July 31, 2006 at 4:52 am
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Please refer to article, “War over park’s fate a lengthy history of battles,” published in today’s edition of The Express-Times.
Reporter Courtney Lomax quotes former Nazareth Councilman and Mayor Elmer Yeakle as saying of the park’s deed restriction, “It’s [the deed restriction] is not there illegally. It was approved to be there by the people who controlled the deed.”
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July 29, 2006 at 10:51 pm
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On the snowy evening of January 3, 2005, Easton resident and Billy Bytes publicationss’ founder Billy Givens, accompanied by his friend John Todaro of Palmer Township, attended the year’s first meeting of Northampton County Council.
The meeting was held in the county seat of historic Easton’s Jacob Bachmann Publick House.
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July 29, 2006 at 10:50 pm
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July 29, 2006 at 10:46 pm
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July 22, 2006 at 5:36 am
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Easton, Pennsylvania blogger Billy Givens opposed the proposed parking garage of Arcadia Properties’ CEO and President Richard Thulin and Vice-President Shawn Langen, an Easton, PA, for the construction of a five-story parking deck on Larry Holmes Drive in the Delaware River and Bushkill Creek flood plain.
This is an urgent call to all fellow “tree huggers” to join me in this fight.
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July 22, 2006 at 5:09 am
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PA Gov. Ed Rendell “Rips laws on illegals,” as reported in today’s edition of The Morning Call.
“The only ones I want to hear speaking up and complaining about immigration are the Native Americans who we screwed,” Rendell said to a gathering of youg professionals on Thursday.
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July 20, 2006 at 7:39 pm
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The http://www.billybytes.com/blog/ and other Billy Bytes publications have been vindicated by the article, “Northampton County paid $12,000 in computer suit,” by reporter Paul Muschick, in today’s edition of The Morning Call.
Jeffrey Britland and Karen Brandau aren’t the only victims of what appears to be incorrigibly corrupt Northampton County Government.
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July 20, 2006 at 3:54 am
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Bethlehem is now involved in a U.S. Occupational and Safety Administration (OSHA) issue like the one that occurred in Easton in 1995 involving the Easton parking Authority, police station, and Two Rivers Landing, as revealed in yesterday’ edition of The Morning Call.
Just as OSHA shut down work on South Bethlehem’s Palace Row recently, in 1995 it posted and closed the EPA garage in downtown Easton for safety reasons.
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July 17, 2006 at 3:16 am
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Like the Apostle Paul, at first saw threw a glass darkly but then I saw clearly.
Solely for partisan political reasos, Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli is not be be blamed soley for cover up of the county’s MOAB, dropped on its taxpayers in 2001.
I’m talking not about the military’s 1000-pound Massive Ordnance Air Blast, successor to its 500-pound “daisy cutter” of Viet Nam and the inspiration for Bethlehem City’s “blast bang” explosive that set fire to the building where he lived and scorched his body after the city’s ninjas had shot him deat with 11 bullets, two of them in the back.
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July 16, 2006 at 6:49 pm
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Shortly before its role in the abduction and imprisonment of Anna Mae Kessler, Northampton County’s Agency on Aging dispatched two of its staff members out of their jurisdiction to Phillipsburg, New Jersey, to the residence of her niece Serera Nelson and husband Anthony where they at the time were caring for bed-ridden Anna Mae.
The staff members were accompanied by a Phillisburg police officer.
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