Yesterday’s (Sep. 10, 2007) edition of The Express-Times published an article by its City of bethlehem-beat reporter Kurt Bresswein titled “Saving Steel history online” (Steel meaning the defunct  Bethlehem Steel Corporation that was operated and headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania).
Regrettable, and ironically, I can’t link the reader to Bresswein’s article because it was not published online.

According to the article, this history will be documented on a website created by Lehigh University located in Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Inc., the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park Coalition, the National Museum of Industrial History, a division of the Smithsonian Institute, and the Sands BethWorks Casino featuring slot-machine gambling

Except for the publicly owned Smithsonian, its partners are all private, non-profit, tax-exempt organizations whose meetings, deliberations, and decisions are closed to public scrutiny.

Just today, for example, the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park Coaltion received proposals for implementing the website.

As Bresswein reports in a companion article titled “Other projects get rolling,” Tueday’s meeting was closed to the public but could result in an announcement next month, an official said.”