MOLOVINSKY ON ALLENTOWN

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has made its way into the Lehigh Valley... Last week Kelly Keegan in Northampton County, and this week in ...

After Iannelli recorded the Business Matters debate between Josh Siegel and Roger MacLean, there was some buzz about how acrimonious the sh...

The new pavilion at Cedar Park had a full house for the Lehigh County Democratic Committee picnic. I understand their enthusiasm, with the T...

When I was in high school we would drive the circuit. The circuit was from the Ritz at the fairgrounds down Hamilton Street to 6th Street,...

A Lehigh County Commissioner is blaming his arrest on the man . The commissioner, Cole-Borghi, claims that the charges and disclosure of suc...

Before I started this blog in 2007, I was a letter writer to the Morning Call. My letters were not well received, more often I heard back no...

In 2009 and 2010, myself and half a dozen volunteers dug out the Boat Landing, buried in the 1980's by a then long standing park directo...

The amount of news coverage and analysis of a doodle from one womanizer to another is distressing. With all the disruption of government ser...

In 1958 my father had a food stand at the fair. It took him about an hour to realize you cannot sell hot dogs in the King's back yard; Y...

Trump wants to rename the Department of Defense, the Department of War. Likewise, Allentown's Park Department should be the Department o...

In the last few years I revealed that I have been exploring Florida. Last year, I mentioned my low-rent office, inland from Cape Canaveral. ...

Morning Call columnist Bill White had a piece earlier in the week where he lamented that  Bobo the dunking clown was no longer at the fai...

In 2008, when the Rose Garden Ponds were being rebuilt, there was an annoying blogger complaining that the pond walls were undermined when t...

The other Sunday when Eddie Aviles put on a tie and canvassed with and for the local Republicans, I told someone that it could come back to ...

The title above is a play on words, and actually refers to Jackie Rivera, who will probably become a County Commissioner an easier way than ...

I'm seeing the New York Times story on Allentown's rebirth shared on Facebook by all the local cheerleaders. Although the article ...

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 reali...

The Morning Call website is hosting an archive of Fair Pictures from over the years. Being a fan both of fair pictures and black and whit...

As if there isn't enough events at Cedar Beach Park, the Park Department is now renting the park out to private promoters for even more ...

This blog did not take any overt positions on the recent primary election. Instead of profiling any candidate, I reprinted my piece on Emma ...

Over the years John Bolton has been called many things, mostly a hawk, but never disloyal to the country. He did however write and say that ...

Hurricane Diane hit the Lehigh Valley in August of 1955. Living in Little Lehigh Manor, I remember huddling in the house, while the meta...

Oct. 7th was atrocious, and Israel of course had the right to defend itself. The attack by Hamas was very low tech and a complete failure of...

You have to give Mike Schlossberg credit, he's not afraid to confront mental illness, in himself or his constituents. Recently, to atone...

I'm sure I don't know as much as I think I do about most things I write about, but with today's post, I know nothing. Dr. Google...

In 2012, I appeared on a Business Matters show about the upcoming arena and NIZ.  I and Steve Thode from Lehigh spoke against it, while seve...

Yes, I know that Jennings retired from Community Action, but there's a new sheriff in Dodge anyway. Gregory Edwards has grown his church...

Yesterday I went to the Social Security Office, across from the prison, to discuss my retirement options. I was given number 199. In additio...

Every time I hear Ryan Mackenzie say One Big Beautiful Bill , I cringe. Before its passage, he was astute enough to say that his support wo...

It seems odd to me that someone can fabricate a crime, and then get ARD for only admitting to it after DNA tests ruled out any other suspec...

No sooner than I announced last week that this blog was becoming a semiweekly, I had to bring out a special edition to break the story that ...

Besides the Trust, those who identify with the local establishment will take offense at this post, but I wasn't on their Christmas list ...

Nat Hyman filed a legal action against the city in regard to the homeless encampment by one of his buildings. I do not find his action inapp...

If you're a student of grassroots politics in Allentown, chances are that you know Robert Trotner. This political and community activist...

Trump will be costly, very bigly, very soonly.  He misthinks that he can weaponize tariffs to control the foreign policy of our allies, as i...

Up to the early 1950's, Allentown was heated by coal, and much of it came from Sumner Avenue. Sumner was a unique street, because ...

Yesterday, J.B. Reilly broke ground on another residential building. Back in 2011, this blog wondered why the Morning Call parcel was includ...

Last week I reported that the Morning Call was taking back their story about the immigrant deported to Guatemala by ICE, bit by bit. They st...

The theme of the SportsFest coverage on Sunday was that 36 different sports were being played at one location, CedarBeach Park. Anybody wh...

Allentown City Council never fails to disappoint. On Wednesday evening they voted to fund another non-profit to promote business on Hamilton...

Many people, even a conservative independent like myself, are distressed about immigrants being sent to El Salvador and the new Alligator Al...

The Conrail engine backs across Walnut Street, as it delivers a flatbed of large granite slaps and blocks to the Wentz Memorial Company, by...

Shown above is the former Wentz Tombstone shop at 20th and Hamilton Streets. Shown leading up to the workshop were tracks of the former Quar...

It's not as easy as it appears providing the only critique of city government in Allentown, and doing it for eighteen years. The establi...

City Council is considering a $300K kickstart toward another new non-profit to promote center city. Last time I checked, the taxpayers are...

I bill myself as an independent non-partisan. This November, voters will have their last opportunity to keep Allentown resembling something ...

 I know a little about the Allentown Park System. Actually, compared to the mayor and current park director, I know a lot. I was raised on t...

In the 1960's, if you snuck into a park at night with a girl and a bottle of beer, you were sure to encounter an officer we called the M...

I know that Allentown isn't a Sanctuary City, but rather A Welcoming City. While the distinction isn't lost on me, apparently it is ...

LehighValleyNews.com wrote a piece wondering about Ed Zucal's campaign...They think that he's missing in action. Ed is on the bal...