Mar 13, 2023

Molovinsky On Anytown

I'm afraid that you my readers are going to be submitted to a little introspection. Let's say that my therapist threw in the towel, and that you're him/her for now. 

Allentown is no longer governed by native Allentonians. Oh, there's still a few on council, but their days are numbered. Mayor Tuerk took his crew to the Dominican Republic in year one,  and I expect more Caribbean trips.

Things look challenging for what was my main mission, the traditional park system with its WPA structures.  The new park director's background is in trails. When Pawlowski bailed out a developer by purchasing two brownfields, Basin Street and the old fertilizer plant, the excuse was connecting the parks... I called it connecting the neglect. She also has a background in trees and stormwater runoff. The Wildlands Conservancy, aka Woke Incorporated, pushes riparian buffers. They and the park department just ignore the reality that the storm sewer system goes UNDER those buffers, piped directly into the streams and creeks. The buffers serve no purpose but to block view and access to the water, and incubate invasive species.  Although I have done some good with my mission, I'm looking to pass the torch in these silver years. 

From Facebook we learn that the most enthusiasm for Allentown groups rests with nostalgia...which shops had the best cheesesteaks and chili sauce.  As a blogger on Allentown, I'm feeling more and more like Don Quixote fighting windmills. 

As a creature of habit, I'll still get up early and write, but perhaps the title will become Molovinsky On Anytown.

5 comments:

  1. Mike first of all the bail out was a corprate wellfare buy out than there is the issue of water.
    Same criminal element so conveluted that powo;ski will sit for these jokers hoping to get a pay off like the browne pay off we are seeing at a state level know. than there is the parks system that city water comes from via little lehigh. i havent ate a fish from city water ways for many years now yet I give them too people that will eat them with the terrible massage. City drinking water is reprehensible as PPM are in the unknown catagory that shoots up to unfit for human consumption.

    The story behind the story is anything to sell allentown as destination exterodinair. The thing we have now is the inmates are running the insain asylum with wokism as a failing montra to attract undesirables fleeing other criminal citys. this will bring more crime at a cost to all asspects of what was known as Allentown pa.

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  4. You can call it Molovinsky on Anytown, but we all know Allentown’s misguided leaders (past and present) will still be providing endless material.

    Speaking of which, I saw that Alan Jennings went on another of his unhinged, hyper-partisan rants in the local paper. While I don’t expect Jennings to change his spots, I fail to see how his viewpoint deserves any space in the Call.

    Instead of giving him a forum for his drivel, the paper would do better to examine his history of failure in “solving” Allentown’s poverty problem.

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  5. anon@7:11, The Call's editor keeps using the same three people for editorials,.. Jennings, Cunningham and Iannelli. Alternative opinions need not apply.

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