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.”
Just as Northampton County Council has stopped a TIF tax exemption in Lower Nazareth Township, a judge has effectively stopped a slot machine gambling casino in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
I will be elaborating in comments to this post.
As we approach Halloween, I am presenting the skeleton of this post to frighten the public, as it will understand after it has read the article published in yesterday’s The Morning Call, “New Museum sought in easton by 2009.”
I will flesh out this skeleton in a later post when I have more time.
Sheldon G. Adelson, “chairman and chief executive of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, who ranks sixth on the Forbes Magazine list of the world’s billionaires,” as reported in today’s edition of The New York Times, in an article titled “Big Coffers and Rising Voice at Freedom’s Watch.”
Adelson is a creator of Freedom’s Watch, founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives. This group’s core members include besides Adelson Mel Sembler, a shopping center magnate based in St. Petersburg, Fla., headquarters of the Raymond James investment firm that underwrote the Northampton County, Pennsylvania (of which the city of Easton is the seat) illegal fiscal year 2001 $111 million general-obligation (meaning the county’s taxpayers pick up the tab) for courthouse, prison expansion, and “economic development.”
In a special to The Morning Call, a newspaper circulated in Easton, Pennsylvania, and the so-called “Lehigh Valley,” writer Angel R. Ackerman reports the “pull back” by Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, developer Louis Pektor, president of Ashley Development Company, of two projects, one in the city of Easton’s neighoring borough of Wilson and the other, called the “Majestic,” in Easton itself.
Pektor attributes the “pull back” to the declining market demand for luxury condominiums.
I call attention to two articles appearing in today’s Morning Call:
First,, “Easton mayor is LVEDC finalist,” reports that Mayor Phil Mitman is a finalist in the competition to become the next full-time executive director of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation.
The LVEDC is the granddaddy of the tax-exempt non-profit organizations like Lehigh Valley Industrial Parks (LVIP) that I exposed in my last post as “shadow governments.”
Yesterday’s (Sep. 10, 2007) edition of The Express-Times published an article by its City of bethlehem-beat reporter Kurt Bresswein titled “Saving Steel history online” (Steel meaning the defunct Bethlehem Steel Corporation that was operated and headquartered in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania).
Regrettable, and ironically, I can’t link the reader to Bresswein’s article because it was not published online.
According to the article, this history will be documented on a website created by Lehigh University located in Bethlehem, Lehigh Valley Industrial Park, Inc., the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park Coalition, the National Museum of Industrial History, a division of the Smithsonian Institute, and the Sands BethWorks Casino featuring slot-machine gambling
Museum trying to get back on track, according to the September 4, 2007, edition of The Express-Times.
The museum reporter Sara Satulla refers to is the New Jersey Railroad and Transportation Museum, a subject about which the www.billybytes.blog/com/ blog has written extensively.
Refer to The Express-Times article, published on August 10, 2007, and titled “Lawsuit threat won’t deter Riverwalk bids.”
The Riverwalk project is patently racist. When former world heavyweight boxing champion Easton resident Larry “the Easton Assassin” Holmes, an African-American, built two new buildings in downtown Easton’s flood plain, the city required him to fill in the building sites, raising them above the flood level, and also to construct the buildings without basements that would be subject to flooding.