The tell-tale footprints evident at the site of Riverwalk are unmistakably those of Easton, Pennsylvania, lame-duck mayor Phil Mitman.
He follows in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor Tom Goldsmith. Just as Goldsmith used the Mayor’s position as a ladder to Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board, Mitman parlayed it into the executive directorship of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC).
I think it was the very next day after was discharged from the Veterans administration Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
I was driven there by my wife from our home in Easton, Pennsylvania, a journey that by car takes abouts and hour and a half.
Once again, as Halloween approaches, scary evidence that the city of Bethlehem is ripping off its taxpaying citizens jumps out from the pages of today’s edition of The Morning Call in the article titled “Butz [Alvin H. Butz Inc., a Bethlehem construction company] payback helps city finances,” filed by reporter Daryl Nerl, and sub-captioned “Developer’s $1.9 million dollar deal repays debt, offsets Bethlehem deficit.”
This article follows several recent articles by reporter Nerl exposing the corruption gripping Bethlehem, which bills itself to tourists as the “Christmas City,” for the reason that it was founded by the 18th-century Moravian religious leader, County Nicholas Von Zinzendorf.
On June 6, 2002, I appeared before Northampton County, Pennsylvania’s, council, the county’s governing body.
My purpose that evening was to declare war on the county, patterned after our federal government’s first insurrection, the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791.
Contrary to today’s Express-Times and its article captioned “Majestic ready to move on its development,” Majestic Realty of California is not ready to move at all.
The reason for this is the item directly below the caption: “Lawsuit causes delay in plans for 450 acres sold five years ago.”
Just as Northampton County Council has stopped a TIF tax exemption in Lower Nazareth Township, a judge has effectively stopped a slot machine gambling casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
I will be elaborating in comments to this post.
As we approach Halloween, I am presenting the skeleton of this post to frighten the public, as it will understand after it has read the article published in yesterday’s The Morning Call, “New Museum sought in easton by 2009.”
I will flesh out this skeleton in a later post when I have more time.