City of Coatesville’s snow removal was done by private contractors.

Several Coatesville homeowners cleared their streets with snow blowers

The City of Coatesville has no operating trucks that can mount a snow plow. The City of Coatesville is paying private contractors for snow removal.

And this is the first snowstorm this winter.

Watch your tax increase piled up in snow:

From talking to people it seems that most people don't know Don Wilkinson no longer works for the City of Coatesville.

I wonder if the cost of paying private contractors for snow removal exceeds the salary and benefits of former Public Works Director Don Wilkinson?

Former City of Coatesville Director of Public Works Don Wilkinson retired "under duress". He allegedly dared to "talk back to Coatesville City Council President Linda Lavender Norris". 

SEE:

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2016

Will Coatesville City Council President Linda Lavender Norris drive a snowplow?

I guess that thing about being "from Coatesville" is selectively applied by the Coatesville City Council. 

Donald E. Wilkinson 1965 Football

   As an athlete, as a student and as a school citizen, Don Wilkinson left quite a legacy in Coatesville. Now, nearly 40 years later, he continues to give something back to the community. It he calls "home." 

   Don was a three sport athlete, participating in football, wrestling and baseball. It was on the football field he excelled. He played both wide receiver and safety and was named to the all Ches-Mont second-team in his junior year. 

   As a senior, Don's baseball skills at first base were recognized with a selection the First Team All Ches-Mont squad. He continued to improve in football and was named to the First-Team All Ches-Mont team in both offense and defense. He was the recipient of the order of the Purple Heart, which signified him to be most outstanding Football Player in the Ches-Mont League. 

During that season, the Red Raiders were the Ches-Mont Champions and Don was a co-captain of the team.  

  At West Chester University Don was named to the first-team all-conference team for three years. He also earned Honorable Mention for Small College All-American for three years as well. He was named best player of the week in the State Conference four times and broke his own record for pass receptions in the tangerine bowl (11) in 1967. "Wilkie" was listed in Who's Who for athletes in Colleges and University, and Who's Who for students in Colleges and University.  

  Don played semi professional football for Pottstown Firebirds for four years when they captured the Atlantic Coast Football League Championship.  

  Don taught and coached in the Coatesville area schools for 20 years. He is currently the director of public works/recreation for the city of Coatesville. 

FROM:
Coatesville High School Athletic Hall of Fame

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Road crews deserve heaps of praise
Lack of plowing angers many in Coatesville

By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times

Will Coatesville City Council President Linda Lavender Norris drive a snowplow?

We lost Don Wilkinson as the head of the City of Coatesville Public Works.

The City of Coatesville has already canned or forced out City Manager Kerby Hudson, Public Works Director Don Wilkinson and Codes Officer Damalier Molina. All three had major shouting match disagreements with City Council President Linda Lavender Norris. 

I believe Linda Lavender Norris is prone to outbreaks of narcissistic rage.

Linda has allegedly irrupted several times in public at least one time shouting "Fuck you" to Ed Simpson at a public meeting. Ask a DLN reporter. 

Anyway a big snowstorm is coming. 

I think it will not go well for Coatesville residents and businesses with Linda Lavender Norris allegedly micro-managing the Public Works Department. 

Deep snow affects residents and all business, legal and street slingers, so Linda Lavender Norris's constituency might be pissed. 

And the power is almost certainly going out. 

EXELON is directly responsible for the repeated power outages here. EXELON’s company PECO stopped most tree trimming. Why is complicated, but PP&L in neighboring Lancaster, Berks and Lehigh County is still trimming. 

I think EXELON is managing for profits over service to customers but I don't understand the technical details. It's more than storms. Our power goes out from equipment failures regardless of the weather. 

Sunday January 24, 2016 3;42 pm. Power stayed on.
13th Avenue has one lane open. The photo is looking east to Caln Township. Caln Township streets are plowed. Will people in Coatesville need to wait for the snow to melt?

Standing in Coatesville looking east to Caln Township

Hillary Clinton needs to somehow climb out of the “Too big to fail” cesspool her husband created:

You won't see much about this in the normal everyday media. Wall Street owns the normal everyday media. The same for the RNC and the DNC. 

I like Hillary Clinton but she has a BIG Bill problem and it's got nothing to do with infidelity:

(Bill) "Clinton installed Robert Rubin and Larry Summers in the Treasury, which resulted in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which officially did in Glass-Steagall and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which left the derivatives market a laissez-faire Wild West (not to mention a disastrous strong dollar policy that was a critical and underrated factor in the bubble). He also reappointed Ayn Rand-acolyte Alan Greenspan, who has as much responsibility as anyone for creating the crisis, as Fed chairman—twice."

MORE AT:

Columbia Journalism Review

Bill Clinton on deregulation: ‘The Republicans made me do it!’

