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A recent meet-and-great with Lower Merion's new congressman turned into discussions primarily dealing with issues surrounding immigration, healthcare and newly elected President Donald Trump. About 150 people packed into the Merion Tribute House March 13, hours before a snowstorm hit, to meet with Dwight Evans (D-PA2). Evans won the seat in Congress in November after having been a member of the Pennsylvania State House since 1981.

Congressman Dwight Evans Op-Ed:

Last week marked the seven-year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act. A law that many argue is one of the crowning achievements of President Barack Obama's legacy.

For the last seven years, Republicans in the House and Senate have talked about their plan to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, "ObamaCare", and replace it with a law that cuts costs and covers more Americans.

Ever heard the term middle neighborhoods? If you haven't, you have likely visited, lived in or driven through one more recently than you think.

In reading through the new budget proposal I am reminded of a question President Trump asked this summer when he was speaking to the African American community at a rally in Philadelphia. The President asked the question: "What do you have to lose?"

This is what we have to lose:

Philadelphia schools recently issued a facilities report showing that the average student attends a school built in the year Brooklyn Dodger great Jackie Robinson stunned a Yankee Stadium crowd by stealing home during Game 1 of the World Series.

That was 1955.

This means our children go to the same aged, rundown K-12 facilities considered functionally obsolete by national standards a generation ago, when their parents attended the same dilapidated buildings.