When Pennsylvania Governor announced the Keystone Innovation Zone (KIZ), the center of which is the state’s colleges and universities - the nucleus around which innovative satellite business partners cluster - he never mentioned that for Lehigh University one of these clustering industries - and hardly an innovative one - would be Las Vegas Sands slot machine gambling casino on the university’s front steps.

Or that the Lafayette College KIZ in Easton, Pennsylvania, would form the nucleus of a Bushkill Creek Corridor buit on 33 privately owned business located alongside the creek’s bed between 13th Street and the intersection of Larry Holmes Drive and Church Street - in the Delaware River and bushkill Creek floodplains.

For a description of Rendell’s KIZ package for Pennsylvania’s young at the sacrifice of its older population, see press release, “Governor Rendell Accepts First Application Keystone Innovation Zone Program from Franklin & Marshall College,” subtitled, “Governor outline plan for program in Lancaster one year ago [April 2003].”

More than three years later Pennsylvania is still hemorrhaging a population of its young - despite the expatriation of New York City’s yuppies to Philadelphia, earning the City of Brotherly Love the sobriquet, “New York City’s sixth borough.”

The so-called Lehigh Valley, three small third-class cities, two located in Northampton County - Bethlehem and Easton - and one, Allentown in Lehigh County, cobbled together to create a single “city,” also still experiences a population drain of its young.

This has prompted desperate so-called Lehigh Valley officials, politicians, and main-street boosters, using their influence all the way into Washington, D.C., and the federal Office of Management and Budge, OMB, to add all of Warren County, New Jersey, to the so-called Lehigh Valley’s metropolitan statistical area (MSA), “boosting the fictional Lehigh Valley’s population of the young.