In a previous post, I told how South Whitehall's Christina Morgan would be coming forward suggesting a referendum on Wehr's Dam. Last night, as if on cue, she made her backdoor suggestion, hoping to help the Wildlands still demolish the icon. Also in a previous post, I mentioned that the Allentown Parking Authority presents contrived surveys, to justify their rate hikes. Also on cue, that claim was made last night, to justify doubling the meter rate in Allentown. We were also told that tickets are only reluctantly given, to enforce rules which benefit everybody. As one who has often seen street sweeping tickets give out en masse, with no meaningful sweeping, I know better than that. We live in an area where bureaucrats can say and do as they please, with no scrutiny from the press. The bureaucrats are imbued with arrogance, thinking they know best, certainly much better than the dirty masses. The press is nine to five, satisfied to report what is said, with no need to know the real motives. The public, for the most part, is content with this diet of abridged news. On the national level, they're so conditioned to spin and attitude, that facts no longer count. Who cares if you have to pay $2 an hour to park on empty Hamilton Street on a Tuesday afternoon?
above reprinted from April 16, 2015
ADDENDUM APRIL 27, 2022:Although seven years have passed, I'm afraid reform is just an empty word used by some new faces in local governments. The Wildlands Conservancy still runs South Whitehall township. Allentown has a new administration on city hall's top floor, but the city is still run by the same Pawlowski entrenched goons on the lower floors. The Morning Call no longer has any floors, and uses the same opiners from yesteryear, rewriting their old insights. The city is populated by a shifting tide of immigrants from the New(s), that be Jersey and York...to them it does seem new, exciting and reformed.
Mike, Matt started off on the wrong foot by not doing a housecleaning in city hall. Perhaps those who really control the city informed him that wasn't in the cards. Matt is finding out running for mayor is one thing, actually being mayor is another. Matt seems rudderless, lacking vision, and unsure/unwilling to address the systemic and institutional problems that have made our city the blight area of the Lehigh Valley. Meanwhile our streets resemble a Mad Max film with dirt bikes, speeding loud cars, and unenforced traffic laws. I could go on but why bother.
ReplyDeletescott@7:26, although he may not realize it from my posts, I'm still keeping an open mind about Tuerk as a new mayor. Only four months in office, he has ample opportunity to make the necessary personnel changes for improvement.
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