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  • Allentown Saved By A Cheeseburger









    This past week at the Job Forum in Washington, President Obama made it clear that he will use stimulus money to prevent state and local governments from adding to the unemployment figures. How Allentown got to lead off the [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2009, 10:43am EST

  • Obama Here In Allentown


    We who live Billy Joel's song, know that living here, and visiting here, are two different things. Obama's visit here yesterday cast Allentown in a favorable light. Mayor Ed Pawlowski did a good job representing the city, especially the previous evening on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris' [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 4:24am EST

  • Sports Memorabilia


    I believe that soon our memories of Bicentennial Park could be reduced to memorabilia. This blog expects the Administration to propose selling the ball-field to Lanta. It is my hope, that if this travesty is attempted, Allentonians step up to the plate. This field for youngster [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 4:12pm EST

  • Obama's Allentown Visit






    Mayor Pawlowski has shocked the Allentown business community, by announcing that President Obama will visit Nikita's Bar, in the 700 block of Turner Street. Allentown is the first stop on the President's White House to Main Street Tour. Pawlowski said it was [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2009, 7:02am EST

  • OPEN MIKE


    This posting is intended to provide an opportunity to comment on any topic, or on an earlier posting. [...]
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    Posted: November 28, 2009, 4:55am EST

  • Bernie's Court


    Although Bernie and the formal legal system partied company about twenty years ago, blogging has provided Mr. O'Hare with a much more suitable courtroom. In Bernie's new Court, Lehigh Valley Ramblings, he never loses. His methods are subject to no scrutiny from a higher authority.' [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2009, 5:00am EST

  • From The Future


    Alien friends of mine have provided me with both a photo and news from the future. Pawlowski announces in early 2010 that he has sold Bicentennial Park to Lanta, and the Park Maintenance Facility (on Linden Street across from stadium) to Muhlenberg College. molovinsky on allentown [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 6:16am EST

  • Selling Easton's Soul





    Business, in the center cities of the Lehigh Valley, is a fragile thing at best. Even Bethlehem, considered the most successful, is more charm than dollars. Essentially, these prior centers of commerce have been reduced to three separate economies. The upscale restaurants serve [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2009, 5:14am EST

  • Sympathy For The Devil


    I suspect that if you engage a search engine with the words Nick Balzano and sympathy, this post will be the lone ranger. Nick became, overnight, a human pinata. The band bashing him, had to add additional wagons. I don't mind offering some defense to someone' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:14am EST

  • Penny Wise, Grant Foolish


    When the monster, aka Allentown Parking Authority, tutored Lanta about grants, they destroyed Hamilton Street in the process. Lanta was able to harvest a federal grant and provide the last portion of the financing necessary to built the terminal/parking deck at 6th and Linden Streets in [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:17am EST

  • Museum Pimps Park


    I suppose the difference between a whore and a call girl, or a john and a client, is one of wealth and sophistication. Here in Allentown, many of our institutions have the same small circle of people on their boards and at their fund raisers. Some [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:30am EST

  • Monster Changes Diet


    The Monster, The Allentown Parking Authority, is changing it's diet. I held a news conference* in the fall of 2005 questioning why parking meters still existed at 10th and Chew Streets. Perhaps appropriate in the 1950's , they are now five blocks and fifty years beyond [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:55am EST

  • Yes We Can


    Yes, we can use you for a metaphor, because everybody knows

    Well we're living here in Allentown / And they're closing all the factories down

    What an inspirational, TelePrompTer speech we're in for. While the local Democratic leadership smile ear to ear, the' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 5:52am EST

  • Sal Panto Slow Learner


    Easton's Mayor Panto fascinates me. This retread, he was Mayor before, doesn't seem to learn. Although Allentown destroyed it's business district by moving the buses, Sal insists on doing the same. Although the new location for the terminal/parking deck is an improvement over the previous absurd' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:21pm EST

  • Fixing What We Broke












    During the controversy over the Cedar Park Plans, much discussion centered on the need for Riparian Buffers. These are usually deliberate plantings to restore a stream bank to a natural state. Many advocates for the new [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:22am EST

