In the http://www.billybytes.com/blog/ post of June 15, 2006, I write about the Easton, Pennsylvania, HOPE VI project of the Easton Housing Authority (EHA) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Development in Washington, D.C.
Fellow blogger, Nazareth resident Bernie O’Hare III, in a post dated March 14, 2007, and featuring me, Bernie also makes references to the HOPE VI project.
The Morning Call, a Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, mainstream news media print publication, carried an April 3, 2008, column by Washington Post nationally syndicated columnist George Will titled “Gambling global appeal profits Venetian’s Adelson.”
This column is titled “The Mogul Who Bet on Vegas,” the mogul being Sheldon Adelson, the third richest man in America after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and the owner of the Venetian casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Macao, Communist China, the latter being the largest casino in the world.
The purpose of this post is to verity the fact that Donna Taggart Associates is an integral part of the development team involved in the “taking” of private property - at least 33 such properties - in the floodplain of the Bushkill Creek Corridor between Easton, Pennsylvania’s N. 13th St. and Larry Holmes Drive to the east inclusive of much of Bushkill Drive, Snyder and N. Green streets, and Nevin Terrace.
The City of Easton acting through its Redevelopment Authority as agent is “taking” the privately owned properties - at least 33 - under the threat of eminent domain, and, in so doing, is acting on behalf of Lafayette College and its plan to develop a new urban center known as Bushkill Village beneath the precipitously steep slopes on which the main Lafayette College campus precariously teeters and in the Bushkill Creek and Delaware River floodplain.
The Billy Bytes Blog scooped The Excess-Times (kisses officialdom’s ass to excess at all times) and its pimp reporter to officialdom’s johns (including, literally, Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan) Kurt Bresswein.
The latest Billy Bytes post hit the Internet ether at 12:11 a.m. this morning, whereas procurer Bresswein’s article didn’t hit the newsstands until much later this morning.
Reporter Kurt Bresswein is The Express-Times’s pimp for johns like Lehigh Valley Industrial Park (LVIP) Inc. President Kerry Wrobel.
Wroebel is hooked in with all kinds of unsavory characters. One of these is R. Chadwick Paul Jr., chief executive officer of the Northeaston Pennsylvania Ben Franklin Technology Partners.
The Express-Times lay in wait to pounce on my May 4, 2007, blog posting, titled “$111 Million (Actually, $222 Million) Fraud,” in reporter Kurt Bresswein’s article, Lesson in development success steps away,” dated May 6, 2007, only two days after my blog posting of Friday, May 4, 2007.
Specifically, The Express-Times’s article responds to my allegation that “This toxic property [meaning the 1600- to 1800-acre former Bethlehem Steel Corporation property] remains an unremediated Superfund site.”
Lafayette College President Arthur J. Rothkopf is an adept aviator. He learned to fly as a Deputy Secretary of Transportation under President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him to the job.
Upon Bush’s November 1992 defeat at the hands of Bill Clinton, Bush dispatched Rothkopf to Lafayette College as its president (Rothkopf was an alumnus of the the class of 1955) to lay groundwork for the Presidential election of 1996, who turned out be Senator Bob Dole, of course, who, upon his failed run, was hired by Pfizer to hawk Viagra.
Following is the article by The Morning Call reporter Scott Kraus describing the fraud involving Northampton County Council President J. Michael Dowd, who also represents District 2 including Northampton County’s seat Easton; Dowd’s fellow council members; council’s solicitor Brian Monahan, Esq.; the Executive Glenn Reibmann administration; and the county’s General Purpose Authority in defrauding the taxpayers of Northampton County - a fraud perpetrated at the Northampton County Council meeting of March 7, 2002:
“As expected, Northampton County Council solicitor Brain Monhahan has given his stamp of approal to changes proposed for the county’ General Purpose Authority.
“In 1964, Glenn Fisher, a brilliant and cantankerous Agriculture Department scientist whom I befriended years later, and Casey Kays, a New Jersey outdoorsman, independently began calling attention to the imminent destruction of Sunfish Pond and the lovely meadow around it, which was bisected by the Appalachian Trail” and which was threatened with extinction by a proposal to construct a dam on the Delaware River at Tocks Island.
This account is excerpted from the Kiko’s House blog of award-winning editor and reporter Shaun Mullen in his posting dated Monday, April 2, 2007.
“The persistent Fisher and Kays, who had joined forces to form the Lenni Lenape League, caught the first wave of the environmental movement and rode it to Sunfish Pond.
Billybytes Publications have investigated and established the nexus between octogenarians Anna Mae Kessler, age 81, a former resident of 574 Bangor Road, Plainfield Township, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and Alice Mae (Nee Kays) Kitchen, 86, of Hainsburg Village, Knowltown Township, Warren County, New Jersey.
Anna Mae Kessler and Alice Mae Kitchen share more in common than just the initials of their middle name (which also, not coincidentally but through the inscrutable intervention of God Almighty, is also the middle name of my mother, Ida Mae Givens. age 92.