Yesterday’s edition of The Morning Call published an article titled “ArtsQuest asks county for stacks of cash.”

Northampton County-beat report Joe Nixon used “stacks” as a play on words for “SteelStax,” a Sands (casino) BethWorks LLC (limited liability corporation) development project in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

ArtsQuest Executive Director Jeff Parks attended last night’s Northampton County Council meeting to ask it for $2 million in financial assistance toward the SteelStax project.

SteelStax refers to the five still-standing blast furnace stacks used by the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in the manufacture of steel before the company’s backruptcy in 2001 followed by its cessation of production.

Reporter Joe Nixon could have - should have - continued his play on words and referred to the Steel half of SteelStax as “Steal.”

For that is what “StealStacks” has done: stolen stacks in the millions of dollars from the unwitting taxpayers of Northampton County.

I have already reported in my post immediately preceding that Sands BethWorks LLC, which includes “StealStacks,” has stolen $13.1 million for the construction of a road named Commerce Center Boulevard.

This road traverses the 126 Sands BethWorks LLC acres called Commerce Corporate Center.

StealStacks’ request for $2 million is its latest attempt to pick the pockets of Northampton County taxpayers to defray the cost of remediating the toxic Bethlehem Steel Superfund Site and of constructing the Sands BethWorks LLC casino.