  • The New Bloggers



    One thing about the blogosphere, with the cost of operation, free, it's always expanding. There are several new blogs I would like to bring to the attention of both my readers. By now, both of you have probably noticed that I added a blog link' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 1:57pm EST

  • A Sacred Cow


    If there was ever a town that doesn't need Habitat For Humanity, its got to be Allentown. CAUTION, THOSE WITH INCURABLE POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, DO NOT CONTINUE READING. Allentown currently boasts the newest public housing in the nation, plus block after block of sub-prime defaults. Back in' [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 12:36pm EST

  • The Wage of Fame


    As a young man in the mid 1930's, Abe Simon worked summers as a life guard at Coney Island. Girls would pretend to be drowning to meet the 6'5" hunk. The former high school star athlete was recruited to boxing by Jock Whitney, future Ambassador to" [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 6:38am EST

  • The Apartment Myth


    Over and over, people contribute Allentown's problems to center city houses being converted to apartments, as if this occurred recently. Many will be surprised to know that almost all the converted apartments existed for over 60 years. When the GI's returned from WW2, the trend was [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:20am EST

  • SmileBoy and the Christians


    Yesterday, fellow blogger Bernie O'Hare patted the blogosphere on the back for it's election coverage. Bernie did provide much information, but some with much more bias than he may concede. I found his coverage of the Cunningham/Ott church housing situation so spinning, I got dizzy reading [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:22am EST

  • Brain Transplant Complete


    The City of Allentown has successfully removed, through an innovative laparoscopic procedure, all brain tissue from it's voters. Any brain cells remaining from the previous election in 07, were removed via the ear canal at the designated voting stations. This success at the municipal level has' [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:12am EST

  • County Executive Race

    WRITTEN BY SCOTT ARMSTRONG

    If you are looking for a political contest that pits a crude political animal against a person of good intention the contest for Lehigh County executive is for you. Don Cunningham the incumbent, a career politician, is seeking re-election with a campaign based on half [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:22pm EST

  • Voters Needed




    Although a mayoral year in Allentown, the turn out for Tuesday's election may be light. Are the voters dissatisfied with Pawlowski enough to come out and support Phillips? If their not motivated by the top of the ticket, will they come out for the' [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 4:47am EST

  • Media and Democracy


    In 2005, mayoral candidate Ed Pawlowski gave a press conference at a house in the 400 block of Liberty Street. He praised the renovated house being occupied, as typifying his vision of Allentown moving forward. The Morning Call reporter, Daryl Nerl, wrote a glowing story. I [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 6:12am EDT

  • 2005 Campaign Revelation

    In 2005, when I ran for Mayor, I felt that my campaign was suppressed by the Morning Call reporter, Daryl Nerl. Now, four years later, Mr. Nerl and I discussed this subject yesterday at O'Hare's Ramblings. I have posted about this at Poliblog. Although I will accept no comments [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:39am EDT

  • Lost Treasures of Allentown


    The Boat Landing Project has been completed. A total of nine different people worked on two separate occasions to clear away almost forty years of neglect and reveal this gift from the WPA. Although everybody deserves recognition, without the energy and enthusiasm of Chris Casey, [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 8:27am EDT

  • Prolonging the Pain


    Over the weekend, Morning Call reporters Renshaw and Baxter shined the spotlight on State Act 44, which allows municipalities the option of extending the payment schedule on pension contributions. Locally, only Allentown's Mayor Pawlowski seeks to take advantage of this election time ploy, recently crafted' [...]
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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 4:05am EDT

  • Allentown Parks, The Real Deal


    Separating the truth from myth about the Allentown Parks isn't easy. Although there is no question that by the early 1940's we had one of the finest park systems in the country, how it got to be that way has become clouded by the largeness of [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2009, 4:00am EDT

  • In The Jungle, The Mighty Jungle


    This coming November 3th, Allentown will have the opportunity to restore the Lion to the sleepy City Council. Without Hershman, the new Council will provide no checks and balances, what-so-ever, to the Administration's version of government.

