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Does anyone know who is truly in charge of the revitaliza­tion of downtown Pottstown? I believe if we wait another year I don’t believe there will be anything left at all. The only activity I see is more and more of High Street getting jackhammer­ed up. It’s just so embarrassi­ng. I would love to volunteer to help but I don’t know what to do. Apparently nobody else does either.

Now let’s be honest here. If President Trump truly wanted to destroy North Korea he surely wouldn’t need a nuke to accomplish that. All he’d have to do is send Schumer and Pelosi over there to run it. Jim Dandy

And there you have it. Democrats just showed the middle class what they really think of us. They put the illegal immigrants over us the American tax paying citizens just to serve their agenda. Let’s all be real here. The reason Democrats want this DACA deal so bad is for all their votes. I ask you Democratic-loving people who do you think is going to pay for all of them when they go on Welfare and Medicaid? Us. Four More Years Baby

This is concerning Upper Darby Police Superinten­dent Mr. Chitwood. I’m Mary Beth Anderson from Chester and I just wanted to let him know that I have more respect for him than any other police commission­er or whatever he may be. He’s a good guy. I do not know how all this is happening in his town. My town is bad enough but I just wanted to let you know Mr. Chitwood that I’m on your side. You’re a good man. Chitwood Lover How legal is it for any business to not give employees handbooks but yet make them read one handbook only at work and make them sign a piece of paper stating they read it? How legal is that? Every employee should be given an employee handbook. What do businesses want to hide by not giving employees handbooks? Who can answer this question?

Subordinat­ing the interests of Americans and legal immigrants to those of illegals is a reflection of the globalist mind set which compelled Obama to alter rules of military engagement to the benefit of ISIS and the Taliban. Trump put an end to that treason and will do the same to an open borders agenda designed to Balkanize our nation. Mark Furlong

To Truth Be Told, this is not 1995 and it’s not 1960. In time all things were changed with the exception of the moral opinion of people who live in the past. Changes are coming for the good of our great nation and you can either accept it or remain in the past where nothing changes for the good of all Americans. KM

Donald Trump, I see gas prices are now getting close to $3. AAA says by the time summer gets here it’ll be $3. So since you took credit for the stock market I’ll give you credit for the gas prices going up and the oil prices too, they’re approachin­g $3 a gallon. So the poor people, there goes their raise right into the gas tank and the oil tanks. Good job Donald.

Trump shuts down the government for something that he said Mexico was going to pay for. Over and over again he said this, and in fact he wants the money from the American taxpayers. Just another lie coming from a big mouth. Fact

For the person who quoted the Democrats as saying they would do everything they could to destroy Donald Trump and make his term a disaster is wrong. It was the Republican­s that said that about President Obama. On Oct. 10, 2010, the Republican House Speaker John Boehner offering his plans for Obama’s agenda said “We’re going to do everything and I mean everything we can to kill it, stop it, slow it down, whatever we can.” Fact Checker

I’ve been an Eagles fan since the 1940s but I was never more disgusted with the way some Eagle fans treated the Viking fans on Sunday at the NFC game. They did not represent this area as a whole; they disgraced the city. The Philadelph­ia cops said they could not do anything about it which I disagree with. I wonder if a note of apology can be sent through the media in Minnesota from good Eagle fans. Anyone who has an opinion on this should also sound off. Bill H.

I think any politician that’s been charged with sexual harassment should pay for these out of his pocket, not the taxpayers. I don’t know what gives them the right to make the taxpayer pay for what they’re doing. It should be an expense that is paid by the politician­s not any taxpayer.

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