Letter: Responding to comments

To The Editor, I have reviewed numerous replies to submissions I have made to The Times. I believe that I must respond to some of the comments. First my family and I moved into Pocopson Township in 1957. I have lived here ever since. My education consisted of two years of parochial school in Wilmington, followed by four years in the Unionville School (it was a 1-12 facility at the time), followed by...

Letters to the editor and the greater conversation

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times We get letters and then sometimes, we get letters. Some praise the acts of others (once in a while, even us), some take various public and elected officials to task (including us). All of them have one thing in common: they represent the opinion of our readers (you’ll note by looking just above the headline, on this column, the word ‘opinion,’ denoting...

Letter: Substantial savings by outsourcing Unionville busing

To The Editor: TAS (Transportation Advisory Services) determined that there are substantial savings possible if we choose to outsource transportation. This is because we now pay well above market total compensation in using District employees to provide non-teaching services. Because all our employees are subject to PSERS we are forced to pay for extremely expensive pensions that private sector businesses...

Sen. Pileggi plays while PA pays

To the Editor: State Senator Pileggi accepted a trip to the Super Bowl from the Pittsburgh Steelers organization – airfare and lodging included. It must be nice – as many Pennsylvanians are struggling to find work and to put food on the table. The Senator’s District encompasses the built-out suburbs of Delaware County (Chester, Marcus Hook, etc…) along with rural Southern...