    Lou Hershman is a one man thorn' [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 5:35am EDT

  • Loose Ends At Boat Landing


    I once again need help to finish up the Boat Landing project. The goal is to simply remove the remaining dirt at the bottom of the steps and provide both the citizens and the City a finished project. Although the original landing extended both to the [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:49pm EDT

  • Main Street Program


    This past Saturday, long time Allentonians could only shake their heads reading the news. Because of budget cuts in Harrisburg, plans "to launch a Main Street Program on Hamilton Street that would duplicate the rejuvenation of neighborhood businesses along Seventh Street" have been postponed. Of [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 4:05am EDT

  • Losing Our Parks


    Anybody who owns farmland knows that if you don't plant it, you must still mow it once a year, or lose it to saplings and trees. The effort to clear the land by our forefathers was enormous, but necessary to feed our growing country. In the' [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 9:18am EDT

  • Road Warrior Spills Beans


    Craig Friebolin has a bone to pick with the Allentown Parking Authority. It was my pleasure to publicize his plans to crash one of their board meetings. His ears should pick up as he reads this post. Today Dan Hartzell, the Morning Call's Road Warrior,' [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 2:37pm EDT

  • WFMZ Stairs to NoWhere







    STAIRS TO NOWHERE [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:09am EDT

  • Explanation from WFMZ


    "We don't post all of our stories to the website, however it has
    been brought to our attention that several people are requesting to see
    this particular story. We have passed that information on to our web
    producers and they will be adding it at some'" [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 4:39am EDT

  • Was Parkway Story Squashed?


    When I saw the story on the 5 O'clock news, I realized I would need no tuxedo for the Emmy's, but they did cobble together a short piece and air it. A friend who stays up very late, emailed me that the segment did not appear [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 7:42am EDT

  • Just Got The Call


    69 WFMZ TV is going to do a short blip on the Boat Landing excavation in Lehigh Parkway this evening.
    [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 3:58pm EDT

  • TeNSion in BLoGOsphERE



    Despite the best efforts of some well intended intermediaries, there still exists tension in the local blogosphere. Bernie O'Hare goes banana's when I write about events I didn't attend, and he did! So here's another one Bernie, don't slip on the peel. According to [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 5:40am EDT

  • Allentown's Park Plans


    Allentown's park plans can best be described as schizophrenic. What made our parks so iconic was the visual contrasts between the woods, open spaces and the water. We are now getting the worse of everything. The streams will be hidden by plants, called riparian buffers. The' [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:08pm EDT

  • Trexler Smiles, Landing Revealed


    I believe that today, for the first time in decades, General Trexler had something to smile about. Most people never understood why three steps were near the lower entrance of Lehigh Parkway; they seemed to lead nowhere. This morning eight people joined a grass root effort [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 2:57pm EDT

  • Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pa.


    This was the scene which was chosen to represent Allentown's parks during the golden era of picture postcards, circa late 1940's. The card is captioned simply, Lehigh Parkway, Allentown, Pa.. Shown at the park entrance, it was called the lower entrance, was the magnificent Boat Landing.*' [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 5:01am EDT

  • Allentown's Love Canal


    The phone rang at midnight last night, it was Dan Mest, neighborhood activist in the St. Paul's area. Dan's one of those guys you don't hear that much about, but if you live in center city, your life's better because of him. The Jackson Street Playground [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:23am EDT

  • Second Job


    Advertising revenues have been down here at molovinsky on allentown, so I've taken a temporary second job at The Lehigh Valley Political Blog. How long they will keep me on there remains to be seen. At any rate, you're welcome to visit me there anytime.[...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 6:27am EDT

  • Heavyweight Championship of the World


    On March 21, 1941, my mother's cousin Abe Simon, son a of Jewish egg and butter salesman, fought Joe Louis for the title in Detroit. Lasting 13 rounds, he earned another title shot against the Brown Bomber a year later in Madison Square Garden. After retiring [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 4:26pm EDT

  • Our History Discarded


    One of General Trexler's first land donations to the City of Allentown was some acreage along the Little Lehigh. He wanted to make sure that the quality of the water supply for the city was protected. The above photograph shows one of first things built in' [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 2:35pm EDT

