For the first one, it is disaster. Take a look at all the children walking near Grandview that have been hit by cars piloted by IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS! Imagine what it would be like with IRRESPONSIBLE LAZY STUDENTS doing the driving.
For the second quote, he's right. We just need to get the NON-TRANSPARENT SCHEMERS out of office. He never put a time limit on it and who could have seen the self-irony in his statement. Maybe we can finally do it in 2011. THANK GOD! [Caps intended]
I mostly agree except the irresponsible parents and irresponsible lazy students characterizations.
That may be true some times but not others. When you put that many kids and cars into routes and intersections not designed for it and then don't do enough to address it, bad things can happen. And they have, kids have been hit and there have been many near misses.
You can't judge the character and circumstances of all drivers and kids like that with a broad brush . I mean, you can, but it's not right to.
perhaps you should go back to marlys who promised in a newspaper article to put new guards at both schools, did that happen? perhaps you should go back to paul deangelo who said for the last year+ that the traffic/safety signals are coming. But then again the paving project is "for the safety of the kids" Steve Worob
a water bottle a plastic fork a styrofoam plate a used diaper
Give up???
Answer: I cleaned them all up from in front of my house this weekend. Yes, even a used diaper (I guess since it was only wet and not, um, soiled, it was ok to drop in the gutter). I did not see who deposited these items, but all signs point to the little bulldogs (not all, just a callous few).
If there are any litterbugs reading this blog, please note that, while I am grateful for your donations, we are only able to accept cash at this time. Thanks
I wonder how many of these litterbugs are the same people who complain about their property values. a similar attitude is exemplified in this picture from the Roanoke Times in 2004. http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
I don't know why (Maybe I do) but this clipping always makes me think about some of my neighbors.
Repairs planned for "Trenton Makes" bridge support piers
Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 3:15 pm | Updated: 6:16 pm, Tue Aug 9, 2011. Steve Gengler / Staff Photographer | 0 comments The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission today announced that it has initiated work activities on a project that will repair some of the masonry piers that support the Lower Trenton (“Trenton Makes”) and Calhoun Street Toll-Supported Bridges and mitigate the erosion of river-bottom rocks and sediments around those structures.
Richie Webb, the Neshaminy school board president, hopefully knows that what I’m about to say is nothing personal. But we have a situation where the Neshaminy school board is getting editorial kudos for supposedly being tough with the local teachers union. I don’t see it that way. I see a board majority that doesn’t understand how to seriously deal with the union. I suppose it’s all relative. I mean, Neshaminy has been a train wreck for years in terms of previously done deals with the union. But such relativity doesn’t mean the current board’s strategy is right or even tough enough. Let’s compare Neshaminy (which arguably has a conservative board majority) to Pennsbury (which arguably doesn’t). Both school districts have expired union contracts. The Neshaminy school board has offered its teachers a pay raise which, all things included, amounts to an average 3 percent salary increase in each of three years. The Pennsbury board has offered its teachers a two-year pay freeze. No cost of living increases, no step increases, no educational attainment increases, nothing. Neshaminy’s union bosses have obtained strike authorization from the teachers. Pennsbury’s union bosses have not. Why would Neshaminy be closer to a strike than Pennsbury when on its face Pennsbury is offering its union a worse deal than Neshaminy? Who can explain this difference? Here’s my view. The board at Neshaminy isn’t that tough at all. I’d love to know how they think they can pay for an average 3 percent salary increase when the Act 1 index is likely to be around 1 percent this coming year. Why doesn’t the Neshaminy board just be upfront and say, “I know it looks like we’re being tough folks, compared to the basket cases who came before us, but we’ll still going to have to hack into educational programs to pay for what we’re proposing because state law doesn’t allow us to generate enough new tax dollars to pay for what we’re offering.” The board at Neshaminy is adopting what appears to be a “tough but nice” approach. Ask any member of the Neshaminy school board if they are “anti-union” and they’ll fumble around and issue some politically correct answer. The Neshaminy board is proposing, once again, to adopt a compulsory unionism contract. That’s where these supposedly tough board members are prepared to cut a deal that forces all non-union teachers (i.e., the good teachers who reject NFT) to pay union fees as a condition of their employment. And the board is further willing to sign off on the Maintenance of Membership provision that would prohibit Neshaminy’s teachers from freely resigning from the union whenever they like. The Neshaminy board is also willing to agree to collect NFT’s union dues through the payroll department at taxpayer expense. Under current state law the board does not have to agree to any of these union-pandering provisions. So why are they willing to sign off on them? Is it because (heaven forbid) some Neshaminy board members are scared of being labeled “anti-union”? Before anyone on the Neshaminy board gets bent out of shape and starts saying “Oh Simon, you’re just out there,” I would retort that I don’t see the Pennsbury community threatened by a possible strike. It’s all about strategy. My attitude is to mentally lace up a pair of jack boots when dealing with the teachers union while ensuring that public opinion is locked up. “Nice” does not work. Teacher unions get more militant when they see “nice.” The next time Pennsbury’s militants want to waste my time at a school board meeting I’ll just take my laptop to get some work done while ignoring them. And if the union doesn’t like my attitude they can put up or shut up. Let them run a candidate in a school board election to try and beat me. They can also quit and go get another job if they’d prefer that option. I represent the recession-hit taxpayers and parents who elected me. I don’t sign off on revolting un-American compulsory unionism contracts. Oh, and my constituents don’t have to deal with strike authorizations either.
