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How I spent My Time as Supervisor in 2025

In 2025, I spent a total of 388 hours (an average of 32 hours per month) engaged in official Supervisor activities that included preparing for and attending meetings and interacting with residents. Click here for more details...

2025 Newtown Township Vendor Payments

To get a clearer picture of the day-to-day, nuts-and-bolts costs of running Newtown Township, I had Gemini review the public expense reports (“Bills Lists”) from Newtown Township, Bucks County, PA for the year 2025. The following infographic summarizes the result. Click here for more details…

Eminent Domain in Reverse

A Right-to-Know request has revealed a stunning twist in Newtown’s abandoned wastewater treatment plant saga: land taken through eminent domain is now being offered back to the original owner for $11.5 million, the exact amount paid by the sewer authority. The documents show the property on Lower Silver Lake Road was condemned for a proposed WWTP that was later scrapped—after the land was acquired and sewer rates were raised by 47% to help finance the purchase.

The big issue remains unresolved: what happens next? Read more...

December 2025 Issue of Newtown News Of Interest

December’s issue of News of Interest highlights major turning points in Newtown Township — including approval of a $16.86M 2026 budget that raises taxes and deepens long-term fiscal concerns, ongoing debate over the future of the abandoned WWTP parcel, and denial of the Newtown Athletic Club’s long-contested sign request.

The issue also covers a costly 50-year-old sewer surprise, a data-driven look at the November police report, and reflections from John Mack’s final Board of Supervisors meeting — with a clear message: staying informed and pushing for open, accountable local government continues. Read the issue...

Highlights from the December 10, 2025 BOS Meeting

At the 10 December 2025 BOS public meeting, Newtown Supervisors approved the 2026 Budget and a 30% tax increase, raising the total millage to 17.115 mills. The budget projects a $3.23M structural deficit and drastically reduces road paving funding by 25%, even as spending increases for police vehicles, a dump truck, and new administrative positions. Supervisor John Mack proposed re-allocations that would restore nearly one extra mile of paving, but the majority did not adopt the changes.

The meeting also featured Supervisor Mack’s farewell remarks after eight years of service, emphasizing transparency, public access to documents, and resident engagement.

A major portion of the meeting focused on concerns about selective enforcement in zoning, following a contentious ZHB hearing where the Chair questioned the Township’s inconsistent stance on sign ordinances.

Other updates included:

Neighbors for Open Government preparing to launch in early 2026
WWTP land: NBCJMA confirmed the property has been formally offered back to original owners
Approval of $1.08M in bills, including $444k for road projects
November Police Report: 2,215 incidents, +167% DUI arrests, 534 property checks. Listen to this Deep Dive podcast:

Mack's Newtown Voice · November 2025 NTPD Incident Report

Most Viewed Web Pages

December 2025

There were 4,903 pageviews in December 2025. The following pages - not including the home page and menu pages, etc. - were among the top most viewed pages:

Year 2025

The following web sites/pages were among the top most viewed pages in the Year 2025, during which there was a total of 16,064 page views::

Most Viewed News Stories

Year 2024

The following stories from the News of Interest and Newtown News Update email newsletters were among the top 5 most viewed news stories in 2024:

Most Viewed/Important Videos

December 2025

In December 2025, there were 124 views of videos on my "Newtown's Voice" Youtube channel. The following are the Top 5 most important – in my view – videos viewed in December, 2025. Click on the video image or link below the image to see the video.

1	9 December 2025 Meet Mack Tuesday Presentation
2	Challenging "Euclidian Zoning" As It Applies to Newtown Township [Why? See the “Newtown Office Research District Workshop”]
3	<!--cke_bookmark_5728S--><!--cke_bookmark_5728E--> Newtown Township LI/OLI District Overlay Concept [Why? See the “Newtown Office Research District Workshop”]
4	Mack's "Are You Shitting Me?" Stand Up Comedy Routine [Why? Hopefully, there will be less “shit” to protest/laugh about in 2026!]
5	Mack's 2025 Supervisor Activity Report Why? To see how I spent my time in 2025 fighting to keep you informed.]

Recently Curated Content

I "scoop" - curate - stories from regional and local news sources and pages of my website that may be of interest to Newtown Township area residents. Each "scoop" is an edited summary and links back to the original source article and related information.

Any opinions and/or insights appended to these article summaries are solely those of John Mack and do not represent the opinions of any other person or entity.