Hello Chester County! Welcome to the nastiest race in Chester County! The Honey Brook Thug Politics Cabal is in a FULL ON swivet because people like Valerie Shultz and they want better in local government than those people.
Sadly, every day these pathetic humans are harassing people including the executive branch of the Chesco GOP in West Chester, aren’t they?
I mean, I guess this is a step up and intimidation and harassment tactics from some rando truck following people around in Honey Brook Township on occasion, including somebody’s kids right? But how you know it’s Honeybrook there’s nothing to see here, right?
What’s next? Mythical complaints to voter services about campaign signs without a disclaimer or whatever? Note to cabal: buy better readers at The WalMart because they are there, however where bubba was a hoodie is concerned what is it with him referencing a benefactor on his signs yet say something like paid for by the candidate?
And is he taking down his own signs to say they are being stolen? Or is he placing them on private property where he doesn’t have explicit permission to post his lame signs?
Honey Brook, stop the badness and the madness with these people and #vote4val
My disclaimer: I’m exercising my first amendment rights. I am not part of any campaign. I do not donate financially to political campaigns and never have. I believe in paying it forward and that is what I am doing here.
Honey Brook deserves better than the thug politics cabal which also extends to the Twin Valley School Board. Vote for change; break the cabal with a #vote4val
The other day I saw the most disturbing thing go by in a parenting group on Facebook.
A woman posted seeking doctor and even hospital referrals for a friend who is concerned about weird physiological and physical symptoms being exhibited by their adult child and her friend wasn’t on Facebook. For expediency, because the random things that this young adult is facing, the woman posting posted some of the “what happeneds” as a way to explain ER visits.
Well the comments went from Doctor Google to Doctor Grok at the ChatGPT minute clinic. It was literally astounding. You see instead of saying try certain hospitals for ERs and specialists, these people put what the woman wrote into AI and were cutting and pasting AI diagnoses!
It was literally like watching a car crash unfold. All I kept thinking was these were women with children, and kids get sick, so are they no longer taking kids to the doctor but using artificial intelligence to diagnose their kids?
That totally freaked me out because of the sheer stupidity of it. They ran a stranger’s symptoms through AI, which along with everything else demonstrated a complete and utter lack and disregard for what was actually asked.
Look I know it’s ridiculously hard sometimes because of this country’s messy healthcare system to get in front of a specialist, but there is absolutely no substitute for real medical professionals getting eyes on a patient and performing necessary tests, scans, bloodwork. There is no substitute for speaking face to face with someone who is trained in a particular medical specialty.
Because of our cumbersome healthcare system it is often the case that we are left with only the option of going through an ER to get to specialists. That is definitely not fun, I get it, but you can’t replicate a human doctor via AI nor should you.
It’s a pain in the ass dealing with healthcare systems. I totally concur with that statement as I’ve had to deal with it far too often in the past few years, but I’m still not going to go to some AI platform on my phone to seek medical advice and no one should do it and the fact that people consider doing it with their kids is crazy.
I think this is just another example of the laziness and lack of intellectual curiosity in people today.
People have lost their common sense. I guess it’s too much effort?
I have to admit it was very nice to hear a supervisor (Carlotta Johnston-Pugh) speak up for Mount Pleasant tonight. But Tredyffrin needs to buy a clue and it needs to actually help Mount Pleasant.
The time for lip service is done.
This has been going on for years. It took forever to get this Township to enact a student housing ordinance. It still takes forever to even get anyone to deal with the problematic student houses. Blue Tarp Villa is a favorite example.
For how many years has Blue Tarp Villa been a problem? for how many years has Tredyffrin blown smoke up the asses of the residents of Mount Pleasant?
Why isn’t zoning code and general code enforcement of the student houses back there done more proactively? How many complaints do these houses need to have before whoever that person is who does the zoning and code enforcement gets out from behind her chair and does something?
Year after year, it is the same old song. And these supervisors and their predecessors know it’s a problem back there. They have known it’s a problem back there for how many years now?
I started following this issue in the early 2000s, so unless these officials(paid/appointed/elected) all live under a rock, why is it nothing ever really gets done? Like the Murph guy? Hasn’t he basically been a supervisor since the dawn of time?
Just because this isn’t a million dollar neighborhood per se, although it has some ridiculously overpriced close to million dollar infield development townhouses that are butt ugly, it doesn’t mean that this area should continually be ignored, right?
Yes, sorry, holy run-on sentence, Batman. Sometimes it just can’t be helped, and other times I just don’t care… but I digress.
At this point, it is just downright discriminatory and people need to say that out loud. It is downright discriminatory that Tredyffrin for decades has been looking the other way with regard to Mount Pleasant.
And yes, I can have that opinion.
I can’t even count the number of meetings I have watched over the years where people from Mount Pleasant have gotten up and begged for help.
