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Monday, May 12, 2025

Keegan Did Zrinski No Favor in NorCo Exec Race - Part II

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Late last week, I shared a picture that NorCo Council member Kelly Keegan posted on Facebook It included some of the Lehigh Valley's mos...
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Following the Money: Despite Her Flyers and Palm Cards, Taiba Sultana Claims She Neither Raised Nor Spent $ in Easton City Council Race.

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Last year, Easton City Council member Taiba Sultana ran an unsuccessful campaign for state representative against Bob Freeman. Her final rep...
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Following the Money: Ray Lahoud Sole Source in Successful Challenge to Patti Bruno For NorCo Council

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Though she has managed several political contests and should know better, Patti Bruno was removed from the ballot in this year's at-larg...
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Following the Money: Who Funded Attack Ads Against Willie Reynolds and Hillary Kwiatek?

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Pre-primary campaign finance reports were due on Friday. They are designed to tell you who is funding a candidate and what he or she is doin...
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Friday, May 09, 2025

Keegan Did Zrinski No Favor in NorCo Exec Race

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Earlier this week, I took NorCo Council member Kelly Keegan to task for complaining about the "spandex ass" of a woman who dared t...
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Rumor: Former Republican DOJ Att'y Ponders Run in Pa. 7 ... as a Democrat!

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Ryan Croswell is one of a bevy of DOJ lawyers who have resigned rather than do Donald Trump's bidding. His resignation accompanied a de...
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Thursday, May 08, 2025

Should NorCo's Pension Board Follow Lehigh's Lead and Stop Investing in TESLA?

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Let me first thank the reader who posted a comment with a link to a story indicating that, at the suggestion of Lehigh County Controller Mar...
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AI Rates Safety in Bethlehem, Easton and Allentown

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I think we'd all agree that, of the Lehigh Valley's three cities, Bethlehem is considered safest and Allentown the least. What does ...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Entitled Kelly Keegan Upset By "Spandex Ass" Blocking Her View at Bernie Sanders Rally

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Over the weekend, US Senator Bernie Sanders took his Fighting Oligarchy Tour to LU's Stabler Arena. I wanted to go and signed up for a t...
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Bethlehem's FOP Endorses Bethlehem Mayor Willie Reynolds

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  During political campaigns, politicians love to brag about endorsements from ... other politicians. Frankly, endorsements from former Sena...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Pa Dems Are Neutral in the Cozze- Zrinski Race For NorCo Exec, But Allow Both To Use Their Postal Permit

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 As election day draws closer, mailboxes are getting more and more mailers every day. Today I got two. One was from Jeremy Clark, who is run...
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Sultana's Defamation Suit Against Critical PAC To Be Argued Today

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At this time last year, Easton City Council member Taiba Sultana was running against State Rep. Bob Freeman. He's been in office a mille...
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Monday, May 05, 2025

Guess Who's Behind the Negative Mailers in This Year's LV Races?

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Over the past week or so, Lehigh Valley mailboxes are getting loaded with mailers from candidates seeking local office. There have also been...
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NorCo Voters Have Requested 23,620 Mail-in-Ballots Thus Far

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At last night's NorCo Council meeting, Executive Lamont McClure reported that voters have requested 23,620 mail-in-ballots (MIB) so far....
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Friday, May 02, 2025

NorCo Using CDBG Funds to Help Local Food Banks Impacted by Federal Cuts

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As part of President Donald Trump's attempt to rein in federal spending, the US Dep't of Agriculture has cut $1 billion in funding  ...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Cozze and Zrinski Trade Blows in Fiery NorCo Exec Debate

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On Monday evening, Lehigh Valley News, aka PBS39, aka WLVR, aka Lehigh Valley Public Media, hosted a debate between Democratic NorCo Exec ca...
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Lackawanna County Sends Wrong Mail-in-Ballots to 545 GOP Voters

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Lackawanna County, as a result of what elections officials call a "printer's error," sent the wrong Mail-in-Ballot (MIB) to 5...
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NorCo Honors Its Outstanding Seniors

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Twelve seniors and one community group were honored yesterday by NorCo's Area Agency on Aging. I nominated myself several times, as I di...
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Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Bethlehem Mayoral Primary Debate Between Willie Reynolds and Grace Crampsie Smith

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I watched this debate, hosted by PBS last night, but want to watch it again. I thought both Willie and Grace were very well informed. She de...
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NorCo's County Council Primary

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Northampton County Council, established in the county's 1978 Home Rule Charter, is arguably its most powerful branch of government. In a...
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