Springfield School Master Plan Meeting Tonight

A report on what happened at the meeting can be found here.

The first Town Hall Community Meeting to discuss the Master Plan for Springfield High Schooll is 7 tonight,  Oct. 16, in the Springfield High School Auditorium at the school, 49 W. Leamy Ave., Springfield Pa. 19046.

The cost of the project is an estimated $150 million.

The meeting will start with a presentation of the overall plan and options, followed by a question and answer period.
It will be broadcast live on SETV which is Ch. 11 Comcast or Ch. 29 Fios.

This is the first of six planned Town Hall meetings. A schedule can be found here.

 

Springfield School Master Plan Meeting Tonight

 

Springfield School Master Plan Meeting Tonight

Hat tip Regina Scheerer

James Merkins Fills Scanlon Judge Seat

Congratulations to James Merkins who has been picked to fill the remaining time on the Magisterial District Court Seat that was vacated by Anthony Scanlon when he was appointed to Delaware County (Pa) Common Pleas Court in June.

Merkins will run for a full-term for District Court 32-2-54 in 2015. The court serves the  1st, 5th and 6th wards of Springfield along with the 1st and 3rd precincts of the 2nd Ward.

In other matters, the initial forecast is that Springfield is not getting a municipal tax hike this year, and County Council Chairman Tom McGarrigle is developing an Ebola response policy for the county, which after all is home to one of the world’s major international airports.

 

James Merkins Fills Scanlon Judge Seat

 

James Merkins Fills Scanlon Judge Seat

 

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-15-14

Ten percent of U.S. research and development money is spent in New Jersey. Mostly in hi-tech Essex County. That’s where Thomas Edison lived.

At least that was the case in 1987.

Ebola Equality Political Correctness

Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden                            Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden

Ebola fear is spreading, a contingency the Obama administration should have been preparing for in August if not earlier.

The big reason for the unease is leadership. Obama said it was unlikely to get here and, well, here it  is.

He apparently thought he was dealing with the  j.v. team of contagious disease.

Thomas Frieden, who directs our Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the man who Obama tapped to deal with matters like this.

As we should have expected, Frieden was not picked  for his skill in dealing with a crisis but for his fidelity to the poison of political correctness.

He was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene when called to federal service and was best known for distributing condoms to gays and banning trans-fat from New York restaurants.

His brother Jeffrey is  the Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard and critic of free markets.

It’s no wonder why Frieden is fighting quarantines for travelers from West Africa. Equality means Ebola equality as well, after all.

And it’s no wonder  that now Frieden has been compelled to act he is proposing plans that are scaring the pants off of rubber-meets-the-road health workers.

And it’s no wonder that he is giving  blame-ridden explanations without checking the facts i.e. there was no protocol to breach concerning the contagions of those who treated the late Liberian visitor Thomas Duncan.

When your skill set is political pandering that is the thing you do.

The tragedy is that Ebola doesn’t have to be scary, or anywhere near as scary anyway.

The evil, greedy Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. stopped Ebola cold at its 80,000 person rubber plantation in the middle of the Liberian hot zone, it seems and just using common sense and materials at hand.

But then those evil greedy corporate types appear to have treated the issue as crisis and not as an excuse for political posturing and laughable orchestrated photo ops.

Ebola Equality Political Correctness Thomas Frieden

 

 

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29Margaret Lawrence being interview, Oct. 15, for the Fox29 feature on the Delco Vet Memorial in Newtown Square

The Delco Vet Memorial will be highlighted on the Oct. 27 edition of Fox29’s Good Day Philadelphia with weather anchor Sue Serio doing her feed from the site on West Chester Pike in Newtown Square if we understand the plan correctly.

Delaware County veterans Bob Dimond of Media, Springfield Police Chief Joe Daly and  Margaret Lawrence of Springfield whose quotes can be found on the memorials pillars will be featured.

Kudos to Barbara Ann Zippi and Linda Houldin for setting things up.

Delco Vet Memorial Honored By Fox29

 

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

HB 2471, which prohibits insurance companies from placing oral anticancer medications on a specialty tier, was passed by the Pennsylvania House, Oct 6, says State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

He says the bill also prohibits charging a co-insurance payment for the medication.

The vote was 195-1 with John D McGinnis (R-79) being the dissenter.

The bill is now before the Senate.

“With more than 80,000 Pennsylvanians estimated to be diagnosed with cancer this year, this legislation would have a tremendous impact on the lives of many Commonwealth residents” said  Cox.  “As it currently stands, intravenous anticancer medications are typically covered under a health plan’s medical benefit, often only requiring patients to pay a minimal fixed co-payment; however, orally administered anticancer medications are covered under a health plan’s pharmacy benefit and require patients to pay a percentage of the total cost of the drug, generally between 25 percent and 30 percent. This significantly increases the out-of-pocket costs to obtain treatment for patients.”

 

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

Oral Anticancer Med Payments Addressed By HB 2471

William Lawrence Sr Omnibit 10-14-14

Emails are most likely to be read on Saturdays and between 8 p.m. and midnight.

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

A bill that would require credit report security freezes to stay until their removal is specifically requested by their subjects is before the Pennsylvania Senate, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129)

A security freeze prohibits a credit reporting agency from releasing the consumer’s credit information to certain third parties. They automatically expire after seven years.

The bill, House Bill 1982, was unanimously passed by the State House on Oct. 7.

The prime sponsor is State Rep. Stephen Barrar (R-160)

 

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

HB 1982 Makes Credit Security Freezes Permanent

 

Airbnb End Of Hotels?

Airbnb, a digital marketplace enabling travelers to rent and share private accommodations, is taking business travel spending according to eMarketer.com
eMarketer  notes that the service is popular with the young and has made an impact in the hotel business. It speculates that once Millennials enter the business world they are going to take the habit with them.
We’re not so sure. Hey kids, two words: expense accounts.
Airbnb End Of Hotels
Airbnb End Of Hotels

Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533

Murderer Mumia Abu Jamal’s Oct. 5 recorded commencement address for the Vermont Campus of Goddard College has inspired legislation in Pennsylvania to address revictimization.

House Bill 2533 passed the  House Judiciary Committee, Oct. 8, and is expected to come before the full house this week, according to State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

Ahhh but what will happen if it should reach the Senate, hmmm Senator Pileggi?

HB 2533 says In addition to any other right of action and any other remedy provided by law, a victim of a personal injury crime may bring a civil action against an offender in any court of competent jurisdiction to obtain injunctive and other appropriate relief, including reasonable attorney fees and other costs associated with the litigation, for conduct which perpetuates the continuing effect of the crime on the victim. 

Jamal is a convicted murderer who barely escaped the execution gurney and is serving a life sentence for taking the life of an innocent man, whom he has been slandering ever since. And before you start screaming in defense of Jamal’s First Amendment rights ask if he should have Second Amendment rights as well. How about the Fourth Amendment? You think the guards should need a warrant to search his cell?

Jamal can’t even order out for a pizza. He can’t even choose what clothes to wear.

He should be grateful for just being allowed to breathe.

Danny and Maureen Faulkner Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533

Danny and Maureen Faulkner at their wedding in 1979. Faulkner was the Philadelphia policeman murdered by Mumia Abu Jamal in 1981, who Jamal has been slandering unrepentantly since. Mr. Faulkner was 25.

Mumia Speech Inspires HB 2533