  • Save A Treasure


    Yesterday I had an amazing experience, following the footsteps of Andrew Kleiner, I decided to research the WPA items at the Lehigh Valley Historical Society; like Andrew, I found that particular documentation lacking. But, from out of nowhere, an elderly lady handed me a photo from [...]
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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 2:20pm EDT

  • Figment Of My Imagination


    Dear Mayor Pawlowski,
    Forgive me for saying this, but I'm very disappointed in the changes made to my town. After my wife passed away, I moved to the senior high-rise at 8th and Union St. I can see the old Mack Transmission Plant from my window,' [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 7:39pm EDT

  • Simon Fearless Against Bomber


    The 1941 June edition of Ring Magazine featured the Abe Simon vs Joe Louis fight in March. Editor-writer Nat Fleischer was in awe of Simon's courage against the unbeatable Brown Bomber. Fleischer wrote "They (fans) saw Abe Simon give the Bomber the greatest battle he has" [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 7:58pm EDT

  • The General Gently Weeps


    General Trexler died in an automobile accident in 1933; had he lived a few more years and seen the completed WPA Projects throughout Allentown's Parks, it would have made him very happy. How he would feel about the go-kart track at Cedar Park is another question.[...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 7:53pm EDT

  • $100 a Week


    In 1935, a Jewish boy earning $35 a week carrying 300 pound blocks of ice, was offered three times more to fight; win, lose or draw. For one hundred dollars a week, Jock Whitney, British aristocrat and sportsman, owned Abe Simon. Abe won his first 14 [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 5:45am EDT

  • Cedar Fair Midway


    Unfortunately this post isn't about the Cedar Fair which owns Dorney Park, it's about the City of Allentown and Cedar Creek Park. Citizens who attended the City Council Park Meeting on Aug. 13th were told that the park plan was a living, breathing work in progress. [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 9:19pm EDT

  • The Monster's Bounty


    The Parking Authority, beside the prison, is the only growth industry in Allentown. Donny Cunningham, who is a little Eddie Rendell in training pants, wants some of the monster's loot. The Authority writes over 100,000 tickets a year, mostly to low income center city residents and [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 6:12am EDT

  • The Blogger










    We here in the Valley are blessed to have the THE BLOGGER EXTRAORDINAIRE to both inform and conform us. Tirelessly attending one meeting after another, five nights a week at the midnight hour he bestows praise upon the [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 10:16am EDT

  • OPEN MIKE


    This posting is intended to provide an opportunity to comment on any topic, or on an earlier posting. [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 5:04am EDT

  • Getting Carpentered


    There are many politico's who would rather not hear Paul Carpenter's voice on the other end of the phone. A few told me in the past they hoped not to be "Carpentered", meaning they didn't know if they would end up being flattered or battered until' [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 6:53am EDT

  • Parking Authority Preys On Poor


    Although the shopping district in Allentown has shrunk down to only Hamilton and 7th Streets, the meter district remains as it did during the heydays of the 1950's. The meters extend from Walnut to Chew, from 5th to 10th, well over 1000 meters in 20 sq.' [...]
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    Posted: September 19, 2009, 8:49pm EDT

  • More Parlor Tricks by O'Hare


    The blog dispute occurring between Bernie O'Hare and myself will certainly not be one of the posts which I repeat in a year or so, it's somewhat embarrassing. However, it is necessary for me to use this venue to set the record straight; Bernie now [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • New Graveside Tears


    In August of 08, after about a year of blogging on conditions at Fairview, The Morning Call ran the story shown above. I did manage to organize a small meeting between the cemetery operators and the public later that fall. Yesterday I received the following comment, [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 3:22am EDT

  • O'Hares Bag of Tricks


    This morning when I read The Morning Call, I knew Bernie O'Hare
    would be blaming everybody but Tony Phillips. Bernie keeps pulling the same tricks out of the bag. He gets away with it by pummeling the commentators who disagree, and intimating the' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 12:51pm EDT

