by Whitney | Feb 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
I lost my bid for re-election as a Township Supervisor. Elections are like the world’s longest job interview. I knocked 946 doors, speaking with friends and neighbors; sending mail out to people about what I stood for, and what I believed. I chose not to attack...
by Whitney | Nov 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
I am a local Township Supervisor in Pennsylvania, running for re-election this year. Supervisor is a part-time position, and comes with a statutory stipend of $2,500.00 a year. that equates to about $5.20 or less an hour of meeting time, and other work we put in to...
by Whitney | Oct 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
My mother-in-law has dementia. She had been pretty good at hiding her slow cognitive decline for a long time, but gradually, not even those of us who would have preferred to be in denial could avoid the truth. We needed to move Nancy out of her home and into a...
by Whitney | Apr 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Neighbors: Click here to go to the Whitney For Supervisor Website While elections may be popularity contests, governing is about doing the hard work required, every day, that our community demands and deserves. To me, part of my job is to be available- that’s why...
by Whitney | Sep 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
2020 has been a crazy year. It doesn’t seem to be slowing down much, either. The pandemic has given me time to reflect about what’s important, and what I believe. This morning, I was thinking about how I was raised with certain core values. Others I have...
by Whitney | Jul 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
I was talking to a health care worker the other day, and they mentioned that they have several types of machines to do COVID tests in the hospital. The one machine they started with has been running pretty much 24 x 7 since March. It recently broke, and the hospital...