🔵 We, the residents of the Susquehanna Valley, appreciate you Matthew Jackson for all you do. Your tireless work related to the following initiatives is helping to transform the region into a more economically competitive, healthy and just community that attracts and retains businesses and residents. This is just a partial list of some of …
Continue reading A thank you to Matthew Jackson, one of Central PA’s most effective leaders.
Martin Luther King Jr. describes the good productive kind of tension here in his world famous “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”: 🚩 "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so …
These are not anomalies. We have a serious problem with child abuse in York County. But the County Commissioners don’t provide nearly enough funding to Children and Youth services to address our serious problem. Why is that? Pls email Julie Wheeler JLWheeler@yorkcountypa.gov , Doug Hoke DHoke@YorkCountyPA.gov and Scott Burford sburford@yorkcountypa.gov and give them your thoughts. …
55th birthday coming up soon so I’m doing a bit of reminiscing. 90 second video montage of some fun memories at link below. 🙂 https://www.facebook.com/share/v/Ac3eYzQtWt8vjrxF/?mibextid=WC7FNe
“A DREAM TOO SMALL: Why Developer Tim Pasch’s Sprawling Freedom Square Development is Unfortunately Not What the Majority of York Countians Need” I politely & respectfully contacted developer Tim Pasch a few months ago to ask if he’d be willing to help join forces with others to help solve York County’s affordable workforce housing crisis. …
Automatic $100 TICKETS to anyone traveling over 75 mph. Not in place yet, but it could be implemented on Rt. 30 and I-83. Might be the only efficient way to slow drivers down to reasonable speed. Haven’t we had enough deaths on York County highways? People are speeding constantly on these highways and the only …
(Pls share). Don’t miss articles re Shapiro corruption at green dots at bottom.🟠 INCREDIBLE POST here from a concerned citizen: “Pennsylvania is one of the few states that allows legalized corruption because it does not have a ban on corporate and lobbying gifts. Junkets to Super Bowls, concerts and country clubs are all par for …
🔴 York County business, political & community leaders & leaders at the YORK COUNTY ECONOMIC ALLIANCE need to realize they have an affordable workforce housing crisis on their hands, one that they are partially responsible for creating. 🚩 70% of unhoused people in York County work full time (per Affordable Housing Advocates). 🚩 Bell Family …
“CESSPOOL” — Bribery of state reps & state senators continues to be legal in PA because PA Democratic House & Senate members, Governor Shapiro & some business & economic leaders are protecting corrupt Philly democrats. They’re protecting those corrupt Philly democrats by holding up the gift ban bill. They’re holding that important legislation up (legislation …
Hike in new places. Explore our beautiful Susquehanna Valley. “Have you ever eaten a Washington Boro Jet Star tomato? Taken in a show at Lancaster's Fulton Theatre? Ridden the Strasburg Rail Road? Attended a baseball game at Clipper Magazine Stadium? If you’ve done some of these things, you’ve already checked off a few items on …
Over 100 business, political & community leaders have signed an open letter to the York County Commissioners (list of signers below at 🟢). This letter was published in the York Daily Record. It encourages the commissioners to establish a COUNTYWIDE HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION to fight discrimination in all its forms. Establishing a countywide human relations …
😯 April 12, 2024
🟡 Photo top left: Zuccotti Park (“Freedom Plaza”) in NYC 2011. PHOTO Bottom left is police officer spraying pepper spray directly into the faces of peaceful student protesters at UC Santa Cruz in California. The next 3 PHOTOS were all taken at the Brooklyn Bridge. The Occupy Wall Street movement went from one park in …
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Here are the eye opening stats related to York County’s affordable workforce housing crisis and homelessness crisis. Please note that, in addition to being a moral issue, these twin crises are hurting our economy. (Pls see why below): 1 – We all recently learned from Affordable Housing Advocates that 70% of unhoused people in York …
So many of us are stressed to our limits. THREE DEEP BREATHS is a place for people in the Susquehanna Valley to center, recharge & heal. Check it out and share with friends. ☺️ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552536310906&mibextid=LQQJ4d.
