• Sean Kilkenny, Deborra Sines-Pancoe, Rick Bunker, George Locke

    Jenkintown and its leadership hit with civil rights lawsuit

    Dave and Peggy Downs have served the Borough of Jenkintown and its four de facto leaders with a Federal civil rights lawsuit. The suit filed in Pennsylvania’s Eastern District Court, names the borough along with Council President Deborra Sines-Pancoe, Council Vice-President Rick Bunker, Borough Manager George Locke, and Borough Solicitor... Continue reading

  • Jenkintown Borough Hall

    The costs of Jenkintown’s political vendetta

    Even in little Jenkintown, it costs big money to carry out a political vendetta by weaponizing your zoning code, especially if your victim has the nerve to fight back. Jenkintown’s ongoing political drama turned circus turned fiasco has hopefully come to a close. On July 12, the Zoning Hearing Board... Continue reading

  • Jenkintown 2035 tip-toes around issues it needs to address head on.

    Jenkintown 2035: Not thinking big enough

    Jenkintown adopts a long-range plan that tip-toes around issues it needs to address head on. Last week, after five years of discussion, Jenkintown Borough Council formally adopted the Jenkintown 2035 plan. After a half a decade of notes, presentations, debates, and fact finding, the fact that no one involved with... Continue reading

  • Jenkintown Council President Deborra Sines-Pancoe

    Cedar Street Redux?

    Council President Deborra Sines-Pancoe motion to exercise an option to purchase of the Church of Our Savior almost slipped right under our noses last June 20 at the special Council meeting. If Borough Solicitor Patrick Hitchens hadn’t corrected the wording of her motion, we might never have known of the... Continue reading