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Your VOTE Counts – May 21st Pottstown Primaries…
“There’s a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.” Sean Penn From Pay-to-Play politics, (google Remington, Vernick & Beach), which I have...
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Spread Your Wings and Fly !!!
VOTE BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE. “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs...
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Dear Rental Owner, You’ve Just Been Screwed…
The Following Email was forwarded to the Cockroach from a property owner who was under contract for management services with Affinity Property Management/Brian Patrick: Affinity Property Management has...
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Slumlords Christopher & Jennifer Levy 5 W. Fourth St.
5 W. Fourth St. is located in Ward 3 – Jeff Chomnuck – Vice President of Council. 42 E. Fourth St. 484-524-5526 If diminished property values, crime and blight are of concern to you – let Jeff know....
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Neglect Comes With a Big Price Tag…
The Memorial Day fire in Pottstown at 377 N. Charlotte St. displaced a family of five living in one side of the double and a family of six, headed up by a Section 8 matriarch… Tracey Accor, (where the...
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How do we gauge “progress” without a vision, a plan and a process…
Wednesday nights’ Committee of the Whole council meeting was jam packed with action. A joyful event kicked off the evening with promotions for three members of the Pottstown Police Dept....
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Progress Pottstown Opposing Low-Income Tax Credit Development..
Over the past few days a group of concerned citizens has rallied to introduce a petition to encourage the Pennsylvania Finance Housing Agency to deny tax credits to Syracuse, N.Y. based, low-income...
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Section 8 and Crime: The Unacknowledged Darkness…
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010 police from other boroughs work with P.town police to gain control of a violent gang of tenants on Washington St. Take the ‘Norris’ off the town, add ‘Potts’ and Part One, in a...
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SUPER SIZE ME…
The Suburbs: Pottstown is worried over tax-credit developer who answers few questions Taxpayers of Pottstown who have formed Progress Pottstown to oppose low-income development in our borough, were...
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A Differing Point of View on Housing Visions…
Yesterday, a local homeowner and someone I consider a friend, (who is also dedicated and works to make positive change in Pottstown), reached out to share his perspective on the proposed Housing...
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Complaints Against Affinity Property Management…
BBB Customer Complaint Summary 27 Complaints since 2010 In an email yesterday, yet another victim of Affinity/Brian Patrick said she contacted the State’s Attorney General’s office: “I called the...
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“Good Landlord” Incentives Work…
My fellow blogger, RoysRants, put up a piece today about Conshohockens new Residential Rental Ordinance. Times Herald reports that officials unanimously approved the ordinance over objections from the...
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It’s Raining Little Drug Baggies …
In Pottstown this summer. AND now it’s raining bullets too…9Pm Tuesday, June 26th corner of Beech and Washington Sts. while only blocks away, members of the community, the boro, the SD, and Hill School...
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There Are Two Types of Income Investors…
TONIGHT!! TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH at the Rickett’s Center !! 7Pm 640 Beech St. See Digital Notebook for details: Core Community Clean-up Planning Meeting Set for Tuesday ** Allen Davidheiser said he...
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Is Pottstown the Next Camden, N.J. ???
The tension in the core, downtown neighborhoods has been palpable since the first snowdrop of Spring. I’ve spoken of it elsewhere on this blog. We live here, we feel it, we know when things are...
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Some Things Are Just Meant to Be…
And suddenly, I am reminded why I love Pottstown and why I believe we can move it forward, together. A good, true, heart-warming story. If you’ve had, (or have), a parent or someone close to you who is...
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A Balanced Approach to Housing and Revitalization…
Here’s the situation. I was contacted last week by a family in Pottstown that I worked with last summer to help them get out of a bed bug infested apartment where the property owner was not interested...
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Because We’re Good Enough, Smart Enough & doggone it…
Your daily affirmation from Stuart Smalley: The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. Maureen Dowd People in Pottstown are fond of ruminating about the...
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A Look At The Relationship Between Neglected Rentals and Crime in Pottstown
The week in review: Beginning late 2011 neighbors in the 400 block of Cherry St. contacted me on Facebook to ask if I understood why the Police Dept. doesn’t make timely reports to the Mercury news...
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Crime in Pottstown…
There’s some new Watchdogs in town. Sometime over the past week, or so, a Facebook Page cropped up called: CRIME IN POTTSTOWN. Contributions and comments are coming in from everywhere from everyday...
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