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.
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.
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.”
The latest version of the “Lehigh Valley,” created by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OM&B) on June 6, 2003, is racist - if not in intent, certainly in effect - as documented in the article by business reporter Gregory Karp in the June 22, 2003, edition of The Morning Call, one of two major mainsream newspapers in the so-called “Lehigh Valley.”
The Billybytes publications urge readers to obtain a copy of this astonishing article -astonishing even to veteran reporter Karp - to see how the OM&B, by manipulating statistical data from the year 2000 national census, has attacked minorities in urban centers like Newark, New Jersey, under the radar.
Use the Easton Parking Authority garage in the 300 block of Pine Street with caution.
The garage may be in a worse state of disrepair than that reported in today’s The Express-Times article “Price tag for garage maintenance: $482,435.”
This caution is supported by an earlier Express-Times article, dated December 11, 1995, titled “Easton Ponders garage warning.”
The tell-tale footprints evident at the site of Riverwalk are unmistakably those of Easton, Pennsylvania, lame-duck mayor Phil Mitman.
He follows in the footsteps of his immediate predecessor Tom Goldsmith. Just as Goldsmith used the Mayor’s position as a ladder to Pennsylvania’s Liquor Control Board, Mitman parlayed it into the executive directorship of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC).
I think it was the very next day after was discharged from the Veterans administration Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
I was driven there by my wife from our home in Easton, Pennsylvania, a journey that by car takes abouts and hour and a half.
Once again, as Halloween approaches, scary evidence that the city of Bethlehem is ripping off its taxpaying citizens jumps out from the pages of today’s edition of The Morning Call in the article titled “Butz [Alvin H. Butz Inc., a Bethlehem construction company] payback helps city finances,” filed by reporter Daryl Nerl, and sub-captioned “Developer’s $1.9 million dollar deal repays debt, offsets Bethlehem deficit.”
This article follows several recent articles by reporter Nerl exposing the corruption gripping Bethlehem, which bills itself to tourists as the “Christmas City,” for the reason that it was founded by the 18th-century Moravian religious leader, County Nicholas Von Zinzendorf.
On June 6, 2002, I appeared before Northampton County, Pennsylvania’s, council, the county’s governing body.
My purpose that evening was to declare war on the county, patterned after our federal government’s first insurrection, the Whiskey Rebellion of 1791.
Contrary to today’s Express-Times and its article captioned “Majestic ready to move on its development,” Majestic Realty of California is not ready to move at all.
The reason for this is the item directly below the caption: “Lawsuit causes delay in plans for 450 acres sold five years ago.”