Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation’s appeal of a Pennsylvania National Pollutant Discharge Eliminations Systems (NPDES) dated November 7, 2007, into the Lehigh River in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, hasn’t even been scheduled yet for a hearing and disposition.

Yet construction is proceeding apace on the Sands BethWorks Gaming Casino LLC project in the South Side Bethlehem, Pennsylvania neighborhood on the south bank and in the 100-year flood plain of the Lehigh River.

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To the Delaware-Lenni Lenape Native Americans, what today are known as the Delaware and the Lehigh rivers were known as two branches of the same body of water - with the Lehigh River forming the western branch.

Because the city of Easton was settled at the confluence of these two branches, the Native Americans called it the “Forks of the Delaware.”

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The latest version of the “Lehigh Valley,” created by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OM&B) on June 6, 2003, is racist - if not in intent, certainly in effect - as documented in the article by  business reporter Gregory Karp in the  June 22, 2003, edition of  The Morning Call, one of two major mainsream newspapers in the so-called “Lehigh Valley.”

The Billybytes publications urge readers to obtain a copy of this astonishing article -astonishing even to veteran reporter Karp - to see how the OM&B, by manipulating statistical data from the year 2000 national census, has attacked minorities in urban centers like Newark, New Jersey, under the radar.

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Use the Easton Parking Authority garage in the 300 block of Pine Street with caution.

The garage may be in a worse state of disrepair than that reported in today’s The Express-Times article “Price tag for garage maintenance: $482,435.”

This caution is supported by an earlier Express-Times article, dated December 11, 1995, titled “Easton Ponders garage warning.”

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