Only one day after I criticized the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, former member Samuel Alito, now a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, today cast the swing vote in a 5-4 decision that restricts public employees’ First Amendment rights of free speech under the U.S. Constitution (see NYT article).
Archive for May, 2006
Corruption in Northampton County and Its Seat Easton
I just drove by Saint Anthony’s Church behind the Catholic grade school where a funeral was in progress.
The Catholic-owned parking lot at the intersection of Washington and 9th streets was filled with the cars of the funeral-goers.
Northampton County Corruption
PA Governor Edward Rendell finds himself in a serious conflict of interest. He is the subject of a federal lawsuit together with Northampton County Council, the county’s governing body, the Forks Township Board of Supervisors, that municipality’s governing body, and any number of Forks Township privately owned businesses, including Binney & Smith, whose parent company is Hallmark Cards of Kansas City, Missouri, the Fuller Company, and the Nic Zawarkski and Sons Construction Company.
The attorney representing the lawsuit’s plaintiff, the Delaware Indian/Lenni Lenape indian tribe, is Steven Cozen of the Cozen O’Connor, a close personal and political friend and associate of Governor Rendell.
Northampton County Wise Guys
I have news for the FLSmidth Cement Inc. and the adulating piece by business reporter Anthony Salamone, published in today’s edition of local corporations’ public relations agent, The Express-Times.
It hasn’t been that many years since United Way was at the center of one of the biggest financial scandals in the history of charities, or what, as quoted in Salamone’s article, FLSmidth’s CEO Christian Jepsen calls “philanthropy.”
Corruption in Northampton County and in What’s Radidly Becoming a Truly Third-Class City, Bethlehem
An article in the Brownsfield News exposes the lies of Lehigh Valley Industrial Parks Executive Director Kerry Wrobel.
In fact, the article exposes the most scarlet scandal in the history of Pennsylvania since the notorious Walking Purchase of 1737. That was the fraud perpetrated on the Delaware Indian Tribe and its political successor the Lenni Lenape Tribe.
The Untimely and Unjust Demise of Anna Mae Kessler at Age 81
Northampton County Pennsylvania and Warren County New Jersey officials conspired to bury Plainfield Towhship resident Anna Mae Kessler before she even died.
They buried her in the isolated Willaims Manor assisted-living facility located at 164 Baron Road, Plainfield Township, Pennsylvania.
Corruption in the “Lehigh Valley,” Northampton County, and the County’s Seat Easton
The fraudulent “Lehigh Valley” bears as much resemblance to reality as the Southern novelist William faulkner’s fictitious “Yoknapatawpha County” bears to the real Jefferson County of the Mississippi Delta.
The phantasmal “Lehigh Valley” is the creation of cynical poliical power-grabbers like the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of commerce’s Marta Boulos Gabriel and Lafayette College President-Emeritus Arthur J. Rothkopf whose cooperation with alchemists like Gabriel won him positions Inside-the-Beltway as counsel and a vice-presidency of the National Chamber of Commerce.
Northampton County Racketeering
WARNING!
The house of Anna Mae Kessler and her late husband Chester is sold at public auction today from 1-4.
The house is located at 574 Bangor Road, Easton (mailing address), Plainfield Township.
Northampton County Corruption Continued
There was no debate of the ordinance revising the articles orgnizing the county’s General Purpose Authority when it was introduced to council on February 21, 2002, by council member Timothy Merwarth, soon-to-be chairman of council’s Finance Committee, replacing councilman Ron Angle, whom his cohorts on council were already plotting to remove.
These conspirators already had their audio recording equipment set up and ready to go in time for Angle’s scheduled Saturday morning Sunning WGPA-Am 1100-on-the-dial radio broacast from 8:00 to 10:00 AM.
Corruption in Northampton County and Its Seat Easton
As Bill white considers this year’s nominees for his Hall of Fame, I find myself weighing the identify of Northampton County Council’s most corrupt president.
The choice is difficult. I personally have suffered the abuse of Jerry Seyfried, Rich Grucela, Glenn Reibman, Wayne Grube, and J Michael Dowd, all Democrats except Dowd.