Enough with the lip service Tredyffrin. The zoning people and manager need to start to earn their keep, don’t they?
I mean, gosh, Tredyffrin will it take something like a civil rights action before you help these residents?
Mount Pleasant matters. Start acting like it, Tredyffrin.
The news broke recently about this West Chester couple who have been charged with abusing their own flesh and blood to the point that I’m sure this kid has a long road ahead of him to even be healthy, physically, and may never be healthy mentally because of what he has endured, correct? The parents’ names are Leticia and Mark Cox and they are from West Chester.
It reminded me of Malinda Hoagland’a case. Only it didn’t take as long for authorities to act and the 16 year old is still alive.
At 16 years of age boys are what? Looking to get their driver’s licenses? Maybe going to a school formal? Dating? Hanging with friends? Playing sports? Playing video games? What did this boy have?
Media reports and an obituary indicate that there are older siblings? People on Facebook said the husband coached little league? If the parents are 59 and this kid is 16, the mother was 43 when she had him? That means the siblings are slightly older? How did they not know what was happening or that it was so wrong? How did everyone turn their heads on this if true?
I also have questions about the common denominator to another tragedy also in Chester County. The Malinda Hoagland case.
Why? Slow Child Line action and homeschooling, perhaps? Is homeschooling now the ideal way to hide abuse in not only Chester County but Pennsylvania?
Ok so we have another system failure in my opinion in Chester County. Chester County officials are busy hiring executive types (COO, CEO, CFO etc) so where are the actual people who do the work?
I would never ever know how overwhelmed county level children and youth departments can be if I had not known someone once upon a time who was a children and youth social worker in Montgomery County. She lasted a decade before she couldn’t take it anymore. And I will never forget her stories of what her days were like. She reveled in the small victories she would get on behalf of kids who were her cases, be torn in half by most of it. The brutal realities of child abuse and an often cumbersome system and that? That was the late 80s and early 90s and judging from all of the media reports year after year, it hasn’t improved in Pennsylvania, let alone Southeastern PA.
NEWS RELEASE: JUDGE UPHOLDS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST WEST CHESTER COUPLE CHARGED WITH FAILING TO PROVIDE MEDICAL CARE TO A CHILD VICTIM
The Chester County District Attorney’s Office, the West Chester Borough Police Department, and the Chester County Detectives jointly announce the arrest of Leticia Cox, 59, and Mark Cox Sr., 59, of West Chester, Pennsylvania, for neglecting to provide basic care to a child.
Letitia Cox, the child’s mother, is charged with Aggravated Assault, Endangering the Welfare of Children, Recklessly Endangering Another Person and Tampering with Evidence. Mark Cox, the child’s father, is charged with Endangering the Welfare of Children and Recklessly Endangering Another Person. After a multi-hour preliminary hearing earlier today, Judge Lieberman bound all charges for both defendants over to the Court of Common Pleas. This means that the case will proceed forward and will later be assigned to a Chester County Court of Common Pleas Judge in the near future.
The criminal complaints (the Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty) filed by law enforcement indicate that on April 15, 2025, a ChildLine report was made indicating that a child was severely underweight, malnourished, and had severe dental decay. The 16-year-old male victim was brought into a local healthcare office on April 15, 2025, for a routine physical and noted to be visibly emaciated and dehydrated. He was 5’4” tall, weighed approximately 74.8 pounds, noted to have sunken eyes and was nervous and reluctant. Defendant Leticia Cox brought the child to the appointment and informed the staff that she wanted to reestablish medical care for the child.
On April 16, 2025, after being urged by law enforcement and child protective services to get the child immediate medical care, Mark Cox, Sr. took the child to Chester County Hospital. The child was transferred and admitted to the Nemours Children’s Hospital, where doctors certified his condition as a near fatality.
Though the investigation revealed that the child was covered by medical insurance, investigators have not found any evidence indicating that the child victim was ever seen by a doctor or dentist prior to the visit on April 15, 2025. Phone records revealed that both Defendants were aware, to varying degrees, of the deteriorating condition of the child victim, but they neglected to seek any legitimate medical care for the child. Investigation further established that the child victim was homeschooled and had little to no in-person contact with adults outside the family.
Chester County District Attorney Christopher L. de Barrena-Sarobe stated, “Unlike many people who struggle to provide for their children, these Defendants had every resource available to them. Instead of seeking medical care, ignored their legal and moral responsibilities and prolonged this child’s suffering until he was on the brink of death.”
West Chester Borough Police Department Police Chief Joshua Lee stated, “The West Chester Police Department fully supports the investigation led by County Detectives and recognizes that protecting our most vulnerable, especially our children, is everybody’s duty and obligation.”