  • The Final Crack


    Tony Phillip's candidacy suffered another crack today; The Morning Call revealed that the infamous internet chat was really with a former mistress posing as a fresh item. Although Tony tried to do some damage control, even blogger Bernie O'Hare won't be able to put him' [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 5:19am EDT

  • More Weeding, Less Talking


    From the archives, July 31,2007
    Allentown has a few icons, such as the PPL Tower, the 8th Street and Tilghman Street Bridges. In Europe many bridges date from the middle ages, there are even Roman bridges still in use. It seems here in Allentown we cannot [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 3:51am EDT

  • Saints and Sinners


    This blog has a little tabloid in it; I'm not above using a racy photograph or catchy titles. There is an interesting story in today's Morning Call* about the Rev. William Kuntze, who refused to compromise his principles over an offered contribution from the Sands Casino.' [...]
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    Posted: September 12, 2009, 10:15am EDT

  • Stupid Is As Stupid Does


    This past May I conducted my fifth in a series of town hall meetings which I call Allentown Speak Out. This one concentrated on the parks and Bicentennial Field. With 30 plus people in attendance, I asked Tony Phillips what he could do for us; he [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 6:53am EDT

  • Tough Crowd


    Lately I've been thinking a lot about my mother's cousin Abe Simon. After knocking out Jersey Joe Walcott he got a shot at Louis and the title in March of 41. Louis knocked him down in the first round and Abe took the 8 count grinning.' [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 5:45am EDT

  • King of the Gypsies


    According to my mother, a Gypsy king was buried in Allentown in around 1960, she knew about such things. She was born in Galgo, Hungary, an area of Transylvania, now part of Romania, near present day Gilgau. In Galgo, the Jews and Gypsies lived on the [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2009, 5:16am EDT

  • Relics Of Our Past


    One of the surviving relics of our industrial past is the right of way of former railroad spur lines. Allentown literally had hundreds of factories serviced by dozens of spur routes and rail sidings. The area between Second and Front Streets was crisscrossed with dozens of [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 9:14pm EDT

  • Beating World's Smallest Horse


    Last night I attended the fair. This morning's Morning Call has a feature called Midway Callaway. It's about making cotton candy while wearing rubber gloves, putting it into a plastic bag and selling it behind a glass window. Brian (Callaway), that's not cotton candy, that's not [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 5:44am EDT

  • An Unauthorized Interview


    There is a nice little authorized interview with Greg Weitzel, Director of Parks, on Andrew Kleiner's blog. (www.rememberkleiner.blogspot.com) Here is an unauthorized one, maybe even worse. This morning at the Rose Garden, after Weitzel generously afforded me some time, he asked if our conversation would be [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 11:18am EDT

  • The Mighty Atom


    Years ago, at the Allentown Fair, as one would push through a sea of carney delusion, tucked back by the 4H animals, was an island of reality. There, in an old battered truck, an ancient Jewish strongman performed incredible feats of strength, to sell only homemade [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 5:12am EDT

  • The King has Abdicated


    In 1958 my father had a food stand at the fair. It took him about an hour to realize you can not sell hot dogs in the King's back yard; Yocco, the hot dog king. When Yocco's claimed last year they were not at the fair [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 4:33am EDT

  • Conclusion Of Water Thieves


    GUEST POST BY ROB HAMILL
    -Percy Dougherty is the chairman of the Lehigh County Commisioners. He has a PHD in geology and hydrology, and knows the Little Lehigh Aquifer probably better than anyone. From conversations, he is appalled by the well drilling on the banks of [...]
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    Posted: August 28, 2009, 7:32am EDT

  • Water Thieves In Our Community

    GUEST POST BY ROB HAMILL, PART 1

    In the Winter edition #5 of the L.V. commentator, we broke a story about Lehigh County Authority’s(LCA) plan to drain the Little Lehigh Creek for the benefit of the bottling plants in Fogelsville. The story outlined the very real harm in using [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 5:39pm EDT