2011-2012 BOARD MEETING DATES for Bucks County Tech school
All Board meetings are held at 7:30pm in the Board Room (K110) at Bucks County Technical High School.
•Monday, August 22, 2011 •Monday, September 26, 2011 •Monday, October 24, 2011 •Monday, November 28, 2011 •Tuesday, December 20, 2011 •Monday, January 23, 2012 (meeting in Main Office area) •Monday, February 27, 2012 •Monday, March 26, 2012 •Monday, April 23, 2012 •Tuesday, May 15, 2012 •Monday, June 25, 2012
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August 2007:
“It spells disaster,” Councilman Stephen Worob said of having young schoolchildren walking and teenage students driving to the same school.
“The days of non-transparency on this board and secret scheming meetings is about to come to an end.”
Steve Worob - March 2007 Board Meeting
He's the shoo-in.
Morrisville reeeeeeeeally knows how to pick 'em.
If you think about it, he's completely right.
For the first one, it is disaster. Take a look at all the children walking near Grandview that have been hit by cars piloted by IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS! Imagine what it would be like with IRRESPONSIBLE LAZY STUDENTS doing the driving.
For the second quote, he's right. We just need to get the NON-TRANSPARENT SCHEMERS out of office. He never put a time limit on it and who could have seen the self-irony in his statement. Maybe we can finally do it in 2011. THANK GOD! [Caps intended]
I mostly agree except the irresponsible parents and irresponsible lazy students characterizations.
That may be true some times but not others. When you put that many kids and cars into routes and intersections not designed for it and then don't do enough to address it, bad things can happen. And they have, kids have been hit and there have been many near misses.
You can't judge the character and circumstances of all drivers and kids like that with a broad brush . I mean, you can, but it's not right to.
perhaps you should go back to marlys who promised in a newspaper article to put new guards at both schools, did that happen?
perhaps you should go back to paul deangelo who said for the last year+ that the traffic/safety signals are coming.
But then again the paving project is "for the safety of the kids" Steve Worob
Riddle: what do the following have in common?
a water bottle
a plastic fork
a styrofoam plate
a used diaper
Give up???
Answer: I cleaned them all up from in front of my house this weekend. Yes, even a used diaper (I guess since it was only wet and not, um, soiled, it was ok to drop in the gutter). I did not see who deposited these items, but all signs point to the little bulldogs (not all, just a callous few).
If there are any litterbugs reading this blog, please note that, while I am grateful for your donations, we are only able to accept cash at this time. Thanks
not nice Pete, not nice. Hope it improves. I know there are many litter bugs in front of the high school as well.
I wonder how many of these litterbugs are the same people who complain about their property values. a similar attitude is exemplified in this picture from the Roanoke Times in 2004. http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/pregnant.asp
I don't know why (Maybe I do) but this clipping always makes me think about some of my neighbors.
Repairs planned for "Trenton Makes" bridge support piers
Posted: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 3:15 pm | Updated: 6:16 pm, Tue Aug 9, 2011.
