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.
No fewer than 550 acres of the former Bethlehem Steel Corporation’s 1800-acre tract was sold by the International Steel Group of billionaire entrepreneur Wilbur Ross to Los Angeles-based Majestic Realty Company in a deal negotiated by Bethlehem City Council President J. Michael Schweder and Lehigh and Northampton counties’ State Representative (and chairman of the state’s Democratic Party Committee) T.J. Rooney, who has since left his elective position as a Harriburg, the state’s capital, lobbyist.
Majestic Realty owns the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas, and its newly acquired site in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem may be targeted for more casino development, in addition to the Sands BethWorks LLC, of which Upper Saucon Township, Pennsylvania, Attorney Michael Perrucci is a principal.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania Act 71 of July 1, 2004, “legalizing” slot machine and horse racing-track (casino/racino) gambling occurred only four months following the admission by leaders of the National Museum of Industrial History including its Executive Director Stephen Donches that the project lacked sufficient funding to proceed.
The same kind of scam is being employed in Bethlehem’s sister city, Easton, located nine miles to the east on State Route 22 and on the Delaware River bordering New Jersey, to construct an interstate transportation bus terminal and/or depot-parking garage-shopping center-condominium mutation in the flood plain of the Delaware River and a major Delaware River tributary, Bushkill Creek.
“As director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs [OIRA] at the White House of Budget and Management [OMB], Susan E. Dudley will have an opportunity to change or block all regulations proposed by government agencies,” as reported by Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Joel Havemann at Latimes.com.
Much of the plot to overthrow our government through a bloodless coup centers on the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” a geographical area in eastern Pennsylvania, whose borders, like shifting sand (quicksand, that is) undulated with the latest U.S. Bureau of Census figures used to establish Metropolitan Statistical Areas.
Review the rogues’ gallery in the Lafayette College Magazine fall 2004 issue.
The gallery will greet the Lafayette College class of 2010 when classes resume this fall.
I want to thank The Morning Call for its article and editorial, and I say this as someone who has been a severe critic of the publication, as columnist Bill White, editorial page editor Glenn kranzley, and Easton editor Bob Orenstein, and other staffers, can attest.
I refer readers to the lead editorial, “Who owns slots casinos must be clear,” published in today’s edition of The Morning Call.
The New Jersey Highlands Act, in the news again in today’s New Jersey edition of The Express-Times, in an article titled “Highlands avocates call for halt to building,” underscores articles appearing recently in that newspaper, The Morning Call, and The Newark Star-Ledger and reported on at length by Billy Bytes.
The Highlands Act is attempting to protect the Musconetcong River, the border between Warren and Hunterdon counties, and two other Highland rivers, presumably the Pequest and Paulinskill, the latter of which I helped preserve through creation of the Paulinskill Valley Trail, the abandoned former Blairstown Railroad and New York, Susquehanna, and Western railbed that parallels the Paulinskill River.