In a community with $37 billion of investable net assets, there should be ZERO homelessness. But instead, we have a full blown homelessness crisis that is partly of our own making and a full blown affordable housing crisis that is also partly of our own making. And it’s not just sad for the unhoused families …
Here are the eye opening stats related to York County’s affordable workforce housing crisis and homelessness crisis. Please note that, in addition to being a moral issue, these twin crises are hurting our economy. (Pls see why below): 1 – We all recently learned from Affordable Housing Advocates that 70% of unhoused people in York …
Matthew Jackson and I recently had another great meeting (at our downtown York “office” - Prince St. Cafe) with a key York County leader. As always, we learned a lot, we have lots of new homework to do and we are heartened by how much leaders in York truly care about this community. The more …
HOMELESSNESS PLEDGE Dear Friend of Justice, Compassion and Equity for All: As part of the advocacy of THE VALLEY: People Power and Caring Communities, we are proud to share with you THE VALLEY's HOUSING BILL OF RIGHTS AND ZERO HOMELESSNESS PLEDGE. (That doc is at the red dots 🔴 below ⬇️). Matthew Jackson worked at a …
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Taking time to smell the flowers. . . then and now. My aunt used to have a 10 x 12 inch stained glass decorative piece with a short excerpt from the Desiderata on a table in her hallway. I always was drawn to that perspective as a kid when I read those quotes. Here is …
Continue reading Taking time to smell the flowers. . . then and now.
It makes sense that these nine habits lead to a happier, healthier, longer life. 😊 “The Blue Zones Power 9™️: Lifestyle Habits of the World’s Healthiest, Longest-Lived People.”Click here for details: https://www.bluezones.com/2016/11/power-9/.
“People living in 17401, downtown York City, have an average life expectancy of about 73 years, whereas people living in 17402, suburban York County, have an average of about 82 years. When one takes a look at some of the other disparities, why this is so becomes clearer.” Posting this OP ED from 2020 because …
Welcome to THREE DEEP BREATHS. So many of us in the Susquehanna Valley are stressed to our limits. Three Deep Breaths is a place to center, recharge & heal. Here you’ll find simple practices and habits that can provide peace and happiness. This site aspires to become a calming oasis for people in the Susquehanna …
All of the following is by Kelly Lynch, PhD., retired educator of SWSD & Matthew Jackson, Class of 1990. This OP ED appeared in the York Dispatch: An Open Letter To The South Western School District Board Directors From rural, humble beginnings to decades of hard-earned victories, achievements and successes, with thousands of teenagers turning …
🌎 Our steering team (made up of York County business, political, community and health care leaders) has been working diligently for more than three months to help bring Blue Zones Project to York County. You may be familiar with “blue zones” from the new Netflix documentary “Live to 100: The Secrets of Blue Zones.” https://youtu.be/it-8MIm29bI?si=oZ6iN48coV-j34qQ …
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 56 years ago today. 🟪🟪🟪 “SOME SHOCKING THINGS MOST AMERICANS DON’T KNOW About Martin Luther King Jr.’s Murder” — Most Americans are unaware that, in 1999, the info below came out in a successful lawsuit brought by the King family for a total of $100. The verdict was that …
YORK COUNTY’S MOST POWERFUL HISTORY by Matthew Jackson ⬇️. Which is your favorite? I like #’s 4,7,9 and 🚩I’m especially fascinated by #13 (last one). ANCESTORS AND ORIGINS: Susquehannocks, Petroglyphs, the Susquehanna and Codorus (run with the rapids) waterways named and worshipped by Native Americans. John Smith’s voyage to the Chesapeake and mouth of the …
MLK & Thich Nhat Hanh. FASCINATING. 🚩 Did you know that Martin Luther King Jr. nominated world famous Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize?🚩Did you know that it was Thich Nhat Hanh who helped convince Martin Luther King Jr. to come out strongly and publicly against the Vietnam War? Thich Nhat …
Continue reading DYNAMIC DUO – Martin Luther King Jr. & Thich Nhat Hanh
Martin Luther King Jr. describes the good productive kind of tension here in his world famous “Letter from the Birmingham Jail”: 🚩 "Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks to so …
Continue reading THE GOOD FORM OF TENSION (as defined by Martin Luther King Jr.)
