Montco budget blues

Let's see, the county is going to come up short, but no one wants to raise taxes, except of course Jim Matthews, who is the poster child for lame ducks everywhere, leaving his partner Joe Hoeffel, nearly as lame as Jim, and Bruce Castor, to either take a scapel to the budget or risk their chance at re-election. The Scoop doesn't think Hoeffel has the proverbial snow ball's chance of hanging on to his seat, and if Castor doesn't find just the right running mate the Dems will take over the county legitimately in the next election, especially if state Rep. Mike Gerber decides he's had enough of Harrisburg. A lot going on as we wind down 2010. What do you know that The Scoop doesn't?

Matthews goes begging

The Scoop heard Montgomery County Commissioner's Chairman Jim Matthews drove all the way across Pennsylvania on Election Day to stand by Gov. Elect Tom Corbett, and, more accurately, to beg for a job in Corbett's new administration. The only possible way Corbett gives him a job is to get him out of Montco. Our win, the state's loss.