Please refer to the lead editorial in today’s edition of The Morning Call, titled “Moretransparency, accountaility with federal OMB date base.”

In my blog posting titled “To PA Governor Ed Rendell’s KIZ, Billy Bytes says ‘Kizz my Ass,” dated August 18, 2006.

Under the KIZ, Keystone Innovation Zone, and based on data from the OMB (Office of Management and Budget), Pennsylvania and New Jersey have included all of Warren County and much of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in Pennsylvania’s ever-shifting borders of the so-called Lehigh Valley.

These shifting borders are described in The Morning Call article titled “Lehigh Valley, Warren County reunited as a metro area,” by reporter Gregory Karp, dated June 22, 2003.

This coup was pulled off by the “Lehigh Valley’s” LVEDC (Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation), LVIP (Lehigh Valley Industrial Parks), GLVCC (Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, The Express-Times, Northampton Community College, the chairman of the Delaware  River  Joing Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTB), Phillipsburg developer and lawyer and BethWorks Now partner Michael Perrucci, and his law partner former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio.

This coup of conspirators met first in June 2005 at the Harkers Hollow Country Club in Harmony Township, Warren County, as reported by The Express-Times’ Anthony Salamone, and again on August 14, 2005, at the Warren County Community College in Washington Township, New Jersey, as reported by the Newark Star-Ledger’s Steve Chambers.

Neither of these meetings was advertised to the public as required by OMB regulations in the sunshine of public hearings.

As I reported in my August 18, 2006, blog posting”

“The so-called Lehigh Vlley, 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,” 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 to Washington, D.C., and the federal Office of Management and Budget, 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.