A sneak peek at Santa’s list for Unionville
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
It’s the time of the year for wish lists and as we close in on Christmas — I thought I’d offer a few peeks in what I suspect might be on some local school and elected officials lists for Santa Claus.
For our local elected state legislators: Chris Ross (R-East Marlborough), Steve Barrar (R-Upper Chichester) and Sen. Dominic Pileggi (R-Chester): the wisdom...
Commentary: Politics trumps common sense in open space cuts
County commissioners finesse budget when bolder moves are needed; choices will lead to higher school, local taxes, more sprawl later on
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Slashing open space spending was a gift only the Grinch and the Chester County Commissioners would see as a good move.
The good news, I suppose is that Chester County seems to have pulled a rabbit from a hat and now suddenly...
Sorting opinion from fact on Unionville outsourcing
Price’s outburst underscores why outsourcing process must be fact-based, not opinion driven
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Outsourcing school services, such as busing, will be a difficult decision for Unionville.
EAST MARLBOROUGH — It was hard not to feel bad while watching it.
Dr. Paul Price’s diatribe Monday suggesting that the request for proposal to evaluate outsourcing...
Unionville: so many reasons to give thanks
Thanksgiving thoughts focus on the people that make this community special
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
It’s hard not to live and work in Unionville and be thankful for so many things. It’s not that we are better, but maybe that we have it better and seem to realize it and do the little things that make this a special community.
With that thought, I decided to list in no special...
Unionville bus drivers ask questions about outsourcing
To the Editor:
In September, the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District Board of Directors agreed to initiate a study to determine the feasibility of outsourcing student transportation services now performed by district employees with district-owned vehicles. The Board’s goal is to complete this study by February, 2011.
As employees of the Transportation Department of the UCFSD, we have a vested...
Finding the middle ground: making gray the new black
Black and white mentality needs to give way to compromise, consensus
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
I was driving down Route 52 the other day and a passel of abandoned campaign signs prompted me to start thinking about what, if any, conclusions, one should draw from the recent election results and how it applies to life around here.
Yes, it’s obvious that people are angry, frustrated...
‘Pouty’ Dems kill pension reform bill
Commentary: Unionville, school districts across state suffer because Democratic house leaders refuse to vote
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
Talk about validating the voter’s choice.
Just three days after losing control of the state House of Representatives, Democratic leaders Keith McCall and Todd Eachus announced that the house would not take up the state teacher pension reform bill...
Election 2010: McGann’s fearless predictions
Democrats: break out those hankies, it’s going to be a long night
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
At first, I thought it would be a bad idea to write this column. Journalist that I am, I was honestly worried about, somehow, impacting the vote Tuesday. Then I thought about for a while and realized I was writing for Unionville, where the vast majority of people will know exactly who...
An early morning donut and a thousand reasons to hope
Reminders of why we need to look past the headlines and remember our shared community
By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTimes.com
POCOPSON — It’s easy to lose perspective, just from reading the headlines. Whether it’s home foreclosures, the nasty infighting in the political arena or even some of the thorny issues confronting this community in terms of the school district, one could think that...
Cheering for all the right reasons at Pocopson