I can’t let this Easter Sunday pass without referring to my www.billybytes.com article titled “Springtime Follies” dated April 13, 2004.

The article opens with the paragraph, “Like Roman centurions on Calvary, rolling dice for the possession of Jesus’ robe, the Council members of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] gamble over its tattered finances.  This Thursday, April 15, 2004, Council is scheduled once again to refinance the county’s illegal $111 million bond, after tabling this dangerously risky venture in each of its last two meetings - ignoring the pleadings of Blank, Rome, Comisky, and McCauley bond counsel Jeff Blumenfeld, and responding instead to the warnings of opponent [sic] of the refinancing scheme.”

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