’t it?
IMHO East Whiteland is delaminating and residents are the losers aren’t they?
There’s good old Maggie Dobbs above. She is the current manager of Narberth Borough. I say current manager because they tend to change with the seasons or with fashion trends or something, right?
Maggie Dobbs is a trained city planner (Rutgers) who spent a decade writing comprehensive plans across Montgomery County before stepping into her current role as Borough Manager of Narberth, Pennsylvania, a half-square-mile community tucked inside Lower Merion Township just outside of Philadelphia. She arrived after a period of leadership turnover. What she found was not a small job. It was a dense one.
Host Brandon Ford and co-host Nancy Hesshave a wide ranging conversation with Maggie that moves through the real experience of borough management: the math of running a full municipal government — police, public works, library, eleven miles of road — with fifteen people and a fraction of a township’s budget; the intimacy that makes boroughs special and the same intimacy that makes criticism land close to the heart; and the reality that wearing every hat in the building demands more knowledge, not less, than specializing in a larger organization.
Hmmm first question: does Narberth Borough approve these outside activities? Or Lower Merion Township for that matter because Brandon Ford is the assistant township manager there right?
Next question: who is this PR stunt really for? Maggie Dobbs or Narberth? I ask because Maggie doesn’t seem to stay places long term does she?
In this podcast which I encourage everyone to listen to they further remark in the podcast comments:
Maggie is candid about walking into a community that had cycled through five managers in four years, what it took to steady that ship, and why her focus is on building standard operating procedures so the day-to-day can run itself. Along the way, the crew explores Narberth’s housing story
So her waxing poetic about this little hot mess of a borough is amusing since The Sabine Coalition exists to protect a park from residential development yes? And there are even more issues brewing in South Narberth, right?
