7 p.m. Monday at the Montgomery County Community College’s West Campus
“So what can Josh Shapiro, Bruce Castor and Leslie Richards do for us?” That IS the question posed by Evan Brandt today in the Digital Notebook: Dear Commissioners, Let’s Talk Price “Concentration...
View ArticlePottstown: A Model of Segregation and Discrimination
There are TWO Montgomery Counties on the list of the Wealthiest Counties in the U.S. Montgomery County, MD is #10 on the list Montgomery County, PA comes in at a respectable #51 The average median...
View ArticleBobbleheads, More Popular Than Ever…
There are a gazillion and one places on the net to purchase custom bobbleheads, created from a photo of yourself, a friend, family member or @@@@ your favorite Pottstown council person. As...
View ArticleExistential Propositions
“Some things just fall in your lap just when you need them” Mercury News 3/4/13 Who says Pottstown needs help with grants, promotion, and a wider audience? Apparently, that was the conclusion of the...
View ArticleAnd That’s No Yoke…
Yoke: the juncture where the taxpayers are stuck between a rock and a hard spot. Eleven weeks late but, no mention of the final cost to the taxpayers, Remington, Vernick and Beach Engineers...
View ArticlePottstown Boro Gov’t Celebrates Christmas in March !!!!
Pottstown Borough, March 14, 2013 In a Bold Break With Tradition, the Chief BM Mark Flanders and Borough Council Have Declared: “IT’S CHRISTMAS IN MARCH” …for himself, council and boro managers!!! A...
View ArticleBrian Patrick, Affinity Property Management, Let’s Talk Trash…
Friday, March 16th - Kristy forwarded the email conversations between her family (tenants) of 546 Beech St., Brian Patrick and Angela Bender-Lancaster, Administrative Assistant for Affinity. It...
View ArticleRound & Round We Go On The Carousel of Food Stamp Fraud…
55 High St., AGAIN an address at which the very same fraudulent activity was discovered in 2011. The owner of the bodega in 2011, was Rafi Alamgir. He was caught with $10,000+ in fraudulent food...
View ArticleMichelle Borzick Fry is Fired…
The news isn’t main stream yet but… Michelle Borzick Fry was let go from her job as Pottstown Zoning Work Leader, after a 9 week paid hiatus. It’s the least that could be expected. Still, it’s a...
View ArticleHail to the Chief…
Pottstown, April 4, 2013: The Mercury reports that the installation of Captain Drumheller Pottstown PD, as our new Chief is all but a done deal. Council will vote on Monday night 7PM Borough Hall...
View ArticlePottstown – Daddy’s Rollin’ In The Dough With Money to Spare…
Everybody’s been touting the “balanced budget” in Pottstown that was the legacy left to us by former borough manager, Jason Bobst, but for how long? At the rate the boys have been spending, it’s going...
View Article“Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency.” – Unknown
Is it just because its Springtime and people are outside more often? Or, is it something more ominous … as folks mumble beneath their breath, “these are the worst conditions I’ve ever seen...
View ArticleThe Tale of Two Pottstown Property Owners and A Failed System…
The first story is the plight of a family, Tammy and Phil, who carefully chronicled their experiences of the out-of-control renters that resided in the twin attached to their own home. In her own...
View ArticleLocal Government: The REAL Reason The Borough Is Called Potts-town..
It has been one heck of a poopy news week in Potts-town. Here’s a re-cap: Public barred from joint Pottstown, Pottsgrove sewer meeting Borough Manager, Mark Flanders told a reporter “adios amigo”, (in...
View ArticleAffinity/Brian and Lori Patrick Have VANISHED?
Above photo’s were taken on Oct. 1st and Oct. 8th, 2011 at 312 High St. A property managed by Affinity/Brian and Lori Patrick. May 2nd, Brian shares his thoughts about this post in an email to...
View ArticleXXX-Rated No Further Commentary…
*** This email was sent to Golden Cockroach’s attorney, Jordan Rushie, yesterday – May 1, 2013. Jordan, She has gone too far....
View ArticleBullshit Meter is Off the Dial….
They don’t even make a meter large enough to register the epic failure of the people that run the Pottstown government. ON THE HEELS OF THAT LAST POST ABOUT BRIAN PATRICK OF AFFINITY I HAVE TO ASK… how...
View ArticleBrian Patrick, Lori Patrick, Warren Patrick AFFINITY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
HEADQUARTERED IN POTTSTOWN, PA. Here is a consolidated sample of comments that have been posted beneath the numerous blog posts on the Golden Cockroach. Affinity Property Management – Pottstown, Pa....
View Article716 N. Adams Street: A Continuing, Sorry Pottstown Saga…
Bullshit Meter is Off the Dial… It remains a mystery to many of us who have witnessed the conditions in the rental house at 716 Adams St., that with exception of a return phone call, (4 days after...
View ArticleBrian Patrick – Affinity Property Management UPDATE:
I received this email from a property owner who contracted with Affinity. Like many of you, they have not received a dime of the deposit or rent money paid to Brian Patrick. They are very concerned...
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