I am asking The Morning Call to leave its editorial, “Easton Council should listen to residents, reduce size of Riverwalk,” on-line long enough for readers to digest and comment.

However, Riverwalk should not “reduced,” as the editorial recommends, but jettisoned.

Riverwalk would rise 12 stories from the Delaware River and Bushkill Creek flood plains, the site of three disastrous floods in the last two years, beginning the Hurricane Ivan the Terrible.

For the Easton Historical Commission to have granted Riverwalk a “Certificate of Appropriateness” exceeds in ludicrousness only the obscene height of the project, looming ominously above the height of the multi-storied Governor George Wolf Building and it perch, the high bluff on which it sits overlooking the Delaware River.

And that’s why Arcadia Properties covets this site - its dramatic, panoramic view of the Delaware River and the toll and free bridges linking Easton and Phillipsburg, two cities as polically corrupt as the bi-state agency that manages the two bridges, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC).

Lafayette College, a partner with Arcadia Properties in developing the Bushkill Creek and Delaware River flood plains, used its political influence to get its retired Dean of Students, Herman Kissiah, appointed to the commission.

Kissiah’s task was to arrange the $40 million bond the DRJTBC floated to finance “economic development” projects at the bridge heads for Easton’s downtown and P’burg’s South Main Street, as well as Lafayette College’s Bushkill Village, the constructin of which Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell and legislature have financed with a $9 million grant of taxpayer money through yet another Keystone Opportunity Zone grant, this latest iteration of giveaways called a “Keystone Innovation Zone, or KIZ, grant.

Billy Bytes blog postings call the gift “KIZ My Azz,” which is what Rendell and so-called “Lehigh Valley” state representatives like Robert Freeman and Rob Wonderling are telling their taxpaying constituents to do.