The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfield Revitalization Act (H.R. 2969), signed on January 11, 2002, by President George W. Bush in Conshohocken, Pennsyvania, is a fraud - particularly as applied to the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation CERCLA (Superfund Site) in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

Whatever relief small businesses have experienced on the 1600- to 1800-acre site is not the result of the Act, but the promise of an $879 million redevelopment effort anchored by Sands BethWorks LLP of Las Vegas, Nevada, and the support of that state’s senior U.S. Senator, Harry Reid, now the Senate’s Majority Leader.

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Today’s Express-Times bills as “breaking news” what it terms a “documentary” titled “Communities: Bethlehem” to be aired tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. and again with overkill at 8:30 p.m. on WLVT-39 TV.

WLVT-39, older viewers will recall, was the national Public Broadcasting System that has become the Tass, Pravda, and Isvestia propaganda apparatus of the former U.S.S.R., rolled into one.

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Former Northampton County Pennsylvania Fiscal Affairs Director Jean Mateff was a subject of discussion at last night’s county council meeting.

Councilman Ron Angle asked whether Mateff is now employed by the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC) at a salary of $150,000 a year and whether LVEDC provides her with the use of a Mercedes-Benz automobile in the performance of her duties.

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