By Ryan Chittum

OCTOBER 1, 2013
Republican candidates won't touch who created the guys that "Brought Death to My Hometown" because the Republican Party was in on it. Except for Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders' campaign is almost entirely about putting the guys that "Brought Death to My Hometown" in prison. 
So if it's Hillary Clinton vs. any Republican but Trump it's Wall Street vs. Wall Street. "Any way you look at it you lose."
If it's Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump Democrats have a huge problem. Trump has the back of people that hate the guys that "Brought Death to My Hometown", along with xenophobic racists. 
If it's Bernie Sanders vs. Rubio or anyone but Trump,  it's the "People's Avenger" against Wall Street. It's a huge choice. 
If it's Bernie Sanders vs. Donald Trump it's one hell of an election:A New Deal Democrat vs. A Fascist White Nationalist Republican.It would be the most important election since 1936. 
"You've received over $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs in one year. I find it very strange that a major financial institution that pays $5 billion in fines for breaking the laws, not one of their executives is prosecuted while kids who smoke marijuana get a jail sentence." Bernie Sanders-Democratic Debate  January 17, 2016MORE AT: The Young Turks:

The same and the others

I have discovered that the greatest happiness comes from the simple act of helping others. 

It doesn’t even need to be other people. Feeding birds will bring happiness. 

“Levinas has taught us that our responsibility for others is the foundation of all human communities, and that the very possibility of living in a meaningful human world is based on our ability to give what we can to others. And since welcoming and sharing are the foundation upon which all communities are formed, no amount of inhospitable nationalism can be consistently defended when confronted with the suffering of other human beings.”

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New York Times

THE STONE

What Do We Owe Each Other?

By AARON JAMES WENDLAND

 JANUARY 18, 2016 3:45 AM

Chester County Republicans favorite, Scott Walker is making Wisconsin a Tammany Hall crime syndicate.

Tammany Hall- Who stole the People's Money

"SHORTLY after his exit from an abbreviated presidential run last fall, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin returned to a more successful undertaking: dismantling what remains of his state’s century-old progressive legacy.

Last month, Mr. Walker signed a bill that allowed corporations to donate directly to political parties. On the same day, he signed a law that replaced the state’s nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, a body that is responsible for election oversight and enforcing ethics codes, with two commissions made up of partisan appointees. Now a new bill supported by Mr. Walker, which is expected to clear the Republican-dominated Legislature with a Senate vote soon, threatens to corrupt Wisconsin’s Civil Service…

Mr. Walker’s new Civil Service bill replaces anonymous exams with résumés, opening the door to political or racial bias that would prove almost impossible to detect because personnel files are not part of the public record.” 

By adding the Civil Service bill, Mr. Walker brings Wisconsin closer to the achievement of a long-sought goal of the libertarian right: universal “at-will employment.” Unlike union workers or state employees, whose collective bargaining agreements or Civil Service rules generally require employers to demonstrate “just cause” for them to be fired, at-will employees can be terminated at any time for any reason. At-will employment is promoted by the Heritage Foundation and American Legislative Exchange Council, which disseminates model bills to state legislators benefiting its corporate members and conservative private backers.

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New York Times

The Destruction of Progressive Wisconsin

George Rogers "Roger" Howard speaks about Scott Walker at:

Gwen Alexander's Americans for Christian Traditions in our Nation "ACTION Breakfast January 14. 2014 Candidates" YouTube

"Every day you've been hearing at the success in Wisconsin...We can reduce taxes and pay for our roads. They're doing it in Wisconsin...My message is, it's possible to do it here. It was done in Wisconsin. There is no more union state than Wisconsin, where public service unions were born. There is no more Democrat state than Wisconsin. There is no more resistance to conservatism than in Wisconsin. And yet they got it done as in Indiana. We can do that here. That's what I would work for." 

GO TO:

https://youtu.be/9CVd49BPE_g?t=9m40s

"KLAN PHOTOS" Make it clear how White Supremacists Pat Sellers & Bob Saucier got on the Coatesville School Board

PHOTOS: 25 years ago this week, Ku Klux Klan marched in West Chester

Newcomers or younger people in Coatesville don’t know Chester County’s white supremacist history. 

It’s personal for me. I knew some of the people who witnessed the lynching of Zachariah Walker. 

It's frightening that there's a white supremacist revival here. They just don't call themselves Klan. 

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TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 2014

Poor Coatesville, the 1/2 Black Town that was Manipulated by a White Nationalist JBS Chapter Member

Do you find it the militia takeover of Federal property perplexing? A primer:

There are little armies called militias in countries around the world. 

But the militia groups in the news such as the groups in Oregon are nothing like the militias in other countries. They are extremely odd and peculiar to the United States. 

This is the best primer on what we call militia groups in the United States.

Our Chester County Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh is a member of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association.