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.

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“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.

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Billy Bytes Blog post titled “The Selling of Easton, Pennsylvnia’s. Environment,” dated August 17, 2006, describes the ladder at the convergence of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.

This is not the fish ladder that enables the fish to negotiate the dam off Scott Park. Rather, it’s the ladder proposed by this public-private partnership: the City of Easton and its Parking Authority; Northampton County and LANTA (Lehigh and Northampton Transit Authority); the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC); Lafayette College and Arcadia Properties.

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“Atlantic City Aiming Higher as Casinos Slip,” published in today’s edition of The New York Times, is turning increasingly to money and sex to survive:

“Money is one way Atlantic City is fighting back [against the growing casino gambling competition], sex another.”

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Please refer to the article, “Is tax-exempt LVH sharing enough of its wealth?,” by reporters Tim Darragh and Ann Wlazelek, published in yesterday’s and today’s editions of The Morning Call.

This is only the latest of a series of articles published by The Call on the subject of Lehigh and Northampton counties’ non-profit hospitals, involving retired Lehigh County Judge Robert Young as regards the Lehigh County non-profits and should involve the former non-profit Easton Hospital, now a for-profit facility owned by the Community Health Services Corporation of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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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.

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Last August when Bethlehem City Council in a split-decision vote of 4-3 put casino gambling in the Moravian Christmas City on temporary life support, Councilwoman Jean Belinsi delivered her hand-wringing, hair-pulling rational of why she cast her vote for life support: Without casino gambling, Bethlehem could not repay $150 million it owes the federal government for Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds the city received for low- to moderate-income projects such as housing but spent instead on “economic development” in tax exemptions and other subsidies to developers like Joe Posh and Louis Pektor.

Most of these corporate welfare handouts came in the form of tax increment financing, or TIF, that diverted tax revenue from the city’s coffers and into the pockets of the developers.

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Please refer to article, “War over park’s fate a lengthy history of battles,” published in today’s edition of The Express-Times.

Reporter Courtney Lomax quotes former Nazareth Councilman and Mayor Elmer Yeakle as saying of the park’s deed restriction, “It’s [the deed restriction] is not there illegally.  It was approved to be there by the people who controlled the deed.”

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On the snowy evening of January 3, 2005, Easton resident and Billy Bytes publicationss’ founder Billy Givens, accompanied by his friend John Todaro of Palmer Township, attended the year’s first meeting of Northampton County Council.

The meeting was held in the county seat of historic Easton’s Jacob Bachmann Publick House.

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Because the governmental seat of Northampton County is Easton, Pennsylvania, lawyers a concentration of shyster infest the city like colonies of cockroaches.

Not a single on of these carriers of corrupting contagion every challened the constitutionality of municipal ordinance or policy enacted by any municipality, from the county on down the tiniest township of borough.

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