Lehigh Valley Conservative

The politic arena is about to heat up locally as the folks position themselves for the Spring Primary’s. For some it is there first time while others seasoned politicians think they know exactly what to do, holding their first political events.
Folks like myself who from time to time will get embroiled in an issue, […]

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Today’s churches are filled with emotionalism and feel good religion—-with shallow teaching’s regarding the Doctrines and laws of God. Today’s Pastors refuse to acknowledge the weakness of their theology and therefore do not realize how weak the church is.
In the age of enlightenment and supposed reason without the Holy Scriptures we have little way, […]

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The election and how it turned out does not sit well with a large percentage of the American citizens who happen to have voted for Romney. The conservative talk show hosts are also showing their hostility toward President Obama with their comments, and with their tones of verbal conversation used—-generally having negative implications——–addressing the issues […]

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I went to the Lehigh County PA. Commissioners meeting last night. (10/24/2012) They were to vote on the county budget and of course there was controversy surrounding the budget and the process. The two sides formulated there position around one having a spending increase with a one time rebate being given back to the tax […]

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Tuesday (9/25/2012) evening 6:30 PM–was the Lehigh County Republican Committee meeting and I (as a committeeman) had just put in a long day of walking the halls of Harrisburg Pa. in support of HB 1776 (the school property elimination act) but I was faithful enough to want go to the county meeting—-why—-because I wanted to […]

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Has anybody read the article in the MC about the financial scandal with the BASD?
Well, it seems that LIBOR, (London Inter-Bank Offered Rate), inflated and supressed their international interest rates which caused the BASD to lose a bunch of the taxpayers money. But that’s not all! JP Morgan and the Bank of America was involved! […]

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I was at the Bethlehem (PA) Area School District (BASD) finance meeting last night (4/30/2012). The school board voted on the preliminary budget and to approve the 4.84% increase in school property tax to cover the budget short fall and lack of revenue. Their budget for the 2012-13 year is $212,158,344.00 an approximate $6+million dollar […]

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“NCC (Northampton Community College) Trustee Nomination Stalls” Doug Graves 3/21/2012 Bethlehem Press article tells us much as to how things are being run. According to the article it appears the nomination of Ms. Leeson and Mr. Faccinetto, to the NCC board of trustees, ran into some rough waters with qualifications being reduced and no longer […]

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Monday evening February 27, 2012 Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) school board, with two board members absent voted 7-0 to approve the Keystone Realty deal. They voted, to hire the firm with tax payer’s money and to go after the tax payer property only because Keystone Realty felt and/or have determine the owners property assessment […]

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The Morning Call Newspaper Allentown, Pa. Front page carried this article. (See Link)
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-lehigh-county-reassessment-impact-20120220,0,4125394.story
The article “The Chips Fall in Lehigh County” by Samantha Marcus of the Morning Call February 21, 2012 had to do with how the Lehigh County is going to be affected by the property reassessment in the county.
I’ll be quoting a couple of […]

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