Steve Gengler / Staff Photographer | 0 comments
The Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission today announced that it has initiated work activities on a project that will repair some of the masonry piers that support the Lower Trenton (“Trenton Makes”) and Calhoun Street Toll-Supported Bridges and mitigate the erosion of river-bottom rocks and sediments around those structures.
SIMON CAMPBELL BCCT article today
Richie Webb, the Neshaminy school board president, hopefully knows that what I’m about to say is nothing personal. But we have a situation where the Neshaminy school board is getting editorial kudos for supposedly being tough with the local teachers union. I don’t see it that way. I see a board majority that doesn’t understand how to seriously deal with the union.
I suppose it’s all relative. I mean, Neshaminy has been a train wreck for years in terms of previously done deals with the union. But such relativity doesn’t mean the current board’s strategy is right or even tough enough. Let’s compare Neshaminy (which arguably has a conservative board majority) to Pennsbury (which arguably doesn’t).
Both school districts have expired union contracts. The Neshaminy school board has offered its teachers a pay raise which, all things included, amounts to an average 3 percent salary increase in each of three years. The Pennsbury board has offered its teachers a two-year pay freeze. No cost of living increases, no step increases, no educational attainment increases, nothing. Neshaminy’s union bosses have obtained strike authorization from the teachers. Pennsbury’s union bosses have not. Why would Neshaminy be closer to a strike than Pennsbury when on its face Pennsbury is offering its union a worse deal than Neshaminy? Who can explain this difference?
Here’s my view. The board at Neshaminy isn’t that tough at all. I’d love to know how they think they can pay for an average 3 percent salary increase when the Act 1 index is likely to be around 1 percent this coming year. Why doesn’t the Neshaminy board just be upfront and say, “I know it looks like we’re being tough folks, compared to the basket cases who came before us, but we’ll still going to have to hack into educational programs to pay for what we’re proposing because state law doesn’t allow us to generate enough new tax dollars to pay for what we’re offering.”
The board at Neshaminy is adopting what appears to be a “tough but nice” approach. Ask any member of the Neshaminy school board if they are “anti-union” and they’ll fumble around and issue some politically correct answer. The Neshaminy board is proposing, once again, to adopt a compulsory unionism contract. That’s where these supposedly tough board members are prepared to cut a deal that forces all non-union teachers (i.e., the good teachers who reject NFT) to pay union fees as a condition of their employment. And the board is further willing to sign off on the Maintenance of Membership provision that would prohibit Neshaminy’s teachers from freely resigning from the union whenever they like. The Neshaminy board is also willing to agree to collect NFT’s union dues through the payroll department at taxpayer expense. Under current state law the board does not have to agree to any of these union-pandering provisions.
So why are they willing to sign off on them? Is it because (heaven forbid) some Neshaminy board members are scared of being labeled “anti-union”?
Before anyone on the Neshaminy board gets bent out of shape and starts saying “Oh Simon, you’re just out there,” I would retort that I don’t see the Pennsbury community threatened by a possible strike. It’s all about strategy. My attitude is to mentally lace up a pair of jack boots when dealing with the teachers union while ensuring that public opinion is locked up.
“Nice” does not work.
Teacher unions get more militant when they see “nice.” The next time Pennsbury’s militants want to waste my time at a school board meeting I’ll just take my laptop to get some work done while ignoring them. And if the union doesn’t like my attitude they can put up or shut up. Let them run a candidate in a school board election to try and beat me. They can also quit and go get another job if they’d prefer that option.
I represent the recession-hit taxpayers and parents who elected me. I don’t sign off on revolting un-American compulsory unionism contracts. Oh, and my constituents don’t have to deal with strike authorizations either.
did morrisville teachers agree to a 2% pay decrease?
2011-2012 BOARD MEETING DATES for Bucks County Tech school
All Board meetings are held at 7:30pm in the Board Room (K110) at Bucks County Technical High School.
•Monday, August 22, 2011
•Monday, September 26, 2011
•Monday, October 24, 2011
•Monday, November 28, 2011
•Tuesday, December 20, 2011
•Monday, January 23, 2012 (meeting in Main Office area)
•Monday, February 27, 2012
•Monday, March 26, 2012
•Monday, April 23, 2012
•Tuesday, May 15, 2012
•Monday, June 25, 2012
Who peed in Simon's cheerios again?
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