The Chester County Detectives led the investigation and received assistance from the West Chester Borough Police Department. First Assistant District Attorney Erin O’Brien is the assigned prosecutor. As a reminder, if you have concerns about the safety of a child, say something. Call 911 and call Childline at 1-800-932-0313.
Click on the dockets above, read what the Chester County District Attorney said. How did no one else notice or seem to care, even in the case of their OTHER children who may or may not be mostly legally adults?
The family is not some poor backwoods family if you check out the real estate records alone are they?
And it all goes back to homeschooling in part being the perfect way to hide in plain sight doesn’t it?
Where are the checks and balances?
I think that homeschool kids and their parents should be subject to on-site visits don’t you? Physical brick and mortar schools and academic institutions have standards or all sorts, so how do people really know it’s all ok with homeschooling?
I am NOT saying homeschooling shouldn’t be allowed. Not in the least, but I am saying the system needs serious help. At the state level and county level, no excuses, no political BS.
Do we really want to live in a world where child abusers hide in homeschooling?
I make no secret of the fact that FarmBoy BBQ is one of my favorite local businesses or that I know the owner. I think they have the best barbecue around and their brisket is like a religious experience.
However, I wrote a post here in August about how difficult it is getting in there because of PennDot and their endless sink hole remediation project. The project has been forever and seems to be way behind schedule.
Farm Boy is located at 625 N. Morehall Road (AKA Route 29) in Malvern.
But guess what I discovered completely by accident today? Farm Boy is on Instacart under the restaurant tab for our area!
So if you would like to help out this restaurant so that they survive PennDot hell part two (they already had to live through this sink hole remediation once with PennDot ), place an order on Instacart and Uber Eats if you don’t want to deal with the aggravation and delays created by PennDot!
Trust me, you’ll be glad you did. And if you’ve never tried Farm Boy, this is as good an excuse as any.
And if you have an extra few minutes, please contact our state Senator Katie Muth, and tell her that PennDot is strangling small businesses with their delays on Route 29.
Last night’s roast chicken with a curry paste in leftover form first became a bone broth.
Then, after broth was cooked and strained, the chicken I had leftover that had been separated from the carcass prior to bone broth was shredded and added back along with finely chopped vegetables (fresh spinach, red cabbage, red onion, celery) and simmered along to perfection.
Some of the mashed potatoes left over from the chicken became gnocchi- just enough to cook separately and fresh for bottom of the bowl and soup ladled over it.
Now last night’s chicken was a happy experiment. We love curries and I thought why not try a curry roasted chicken?
I made a curry paste and used it to roast the chicken with it.
It wasn’t too complicated to make the paste. It was a couple different kinds of curry powder that I have, red curry paste, olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic powder.
I thought that the leftovers would make a good bone broth and they did. And last night I decided some of the leftover potatoes would make great gnocchi.
And it all worked! In an era of expensive grocery prices, it was a thrifty solution to stretch groceries and make leftovers more fun!
Freaking Weston is back. I knew it would be and development is inevitable here but West Whiteland’s planning guy talks in circles, and I have always wondered if he was really there for residents?
I haven’t had a chance to read through it, but I am distinctly unsure how many houses they’re talking about. And are they all single-family home or are we talking twins and townhouses?
I don’t trust anything and I certainly don’t trust this township planning employee and I’m sorry not sorry on that regard. I can have these opinions.
And they NEED a traffic signal at Weston Way and King because residents will never be able to get out of driveways and roads in East or West Whiteland.
This photo is several years old.
People can participate on Zoom and I strongly encourage everyone to do so.
This plan is right on W. King Rd. right in West Whiteland over the East Whiteland boundary. It is across the street from the land that Eli Kahn bought from Johnson Matthey for warehouses. that land in particular needs definite careful environmental testing. And I hope that parcel is not big enough for a data center or a mega warehouse.
But first things first and what we’re seeing now is Weston. If you don’t participate where you live, you can’t complain about the outcome.
Once known as The Delaware Market House, The Gladwyne Market House is in a building has been a market at the corner of Youngs Ford and Righters Mill roads in Gladwyne since the early 1900s. It could be longer. I’m just not sure.
Delaware Market originally was a beloved small gourmet grocery with prepared food as well in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, that closed in September 2009. It was like the Instacart of its day because you could get groceries delivered. Now mind you, that was a paid privilege and the market waspricey, but the quality was amazing of pretty much everything.
I do not know or remember when they started doing more prepared foods because when we ever use the market, we didn’t use it for prepared foods per se.
I actually went to the Delaware Market House the day it closed and that was around 2009.
My photo
I still have my Delaware Market House bag from that last day they were open and the last chance to shop. It was a really nice store run by really nice people. At the time those owners were successor owners to the original owners who had sold it to them. It was reported back then that economic downturns made it too expensive for them to stay open.
