tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post8475916644094400907..comments2024-03-29T05:10:57.942-04:00Comments on Lehigh Valley Ramblings: Opinions Online, 2/6/16Bernie O'Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-89936683839923683432016-02-14T17:20:42.722-05:002016-02-14T17:20:42.722-05:00I have always marveled at how hospitals can get te...I have always marveled at how hospitals can get tens of thousands of free volunteer work from young girls and guys (candy stripers) and little old(er) ladies manning gift shops while they spend millions on advertising, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-42641583756599424052016-02-07T17:24:06.231-05:002016-02-07T17:24:06.231-05:00http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania...http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-keystone-amendment-toomey-coal-20150121-story.html<br /><br />Here's an article from the Morning Call last January on the waste coal issue the commenter appears to be talking about. Most of the waste coal plants that exist are in PA, and it appears (from another source) that lead may be one of the contaminants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-52813927384342899232016-02-07T08:47:54.513-05:002016-02-07T08:47:54.513-05:00The "bypass" is fundamentally flawed sin...The "bypass" is fundamentally flawed since it has a sequence of traffic signals and 45mph instead of grade separation and higher speed limit. The Route 222 "bypass" was built to mitigate existing problems. Was NOT built to handle extra traffic generated by new uses such as the Hamilton Crossings regional shopping center and two warehouses on Millcreek Rd. <br /><br />The upgrades associated with Hamilton Crossings (paid for by taxpayers through TIF) represent band-aids. The end game is grade separation. And it will cost us. Both UMT and LMT jointly requested grade separation on last years LVTS.<br /><br />It's my understanding the original plans for the roadway called for a true bypass with grade separation. Then unfortunately at some point smart planning was circumvented by politicians, influential landowners and other powerful entities who benefitted from the land value increases associated with signalization.<br /><br />I do argue for development along the corridor of a certain type. Definitely not warehouses and mega shopping centers. The problem is the direct or adjacent access to the bypass via signals. The corridor should be the townships bread basket but in the way of local serving walkable, properly scaled, high quality, low impact neighborhood commercial and mixed use development along the Boulevard. In fact we have a whole corridor plan to encourage just that. <br /><br />What needs to happen is both the Boulevard and "Bypass" need to be de-stroaded. Today, the bypass and boulevard today are low value, dangerous and low ROI Stroads. But we are working to address. <br /><br />STROAD defined: http://www.ronbeitler.com/2014/12/12/rt-222-bypass-road-street-or-stroad/<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Ron Beitlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01733220566253915497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-29009384403906445982016-02-07T05:19:59.701-05:002016-02-07T05:19:59.701-05:00Good points Rich. the for profit health system in ...Good points Rich. the for profit health system in America has hospitals, drug companies and health Insurance companies spending millions on advertising, while providing expensive substandard health care.<br /><br />Time to remove the profit motive from medicine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-74775175720890534472016-02-06T16:39:12.939-05:002016-02-06T16:39:12.939-05:00Non-profits like churches and hospitals?
Which on...Non-profits like churches and hospitals?<br /><br />Which one of these "non-profits" is really a "non-profit"? Just because you spend all of your revenues does not make one a non-profit.<br /><br />Hospitals have money to advertise(?) on TV and billboards, why?<br /><br />The TV and billboard companies love that. The City could get some profit from running non-profit hospital ads on the billboards that are on the property that the Mayor leased and property that Abe Atiyeh's sold to the billboard companies.<br /><br />City Council has talked about taxing the hospitals. I don't feel we need to tax the churches.<br /><br />Can you compare hospitals and churches as non-profits?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16689614615334224597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-33853251283300617922016-02-06T14:07:58.026-05:002016-02-06T14:07:58.026-05:00Nothing will ever be done about non profits as lon...Nothing will ever be done about non profits as long as for profits exsist. .They the non profits are good and help people, the for profits do not! Everybody knows this, let us never raise this matter again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com