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Our County Montgomery County PA  
CABLE CHANNEL PCN  - Pennsylvania House legislative sessions are carried on PCN.  However, Comcast, as of this writing,  does not offer PCN on basic cable in the service area which includes Abington.  It is carried on the digital channels (channels above 100), but I don’t know which one.  PCN is offered on basic cable in Upper Dublin, which is in a different service area.  If you have any updates for us on this issue , please send  them along to us. Abington Subscribers to Comcast might care to ask Comcast to change this. To unite with us to do this as one voice email us .   In the meantime, sessions are broadcast live on both caucus websites www.pahouse.com or www.pahousegop.com.  These are only carried live.  They are not available for replay after the house recesses.

Our State   
State Government  
State Tourism


NATIONWIDE
Towards Better Government:

Model ordinances  from other Townships on:
 Waste/ Use of Chemicals / Mining/ Eminent Domain/ Corporations/ etc etc
http://www.celdf.org/section.php?id=39

Reform - open access, right to know,  spending control etc.  
Promisepa.com - Reform platform from the senate
Grassrootspa.com - keep abreast of the latest developments in the conservative reform arena
Democracy Rising - reform issues
ElectionReformNetwork.us



 

 

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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