My photo. Last day of Delaware Market House 2009
I never went back there after it closed as Delaware Market House, but it was resurrected thanks to a caring local resident. It then became the Gladwyne Market House or Gladwyne Market. So when it was resurrected at that point it became a slightly more modern iteration of what it had been. And there was catering and more prepared food, and it was still beloved by the community.
Well, we all recently learned if you ever follow things in Gladwyne that the market had its last day the other day forever.
Once again the property has been sold and the business closed.
From Facebook
According to a social media post I saw the new owners do not have a desire of just getting rid of the market building or the shops across the street which also sold from owners different than the market to these new people “RMR Property Holdings LLC.”
It seems that their goal is restoration, revitalization, and reimagining what could be. Again, saw it on a social media post.
But it sounds like it’s not an end per se in Gladwyne, but a new beginning. I am going sign off feeling hopeful.
It has taken 14 years as a survivor for me to realize the problem is not the fact that it’s October and it’s about breast cancer awareness, it’s still about all the pink crap that manufacturers shove at us saying it’ll do good. Yeah maybe for their profit margins, but not much else.
Year after year, I check into the minuscule proportions of profit that manufacturers who try to sell you pink crap during Pinktober actually donate.
Year after year, I can’t believe people haven’t seen through the various marketing schemes.
Breast cancer is neither pink or fluffy. I’m sure the pink color as identifier is because more often than not, it’s women who get breast cancer, however men also get breast cancer.
If you want to support breast cancer awareness, it’s not being done with a cheap pink bracelet. It’s being done with the brave women, many of whom you never know existed, who are just trying to live their best lives during an after breast cancer. It’s being done by the dedicated medical community and smaller nonprofits that want to educate and help people.
If you wish to support a nonprofit look for the local ones or the smaller ones in your community that actually help. One I think often of in particular, which is wonderful in the Philadelphia area is Unite for Her. I was introduced to them years ago by a woman who believes in what they do. They offer programming they get women together in fellowship. They offer practical information they offer support. I’m not necessarily talking about financial support. I’m talking about that friendly ear or programs that help.
This nonprofit was founded right in Chester County, Pennsylvania. they have wonderful programs and zoom calls that you can participate in and more.
And of course, another nonprofit also local to the greater Philadelphia region that I will always hold dear is breastcancer.org – this was founded by my radiation oncologist, Dr. Marisa Weiss.
The need for positive education on the topic of breast cancer or cancer at all never wanes. I realized that the other day when I was speaking with someone who has a newly diagnosed family member. It wasn’t that they were uneducated on the topic, it was about how people were behaving around them.
It’s funny it really annoyed the crap out of me to hear this, just like when I was newly diagnosed and there were people that had me 1 foot in the grave 14 years ago or we’re trying to sell me iodine cures, or other quack based treatment for breast cancer.
You get a breast cancer diagnosis and people are already planning your funeral and you really want look at them and try not to scream “get the F out of here !” (And in my opinion it’s quite all right to do that. It’s not their feelings that matter during this time it’s the feelings of the breast cancer patient.)
It’s that ignorance out there that makes me say every breast cancer awareness month hey it’s not pink. It’s not fluffy. It’s not about pink plastic crap, or some stupid bracelet that has the majority of profits going into the coffers of the manufacturer.
I think it is just as important for people without breast cancer to be educated on what it’s like to have it. I think it’s important for people to be educated on what actually helps.
And I think it’s important for the public in general to be educated about the pink plastic crap and dumb stuff that manufacturers put out during the month of October to say they support breast cancer awareness.
Today, 14 years later, because I’m a blogger that a lot of people don’t like even though they don’t actually know me I just have opinions different from theirs, I will sometimes get comments sent in that say things like “It’s a shame you didn’t die from breast cancer all those years ago.” To them I say, I hope you never actually get the disease or know someone you love who is affected by it.
Ignorance knows no bounds in this country and you know you almost sadly expect that from people today. It’s really terrible that that’s become the norm, but it doesn’t mean that it’s acceptable.
We live in a country that is such a hot mess right now, especially when it comes to healthcare and issues of women’s health in particular. Please don’t celebrate Pinktober with a piece of pink plastic crap. Get yourself educated on the topic and if you have a couple extra coins in your pocket, give to a nonprofit that you know will actually help breast cancer, patients and survivors. We donate to research that will keep cancer treatment going.
And if you have never experienced having breast cancer, don’t say to a breast cancer survivor or patient that you know how they feel. Trust me when I tell you that you do not. First of all, we feel so many things at any given time, and getting one of these diagnoses is a very personal thing so you can’t really get how that person feels because you’re not them.
I sign off stating once again I am one of the lucky ones. Please get yourself, educated on the topic, get mammograms, and genetic testing if you have cancer in your family.