  • Best By Test


    Growing up in Little Lehigh Parkway, now called Little Lehigh Manor by the Realtors, the milkman was an early morning fixture. Almost every house had the insulated aluminum milkbox. The milk trucks were distinctive, and the drivers wore a uniform, indicative of their responsibility. Freeman's milk' [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 5:27am EDT

  • Greg Weaver Art Scene


    For about ten years, mid 70's to 80's, Allentown was graced with a one man art machine. Gregg Weaver studied at Carnegie Mellon and then returned to the Valley to become artist, promoter and inspiration to dozens of local artists. His large studios, which moved from [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 5:40am EDT

  • A Trained Seal


    Although the Wildlands Conservancy is supposedly concerned about the stream health of the Little Lehigh, I haven't heard anything from them about the County's plan to drill two wells next to the creek in Lower Macugnie. Residents of Western Lehigh County, while pumping out their basements' [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 2:28pm EDT

  • Park And Shop


    Downtown Allentown boomed for about 100 years. During the prosperity years following World War II, the two car family emerged. Several business leaders of Allentown realized both the parking problem and the potential to enhance sales. Park and Shop was begun by Harvey Farr, Donald Miller [...]
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    Posted: August 21, 2009, 2:24pm EDT

  • Apology to Pawlowski and Weitzel

    In the previous post I accuse Pawlowski and Weitzel of switching words, but building the same structure. A visit to the Garden reveals that they have indeed scaled back the plan and are building a curved stone trestle type construction in it's place. For the sake of pride, I would [...]
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    Posted: August 20, 2009, 3:12pm EDT

  • Administration Minces Words


    The Boardwalk hucksters selling vegematic choppers would have been proud of Pawlowski and Weitzel last week. They convinced the citizens and media that they heard the people and modified the plans. Weitzel droned on for 45 minutes with his power point about the living document known [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 3:48am EDT

  • Jerry and the Cookie Lady


    I'd usually pull in around 6:30 a.m., Jerry had the coffee made and maybe a deputy sheriff or two had already arrived. Downtown is nice in the early morning, most of the unsavory characters are not early risers. Jerry had opened the coffee and cold sandwich' [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 3:58am EDT

  • Silence of the Lanta


    Hannibal Lecter has been offered parole on the condition he restrict his diet to Hamilton Street bus riders. Once a month he will be permitted an Asian merchant; on thanksgiving he may have a preselected blogger. Mr. Lector will be micro-chipped and given a new Hamilton [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 2:31am EDT

  • The Promised Playground


    Creating a playground as a destination for children with special needs is an enormous responsibility. In different posts on this blog I have mentioned some of the issues. I had also privately contacted several members of City Council with these concerns in more detail. That debate [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 7:01pm EDT

  • The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly


    Last night, outside the jammed City Council Chamber, I could hear the fat lady singing from her secret location. Upon arriving I had navigated my way past the protesters against segregation, discrimination and for inclusion. Being the opposition poster boy, their stares lowered my body temperature [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 6:00am EDT

  • Going To The Well


    As the citizens trudge to the well for the fourth time, still looking for relief from this ill-advised park plan, they carry the extra burden of today's article in The Morning Call. The article is a time line which gives the mistaken impression that the opponents [...]
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    Posted: August 13, 2009, 5:21am EDT

  • Tip For Snooks


    The sign in the photo comes from the crybaby immigrant who operated the diner at 9th and Linden. He had heard stories that if he came to America, worked hard and saved his money, this was the land of opportunity. The snook thought when he bought [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 5:40am EDT

  • Line In The Sand


    It's hard to come out against a playground. A mother who speaks regularly at City Council keeps referring to when children with disabilities were kept locked up in institutions. The Mayor's wife recommended that mothers bring their children and signs to influence the media and City [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 3:56pm EDT

  • Cedar Park and The Shadow Mayor


    Yesterday I introduced you to my new alter-ego; Who knows what shenanigans lurk in the corridors of City Hall- The Shadow Mayor knows! My information comes from the blogosphere, back channel sources and until very recently, posing as a janitor at City Hall; the recent layoff of [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 10:33am EDT

