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About Us
Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government is a registered political committee created to encourage Pottstown Borough and the Pottstown School District to conduct their business in an open and professional manner.
To encourage excellence in government, Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government will post information and analysis from time to time on this Web site to help inform readers about local issues.
Our work is independent of any other public or private organization.
Our analysis of the issues, based on the facts, is clearly labeled as "Commentary."
Our Web site is continually evolving, so please check back often. Just as we seek continual improvement from the borough and school district, we seek to improve our performance as well. Your feedback is welcome!
Note: Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government was created as a community service. It is financed entirely by Tom Hylton -- no outside contributions are accepted.
To see our annual financial reports filed with the Montgomery County
Office of Voter Services since our inception, click on the years below:
2007
2008
2009
2010
About Tom Hylton, treasurer and Web site editor
Tom Hylton has lived for 38 years with his wife, Frances, in a small brick house at 222 Chestnut Street in downtown Pottstown, next to the John Potts Burial Ground. Frances recently retired after 35 years as an elementary school teacher in the Pottstown School District.
During his first 22 years in Pottstown, Hylton wrote for The Mercury, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 1990. He resigned from the newspaper in 1994 to form a small non-profit and write a book about ways Pennsylvania can preserve its towns and countryside. Later he produced and hosted a public television documentary based on the book that has aired more than 100 times on PBS stations nationwide.
Hylton serves on the Pottstown School Board. However, the views expressed on this Web site are his alone and not those of the school district administration or the school board.
Hylton served 12 years as chairman of the Pottstown Planning Commission and15 years as chairman of the Pottstown Shade Tree Commission. Hylton has championed Pottstown as a model of sustainable development in his book, public television documentary, and in 450 talks given in 35 states, including one to the nation’s governors at their 2001 conference in Washington. All his work is done pro bono.
Hylton was named Pennsylvania’s Urban Forester of the Year by the Pennsylvania Forestry Association in 1992; Conservationist of the Year by the Pennsylvania Wildlife Federation in 1999; and Historic Preservationist of the Year by Preservation Pennsylvania in 2000.
In December 2008, the Pottstown Citizens for Responsible Government Web site was established. At the same time, Hylton began writing occasional columns for The Mercury as paid advertisements.
The columns are used as a forum to promote the best aspects of Pottstown as a sustainable community. We believe these columns help promote good government and preserve Pottstown's core strengths, which include walkable neighborhood schools. Freedom of speech is a precious right which can make our communities stronger.