Please refer to today’s The New York Times article by the Associated Press filed at 7:13 a.m. ET titled “WTO Powers Fail to Revive Trade Talks.”

The AP reports that “negotiators [meeting in the Swiss Alps] for talks on the liberalization of global trade through tariff reductions” failed once again in the first resumption of such talks since those held in the Qatar capital of Devas five years ago.

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Please refer to today’s The Express-Times article by reporter Anthony Salamone titled “Accolades flow for LVEDC” and subtitled “Annual meeting attracts 350. Agency has been criticized for not being open about operations.”

The number of attendees, 350, may impress, but the LVEDC is, in fact, an oligarchy, a government made up of only a few persons, compared to the lawfully constituted governments of Northampton and Lehigh counties duly elected by and with the consent of the voters of those jurisdictions.

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Please refer to the www.billybyte.com website article titled “Council to Choose Interim Mayor,” written and published by its editor, Billy Givens, and dated April 29, 2003.

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell appointed Easton Mayor Thomas F. Goldsmith to the Commonwealth’s Liquor Control Board (LCB) for one devious purpose and one purpose only: to let Goldsmith appoint his business administrator, Michael McFadden, as Easton’s interim mayor, a diabolical appointment that inspired the various Billy Bytes publications (newsletters and www.billybytes.com website to dub McFadden “Easton’s Interim Interregnum Mayor.”

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This posting on the Billy Bytes blog, http://www.billybytes.com/blog, referes readers to two articles in today’s edition of The New York Times: “Ex-Congressman Sentence to 30 Months in Prison” and “As College Grows, a City Asks, ‘Who will pay?’”

The ex-congressman of the first article is Robert Ney, caught in the web of the self-confessed and already imprisoned “Casino” Jack Abramoff, the subject of numerous Billy Bytes publications’ reports.

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Please refer to Bernie O’Hare’s Web page, “Our Common Bond,” precursor to his blog, “Lehigh Valley Ramblings.”

Please refer specifically to “County Council Giveaways to the three Little Piggies!”: Piggy #1 - Palmer Towne Center; Piggy #2 - Bangor Junction Industrial Park; and Piggy #3 - Arcadia East Industrial Center, the last of which I quote here in full verbatim full text:

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Refer please to article published in today’s edition of The New York Times (Jan. 16, 2007) titled, “Buyers Scarce, Many Condos Are for Rent.”

Despite the downturn in the condominum market, Easton, Pennsylvania, officials and developers still find themselves in the frenzied grip of “condo craze.”

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I have posted Jordan’s piece about the Bushkill Creek Corridor conspiracy, which also includes, in case I overlooked it, the Easton Parking Authority and the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor Commission, headquartered in Bethlehem and whose treasurer is recently resigned City of Easton business administrator and still National Heritage Corridor and Hugh Moore Park Inc. executive director.

As regards Rissmiller’s piece, which appears in the same Call Girl’s edition as Jordan’s expose of high-end condo developers Ashley Development, Arcadia Properties, and Lafayette College, it continues her own expose of the Phillipsburg, New Jersey, Railroad and Transportation Museum scandal.

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Refer please to the article by reporter Tracey Jordan titled “Award? Priceless Dinner? 5 grand, published in today’s edition of The Morning Call.

To Lafayette College, Ashley Development, and Arcadia Properties, add Koehler-Kheel Realty as the consortium of developers behind the Bushkill Creek Corridor project known as Bushkill Village that extends from 13th Street not just to N. 3rd Street but along Larry Holmes Drive all the way to S. 3rd Street - a corridor located in the Bushkill Creek, Delaware River, and Lehigh River flood plain.

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Urgent! Refer to news article titled “Slot Machines May Ring Where Steel Was Once Forged,” by reporter Terry Pristin, published in yesterday’s edition, January 10, 2007, of The New York Times.

I stood near Barry Gosin in the rear of the Bethlehem City Council chambers at the August 2006 standing-room-only meeting at which the council in a split decision vote (4-3) approved the South Side Bethlehem former Bethlehem Steel Corporation Saucon Tract (126 acres) as the site for Las Vegas Sands Casino BethWorks project of which Gosin is a partner, along with former New Jersey Governor Jim Florio and Florio’s law and development partner, Phillipsburg, New Jersey, lawyer and developer Michael Perrucci.

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