The city of Easton, Pennsylvania, and Arcadia Properties, the private developer of Riverwalk, Northampton County, of which Easton is the governmental seat, the Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANTA),  the Easton Parking Authority (EPA), and the town of Phillipsburg, New Jersey, have attempted to dupe for personal and political gain the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission (DRJTBC).

At today’s meeting of the DRJTBC in Solebury, Pennsylvania, i and other Easton residents testified that all of these political jurisdictions have misappropriated local, state, and federal funds to finance the Riverwalk scheme, including funds inserted in U.S. Senate appropriations bill as earmarks by Appropriations Committee Chairman, Arlen Specter, and his former Senate colleague, Rich Santorum.

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Yes, Open the Books, Springtown, PA, we have been duped by Michael Perrucci and Sheldon Adelson, both principals of BethWorks Now, city of Bethlehem officials, NMIH President Steven Donches, Executive Director of Musikfest and ArtsQuest, and The Morning Call, as seen in the scholarly work of Sharon Ann Holt, titled “Report from the Field.”

BethWorks Now, consisting of the Sands Casino, Musikfest, ArtsQuest, and other venues, is Pennsylvania’s biggest fraud since the infamous Walking Purchase of 1737, when son Thomas of the commonwealth’s founder William Penn defrauded the Delaware and Lenape Indian tribe of hundreds of acres of land in Northampton County, including 315 acres in Forks Township, headquarters of the Binne & Smith Crayon Crayola Corporation.

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The Morning Call newspaper, whose main distribution area is Lehigh and Northampton counties, Pennsylvania, continues to conspire with the the officials of Northampton County in the construction of a Sands BethWorks slot machine gambling casino complemented by a luxury hotel, entertainment center, parking deck, and upscale shopping center, etc.

This ambitious project, which the Sands BethWorks developers have already scaled back,  lies  within the flood plain of the Lehigh River and wetland and directly in the path of storm-water runoff from South Mountain and the Lehigh University campus..

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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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This www.billybytes.com/blog post refers readers to the www.billybytes.com website article published April 17, 2005, titled “Fast Eddie.”

One year later, the billybytes publications’ creater and editor, Easton resident Billy Givens, was diagnosed in the U.S. Veterans Hospital in Wilkes-Barre with colon cancer with serious complications that imperiled - and still imperils - his life.
This diagnosis forced him to abandon his independent candidacy challenging incumbent Pennsylvania Governor Edward “Fast Eddie” Rendell in the November 2006 general election - a candidacy that he had announced the preceding February.

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Easton’s Lafayette College offers to help rescue the financially troubled Jacob Bachmann Publick House located in the city’s downtown neighborhood.

Northampton County, of which Easton is the seat, has assumed the bankrupt landmark building’s $550,000 debt through its General Purpose Authority (GPA).

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Compare meeting of January 3, 2005, of Northampton County Council meeting in Easton’s historic Jacob Bachmann Tavern and the FOS (Friends of Steel) report dated February 7, 2005.

At the January 3, 2005, county council meeting, I asked that body to conduct public hearings on the proposed Sands BethWorks Gaming LLC in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem on the site of the defunct Bethlehem Steel Corporation.

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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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