“Worth repeating: When you wake up in the morning and you are grumpy, angry and complaining for no reason, always remember that being born in the right place in the world is just a matter of luck.”
The Israeli army just killed 3 humanitarian aid workers with precision guided missiles. These aid workers were taking food to starving Palestinians. It's time for political leaders in the U.S. to stop sending American taxpayer money to the Israeli army. “The three British citizens, a Polish citizen, an Australian, and a Canadian American dual citizen …
Pls visit, like, follow & share “HEALTHY HABITAT: Clean Water & Air in the Susquehanna Valley”. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552733170463&mibextid=LQQJ4d . 🌎 Advocating for clean air and water and a healthy environment in the Susquehanna Valley. We human beings are a part of the web of life, not above it. The Susquehanna Valley is a beautiful place, but …
✴️ A QUESTION FOR JANELLE STELSON (candidate for U.S. Congress): Will you pledge today to do everything in your power if you are elected to make sure that the paper mill (was Glatfelter Paper but changed its name to Pixelle) never dumps wastewater into the Codorus waterway again❓ ➡️ Here’s a 2 minute video clip …
Continue reading A QUESTION FOR JANELLE STELSON (candidate for U.S. Congress)
CODORUS COLOR DIFFERENCE — Please see aerial photo. This is where the two branches of the Codorus Waterway join together in southern York County. One of these branches comes from the paper mill. (Was called Glatfelter but they changed their name to Pixelle). You can see the color of the water is different. The two …
Continue reading What is in that water that comes from the paper mill and spills into the Codorus❓
🚩 “LIVE BETTER YORK” — Explore better living, cooking, exercise, relaxation, recreation, transportation, community relationships and more. . . all the ingredients for a better life in the Susquehanna Valley. Pls visit, like, follow & share the “LIVE BETTER YORK” page at this link: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556990784567&mibextid=uzlsIk My name is Bill Swartz and I’ll be learning right …
When I was a little kid growing up in York, Pennsylvania, I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house. It was a brick rancher with a walk out basement and it was built in the 1950’s. I always felt happy there. Safe, warm and hopeful. It had a real post-war prosperity vibe. My …
🔴 8 SOLUTIONS TO THE CHALLENGES WE FACE IN YORK COUNTY. None are cure-alls, but some begin to actually address our persistent challenges. (This includes solutions to problems on the list “A COMMUNITY EMERGENCY: Lamentable Grades Received by York County” — pasted at the bottom of this post ⬇️ for your convenience — below the yellow dots. Includes …
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Currently, many of the employees of York County corporations can’t afford to live in York County. And some of the responsibility for this lies with corporate leaders because they unfortunately haven’t yet discovered the benefits of paying their employees a living wage. 70% of unhoused people in York County work full time (per Affordable Housing …
🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 LEAD PAINT LANDFILL POVERTY BLUES There are good leaders for sure, so this ain’t for you. This is for leaders who don’t have a clue. ————————————— Landlords meet lawyers, but no kids are mentioned. Lead poison profits eclipse all health mentions. ————————————— As rivers of lawyers protect them from kids, Re-public landfillers dump plastics and …
When kids and adults are pulling on the front door of the library at 1:15 pm on a Fri, Sat or Sun, only to find it LOCKED, your community has a serious problem. The current ultra short hours (which are not the fault of the library managers or staff) send a terrible signal to citizens …
We can (1) be good business people and also (2) care about people and the planet. The two are not mutually exclusive. . . unless we’re stuck in silo thinking. SILO THINKING is compartmentalizing so we don’t have to wrestle with moral dilemmas. It arises out of a fear that caring about people and the …
Currently it’s legal in Pennsylvania to discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression. Until we change this, Pennsylvania will continue to repel residents and businesses instead of attracting and retaining them. Pls advocate for passage of the PA Fairness Act. It would ➡️ outlaw discrimination on the basis …
🚩 Per the York City Health Department, in some York City census tracts, HALF of the kids have lead poisoning. It doesn’t have to be this way. Maryland has much stricter standards for lead and those make a real difference. York kids deserve better. Do we want to reduce the number of murders in York City, improve academic …
Continue reading OP ED York Sunday News: It’s time for York to address its lead poisoning crisis.
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