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When Journalism Goes Bad
POTTSTOWN, PA – This is the kind of crap that happens when you allow the foxes to guard the henhouse. Perhaps if Tom Hylton’s hand-picked members of his “Neighborhood Schools Team” posse voted to allow PCTV to record school board meetings (instead of them voting against it in 2008), the current video garbage du... »
Optimistic Hope
POTTSTOWN, PA – Are you looking for a report on Thursday’s public Pottstown Area Industrial Development, Inc.’s (PAID) meeting held at The Hill School? If so, don’t throw away your hard-earned money on today’s Mercury. Even though today’s print edition contains lots of “breaking” news stories, with almost 40% of Section A’s pages devoted... »
Historical Revisionism
POTTSTOWN, PA – Why is Tom Hylton so obsessed with having Pottstown taxpayers continue to pay for five unneeded (and unnecessary) elementary schools? Doesn’t he realize that the Pottstown School District is only one of two school districts in Montgomery County designated by the Pennsylvania Department of Education as a High Tax / High... »
Funny Times Are Here Again
POTTSTOWN, PA – Yes…it’s that time of the year again folks…time to look under the floorboards…look behind the petunia bushes…look in the basement…look in your neighbor’s shed…and find those insightful candidates to run for office! In addition to running his February/March “school daze” paid advertisement series in The Mercury, it looks like Campaign Manager... »
The Education Savior Is Here
POTTSTOWN, PA – Now that Tom Hylton has been wisely pink slipped from all Pottstown Borough commissions (Planning and Shade Tree most notably), he seems to be keeping himself busy these days writing advertisements for The Mercury. While most seasoned writers are welcomed to submit articles to publications for free…Tom Hylton can only get... »
Part III: The Party Is Over
Save Our Land, Save Pottstown – Just Say No Part III of a three part series of articles on Tom Hylton and why he should not be reappointed to a fourth term on the Pottstown Planning Commission POTTSTOWN, PA – In our first two articles of the series, we shared factual information on the... »
Part II: Hylton’s Way…or the Highway
Save Our Land, Save Pottstown – Just Say No Part II of a three part series of articles on Tom Hylton and why he should not be reappointed to a fourth term on the Pottstown Planning Commission POTTSTOWN, PA – In our first article of the series, Part I: A Power Trip Benefiting One... »
Cancelled!
POTTSTOWN, PA - Just a reminder folks that Thursday’s Pottstown School Board Committee of the Whole meeting is cancelled. The next official board meeting will be on Thursday, July 15. And while we’re on the subject…could someone please tell Tom Hylton to stop calling in comments about himself to Sound Off? It really is... »
“Fed Up With Tom”
POTTSTOWN, PA – That was the exasperated phrase uttered at the conclusion of last night’s Pottstown School Board Committee of the Whole meeting by School Board President Rick Huss. And doesn’t Mr. Huss’ words ring true for 99.9% of the population of Pottstown? We’ve been fed up with Tom Hylton for a long long... »
Send in the Clowns
POTTSTOWN, PA – Has the circus come to town? Apparently it has. At last night’s Pottstown School Board Committee of the Whole meeting, board member Thomas Hylton thought it appropriate to recruit members of the audience to be on his posse clown team for the next election cycle. Hylton did not recruit before or... »