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TIF Financing

It appears the BASD, City of Bethlehem, the Bethlehem Redevelopment Authority, and the County of Northampton are locked into a dispute over the financial arrangements of projects there on the south side of Bethlehem, were the Bethlehem Steel once produced steel for this great country.  We now have a Gambling Casino, Hotel on the site […]

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“Government serves a negative function to restrain the wicked, it has lost that element.”  That was the last sentence of my article
 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/rapid-decline/
I would like to pickup from there and continue on.  The social network made up of the citizens from these two different cities, the “City of God” and the “City of Earth”, have different […]

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We tend to lump politics into a general term which includes everything to do with government, establishment of law, the administration of justice and doing some kind of good through a government agency.  That phenomena is indispensible with the idealism of classical thinking regarding government and the Progressive Socialistic thinking of today, it fits perfectly […]

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I received the (see below) e-mail from PA. Rep. Rohrer’s blog site.  I could not agree more with Rep. Rohrer——from were I’m sitting it looks even worse.  So I will carry the situation one step further and say the local governments and school boards must start to feel the pinch on the money supply, within two […]

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Received this http://www.yourpabudget.com/ this morning 6/18/2010.
Looks like the Democrats have more political savvy then any of the Republicans in Harrisburg, PA.  They have a continual flow of liberal ideas coming in.  (see site above)  The Democrats know how to appease and guide the masses, while the Republicans can’t even give the allusion of wanting to […]

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Our government schools have been biased politically left for as long as I remember and I have a long memory. That would be about 55 years! Is it any wonder why our children are falling behind many of the third world countries in math, science, history and other important subjects needed to ready our youth […]

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Pa Representative Joe Sestak claims that it was former president Bill Clinton that called him in June of 2009, to offer him a position in the Whitehouse if he would not run against Arlen Specter for the Senate. Sestak claims that Whitehouse Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called upon Bill Clinton to make the call to Sestak. […]

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Politics as usual

For those of you outside of the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania, you may find this a little hard to follow but for those of you living and breathing local Lehigh County politics you will, at least I hope you do, find it easy to understand.
“My job is to win elections. Whoever’s handed to me on […]

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I have been having an on going discussion/battle with the Pa. Lehigh County Republican leadership as to what we thought would be corrective action for the party.  I have consistently said the Republican Party, on all levels, have lost their way and need to get back to principles that they once had and stood for.  […]

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One of the most exciting races in Pa is the one between Tom Corbett and Sam Rohrer. The other big race is between Toomey and winner of the Dem primary, which will be Sestak or Specter. Which is worse, Sestak who really believes in what he says or Specter who believes in nothing but winning? Not […]

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