As a 23-year resident of Upper Dublin, I have often marveled at how often I observe a police SUV in town. Having lived in the police state of China as a journalist in the '90s, it strikes me that police are more of a visible presence in this peaceful town than they ever were where I lived in…

The 2020 Upper Dublin Medals program was a show stopper! An estimated 170 viewers tuned in to enjoy the virtual celebration of this 36th annual prestigious and unique program, prudently taped prior to the big reveal on June 14.

I was astonished to read the letter from a church pastor which said in part, "we cannot afford another four years of Donald Trump nor his Republican lawmakers." I was astonished, because as a clergyman myself, I am at pains to avoid taking political stances in public.

What happened 100 and 90 years ago has an eerie resemblance to today with many out of work and  jobs not returning along with the coronavirus, not unlike the 1918 Flu and Depression of the 1930's. The "New Green Deal"with the energy coming from AOC and youthful voices and the views of many o…

As Bucks and Montgomery counties gradually reopen, a key concern must be addressed: Is the workplace safe so returning employees and others aren’t exposed to COVID-19? Critical employers ensure the work site is safe, but what should be done before anyone punches the time clock again?

Let’s take a look at something other than COVID-19, like this: “How do Bucks and Montgomery County high schools rank among 754 others in Pennsylvania?" Quite well, according to a “comprehensive, data-based” look by a well-regarded examination team. In fact, area schools make up 22 percent of…

We at the League of Women Voters are very disappointed that our annual voter registration efforts were cut short, along with the myriad of other local events and activities, in response to state-wide efforts to control the spread of the Covid19 virus. However, it is more important than ever …

Need a break from the “fear and uncertainty” of COVID-19? I’m sure you do. And so, too, do the youngsters linked to an Ambler nonprofit group now offering help with programs like a virtual 5k run.

On Halloween night of 2019 an Ambler family experienced a catastrophic event when their house was torn apart by a fallen tree. One person was seriously injured and the other occupants, while not suffering serious physical injury, were substantially shaken by the occurrence. The house was dec…

Lest Jerry Shenk's circumlocution (Prospective please, 4/5/20) cause some of your readers to forget, budgets and expenditures for emergency medical personal protective equipment (PPE) is the president's only to propose: the legislation which sets expenditures has been the responsiblity of th…

With budget season underway in Harrisburg, many departments, agencies, and interest groups are competing for the Commonwealth’s finite resources. One line-item in the budget that I follow closely each year, is the very nominal appropriation the Commonwealth puts toward Tourette’s Syndrome. I…

Montgomery County, like the rest of the country, is in crisis mode. In this unprecedented era, millions of students are at home when they should be in school learning. We appreciate the efforts of local school district leaders to ensure that our students don’t go hungry while they are out of…

I am a resident physician seeing firsthand the consequences of the Trump Administration's poor response to the COVID19 outbreak. I work in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, where critical chest X-rays and chest CT scans are being performed.

As the coronavirus saga continues to unravel in Bucks and Montgomery counties, so, too, do the effects of the crisis, from a special shopping hour for seniors, to jobs on hold like 28,000 Bucks hospitality jobs and increased cases including local COVID-19 deaths.

The past few weeks have been an especially uncertain and difficult time for us all. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we approach our work, relationships, and habits. During a time that we are all encouraged to practice social distancing, we have seen tremendous evidence of community…

What began as a delightful day for dozens of children at Children of America childcare in Southampton unexpectedly became a horrendous terror one quiet afternoon. It was Thursday, Feb. 27. About 1:30 p.m. Some 79 kids were in the building, 14 of the younger ones napping in a front room when …

With the outbreak of COVID-19 and the recent declaration that we are now entering a national State of Emergency that is hitting Montgomery County particularly hard, these are uncertain times for all of us. However, for the estimated 170,000 Pennsylvania working families who live in poverty, …

I attended the meeting of the Upper Dublin Committee on Planning, Parks and Library on February 25 and was glad that vehicle access to the new library was addressed by the township's traffic engineer. One of his suggestions was to restrict access to the new library from Highland Avenue as fo…

A unique romantic relationship in the Underground Railroad icon Harriet Tubman’s life was her second marriage to an African-American soldier, Nelson Davis, said to be about half her age and whose regiment hailed from a nearby Civil War training camp.

Fourteen months ago, I was afforded the opportunity to serve the community my grandfather did 80 years ago and my mother did 39 years ago.

The Artworks Collective of Ambler, an organization composed of approximately 30 local artists, has taken on the project of creating a statue in remembrance of Mary Ambler, and has brought this idea to the attention of the Ambler Borough Council. After meetings with the council, a move is now…

A recent letter to the editor took exception with Lowman Henry writing “It is important to remember that communism and socialism are two sides of the same coin.”

Thank you very to Rep. Thomas Murt who recently assisted me with a very complicated issue and he did so personally and didn’t push it off on his staff. I am grateful that one of our elected officials in the state took the time to both listen to my concerns and then personally follow-up and g…

A crime-fighting program begun last fall in Ambler -- it’s one that figures the criminal element is camera-shy -- is off to a... well, let’s call it a blurry start.

Major League Baseball has apparently decided that there are 42 too many minor league baseball cities and, according to Commissioner Rob Manfred, after the 2020 season, that will change. There will be a new agreement between the majors and the minors signed and a lot of cities will lose their…

When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday, Oct. 27, 1963, preached from the pulpit of the Salem Baptist Church, formerly of Jenkintown, just five years before his assassination on April 4, 1968, the civil rights’ icon bellowed three evocative words — “all,” “here,” and “now” — that…

Steve Bloom's knee-jerk conservative tax cut reflex -- offered as his solution to the exit of youth from Pennsylvania (Brain Drain, 12/22) -- is both badly based financially, and off-base in its diagnosis of youth emigration.

Details of Sunday hunting and other regulations will concern people as long as hunting is lawful, but it behooves us to understand the big-picture context in which human beings hunt other animals with manufactured weapons (“Allowing a Bit of Sunday Hunting Enough for Now,” November 10, 2019).

t is with a heavy heart that I pen these words, for there is so much hate in this country. As an African American, I grieve with my Jewish brothers and sisters for the awful, ungodly attacks against the Jewish community. The stabbing a few weeks ago at a Rabbi’s home during a Hanukkah party …

Although many people dislike this word, there is no other way to describe the Upper Dublin Township Board of Commissioners and the township manager, but I'll just call them totally fiscally irresponsible. They have taken over 100 acres of green space, that cost the township nothing to mainta…

The time to act on the climate crisis is not in 20 or 30 years, it is now. The science is clear that as carbon dioxide levels increase in our atmosphere and oceans as a result of burning buried fossil fuels we are gambling with the stability of the only world we have. The planet is warming, …

Lowman Henry's declaration (Times-Chronicle, 12/15) that the current process of redistricting of legislative and congressional district boundaries is already perfect -- and that changes now being contemplated to that process, for the next round of redistricting after the decennial 2020 censu…

I read with great interest the column by Sally Pipes in which she panned the concept of single payer healthcare. I share many of her concerns but as a physician who has worked and continues to work in the trenches of health care and has Master’s degree in Healthcare Quality and Patient Safet…