Assad, in the tradition of his colleagues, is pimping for his whore The Morning Call Girl.
Today, Novermber 21, 2006, she has chosen Assad from her stable of procurers to hustle her wares, once again spreading her pages and “putting out.” i
She thus persists in saving not only her whore house in the so-called Lehigh Valley red-light district of mushrooming bars, fast-food outlets, pawn shops, and proposed slot machine gambling casinos and horse-racing tracks with slot machines, called “racinos,”; she’s also trying to salvage the whole Tribune publishing syndicate, headquartered in Chicago, of which The Morning Call Girl is the smallest of the 14 newspapers the syndacate owns.
The Tribune’s free-falling profit margin is the victim not only of the Chandler publishing syndicate of Los Angeles, which to its sorrow sold its prestigious The Los Angles Times newspaper to the Tribune; it is also the victim of the Chandler family, whichhas now taken legal action and stockholder rebellion against theTribune’s efforts to consolidate and monopolize main-stream, print media-disseminated news.
The Tribune is also the victim of the growing number of bloggers like me and David Clark, a former Easton, Pennsylvania businessman who with me has co-authored articles on the www.billybytes.com website about The Morning Call’s effort to buy one of the “Lehigh Valley’s” two television stations, WFMZ-69 or WLVT-39, which was a public broadcasting channel before the “Lehigh Valley’s” rival to The Morning Call Girl. The Excess-Times (dubbed that by me because it kisses officialdom’s ass to excess all the time) through its columnist Dave Boyer and Easton’s State Theatre executive director Shelly Brown, whose previous job was WLVT station manager Sheldon Siegel’s assistant, harassed him out of his position and made the station essentially a commercial one.
For smearing Siegel in his columns, Boyer - and his wife - were rewarded with staff jobs in Washington, D.C., by the “Lehigh Valley’s” then-U.S. Congressman Paul McHale, the first Democratic congressman to call for President Bill Clinton’s impeachment over the Lewinski sex scandal; for lawsuits she brought against Siegel smearing his reputation and driving him from his position, Brown was rewarded with the executive directorship of the State Theatre.
The State Theatre subsequently received an $800,000 grant from Northampton County’s illegal 2001 $111 million bond, issued by the county’s illegal General Purpose Authority by the county’s previous corrupt executive, Glenn Reibman.
When Democrate Reibman, the bond, and the GPA were challeneged by Northampton County Councilman Republican Ron Angle in the November 2001 general election, the rivals participated in a debate held in the State Theatre with advance notification to the voting public that the debate would be broadcast countywide over WAEB-FM radio.
Minutes before the debate, Brown took the stage and announced the debate would not be radio broadcast because of “technical problems,” and though Angle clearly won the debate he lost the election.
The State Theatre’s $800,000 grant from the county’s $111 million went non-competively to “Lehigh Valley” construction manager Alvin Butts to upgrade the theater’s Acopian Room and the executive offices of Brown and her staff, including what I in a Billybytes newsletter described as “ermine-lined toilet seat covers.”
With this, let me interrupt this posting before The Morning Call’s Easton madame, Bob Orenstein, reads it and removes the link - nothwithstanding my friend and fellow blogger Bernie O’Hare’s contentions that neither The Call Girl nor The Excess-Times manages the news.
I will return soon to explain why the link is further proof of the corruption swirling around the Riverwalk project of Arcadia Properties and Lafayette College, the luxury condos of developer Koehler-Kheel in the Eastonian, the former Hotel Easton, 150 more luxury condos proposed by Ashley Development’s projects on the site of Easton’s Cinema Paradso theater and Pomroy’s department-store buildings.
The link is especially relevant to the “Bushkill Village” project because it includes property between the Delaware River and the former Simon Silk Mill at 13th St. - developable property that lies between that section of Bushkill Creek and the Cemetary Curve described in the link.
The Easton Cemetery is on the Register of National Historic Places, as are Easton’s neighborhoods of downtown Easton and College Hill.
Northampton County, its seat Easton, and developers including Allentown-Whitehall township developer-speculator Abraham Atiyeh are all in egregious violation of the National Historic Preservation of 1982, the statute that saved New York City’s Grand Central Station and under which Easton’s downown, College Hill’s, Easton Cemetery’s, and Hugh Moore Park’s and the City of Bethlehem’s national districts were created.
These officials and developers are also in violation of Pennsylvania’s Act 167 of 1961 enabling municpalities to adopt local historic district ordinances.
They are also in violation of Northampton County’s Comprehensive Plan, the City of Easton’s own zoning ordinances, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency statutes and regulations prohibting development in floodplains and wetlands and on steep slopes.
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