  • Letter From The Shadow Mayor


    Dear neighbors of Cedar Creek Park,
    Since of the quality of your life and the value of your property is about to take a serious hit, I would like to blame all of your anxiety on misinformation. I can assure you that these plans had intensive [...]
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    Posted: August 07, 2009, 9:01pm EDT

  • The Two Professors Fail

    There are two college professors on City Council, and last night they both failed the public. I intended on addressing a posting about Michael D'Amore, Council President, in a few days. Both our professors are Michael's, so I will be using last names. D'Amore, through procedural shenanigans, was attempting to' [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 8:49pm EDT

  • Park Plan Proceeds


    City Council this evening demonstrated that they do not have the will to stop the Cedar Park Plan. Had they been so disposed, they could have turned the Citizen Petition into a motion, suspended the rules, and passed it under the Emergency Ordinance Clause of the [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 11:08pm EDT

  • Stop The Bulldozer


    City Council will meet this evening to consider several proposals and resolutions. It is good that they want to go through legislative procedures to prevent this "misunderstanding" about the parks from occurring in the future, but in the meantime the patient is bleeding to death on [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:00am EDT

  • Three Ring Circus


    In the last few weeks much has been said about the Destination Playground. The opposition centers around the scope of the project. There is no debate about our children needing playgrounds, especially those with special needs. The question is where should they be, and how large. [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 5:52am EDT

  • Citizen Initiative Under HomeRule Charter

    SECTION 1010
    CITIZEN'S RIGHT TO PLACE AN ITEM ON THE CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
    A. The qualified voters of the City of Allentown, upon receipt of a petition by the City Clerk, may
    enter one agenda item on the regular agenda of City Council.

    B. The' [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

  • Neglect Has It's Reward 2








    A lead story, in today's Morning Call, is titled "Pawlowski aggressive in fight against blight"; that's a fair statement, but besides being aggressive, is he being effective or constructive? That's another fair question. I have learned that the landlord issue [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 9:18am EDT

  • Mayor's Wife Plays Hardball

    Lisa Pawlowski, wife of Mayor Ed Pawlowski, is circulating the following email;

    Saturday, July 18, 2009 6:59:11 PM

    Playground at Cedar Beach

    Greetings,

    I am writing to drum up some support for a playground at Cedar Beach Park . There are already plans for a big, [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 10:20am EDT

  • Jeanette At Bat


    This past Tuesday evening over 70 Allentownians gathered in Council Chambers to express their dissatisfaction with the Cedar Creek Park Plans. There is a special bond between long term residents of this community and our nationally recognized park system. We see the park as perfection of [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 8:52pm EDT

  • Can Phillips Unwrap the Present ?


    Tony Phillips, who thus far has offered little as a candidate, didn't even seem to realize the present he was handed last night. Over seventy people filled Council Chambers to vent their outrage over plans to remake our beloved Cedar Creek Park. Mayor Pawlowski, who was' [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 5:51am EDT

  • Park Assault Unreported


    On July 15th, thirteen of fourteen citizens, including a direct descendent of General Trexler, told City Council that the new recreational based plans for Cedar Park would be an assault on their quality of life. All lamented the overuse of the park, and the total disregard [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 9:20am EDT

  • Weigh In On 1948


    1948 was a good year for Allentown and the Lehigh Valley. Mack Trucks, Lehigh Structural Steel, General Electric and almost all factories were going full steam. President Truman stopped by to give a speech. The Allentown Cardinals played the first game in their new ballpark, Breadon [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 10:02am EDT

  • Phillips Serves Up Weitzel


    This coming Tuesday evening, July 28th at 6:30 pm., Tony Phillips will be serving up Greg Weitzel in the Council Chambers, but it won't be a fresh meal. Tony, as Chairman of the Parks and Recreation Committee, wants Weitzel to explain the park plans, and for' [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 2:23pm EDT

  • Plaza Growers Market


    Every Wednesday at lunch time, 11:30 to 1:30, find a small, but interesting mix of local growers and food vendors at the PPL Plaza, 9th and Hamilton Streets. The market also provides live entertainment by some of the better known local musicians.

    photocredit: molovinsky[...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
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