The budget also draws down the county’s rainy day fund to its lowest level in years.
By Todd Shepherd
Upper Darby income tax, speech limits, and ARPA reversal fail in court
A Delaware County court recently killed Upper Darby’s new income tax and restrictive public forum rules as well as a policy to effectively defund a youth arts center. The rulings not only quash fiscal policies expounded by Mayor Ed Brown (D) and his allies on Township Council but rebuke the […]
Courts reject Chesco treasurer as expert medical witness, but don’t catch that her degrees are from diploma mill
The Chester County treasurer’s side gig of working as an expert witness in civil trials has been dealt substantial blows in the last three years, as her testimony has been excluded from two trials in which she was presumably paid by the plaintiffs to provide expert medical testimony. In at […]
Delaware County facing $76 million budget deficit — 28 percent tax increase proposed
The taxes would replace temporary federal funds that were used to pay for permanent spending increases.
By Todd Shepherd
Outraged Bucks residents want Ellis-Marseglia and Harvie gone
Citizens protested the Democrats’ refusal to follow state Supreme Court rulings on vote-counting.
By Bradley Vasoli
Activists’ ballot-application challenges fall apart
Local activists’ challenges to hundreds of mail-in ballot applications across the Philadelphia suburbs ended last week without having a single challenge upheld. Last month, challengers alleged 212 applications in Chester County, 319 in Montgomery County, 191 in Bucks County, and 143 in Delaware County came from voters who either moved […]
Kyle Sammin: Democracy dies in daylight as Democrats break the law to help Casey
The Washington Post has been telling us for eight years now that Democracy Dies in Darkness. Anyone who watched the proceedings in Bucks County this week knows that’s not true. It dies in broad daylight. As we all know by now, Republican Dave McCormick came out on top in the […]
Vince Fenerty: Republican gains in Philadelphia helped carry the party to statewide victories
Philadelphia’s Republican Party has put in the hard work to register voters, recruit quality candidates, and meet people in their neighborhoods to discuss issues and put forth our ideas. The results of that work were clear on Election Day, and I believe we will continue this positive trend. This is […]
Heather Shayne Blakeslee: I don’t know if I belong to a political party anymore. So I’m throwing a party instead.
“We don’t care who you voted for, just bring a dish to the potluck.” I’ve uttered that phrase hundreds of times to my neighbors in South Philadelphia the last three weeks as I passed out postcards to invite them to a Unity Picnic and concert at Old Swedes’ Episcopal Church […]
Beth Ann Rosica: CHOP’s key board members refuse to answer questions about sex reassignment surgeries
Last month, I reported about Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) refusal to provide information or answer questions about gender reassignment surgeries performed on children and the prescribing of puberty blockers and sex hormones for children. Despite over ten requests for comment to CHOP and their Gender and Sexuality Clinic, the […]