Jenkintonians residing here since 2006 might have experienced a twinge of deja vu upon reading the latest email from Superintendent Jill Takacs. That year, the school district completed construction of “the link”, connecting the elementary and high schools, paying for it with debt that weighs on its budget today. While the facility provided improved working conditions for administrators, it improved nothing about educational outcomes for the children they teach. The […]
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What the audit tells us
We always come back to this transparency thing because it reminds us of Deborra Sines-Pancoe’s assertions that she’s working hard to make sure that your borough government is as transparent as possible. She’s said so on several occasions, usually as an attempt to defend herself right after she worked to keep something under wraps.
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Lateral damages
The town that works harder to attract visitors than it does to keep its own residents eventually loses both. We keep sending that memo to Jenkintown, and it stubbornly refuses to read it. This week, realtor Andrew Smith sent out a memo of his own that asks Council to reconsider a 2017 ordinance requiring inspection of sewer laterals before a property sale. Of all the claims made, the assertion that […]
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Escape from Jenkintown
One now-former resident tells his story and why he waited to get out before telling it. The hype that surrounds Jenkintown often describes it as a “A Big-Hearted, All-American Town“, and if you remove the politics or the insidious machinations of our public officials, and maybe it is. We settled here in 2002 and in 2015 made the mistake of looking under the municipal rocks. It wasn’t pretty. This reporter […]