MOLOVINSKY ON ALLENTOWN

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...

When you write a blog for eighteen years, sometimes you struggle for topics....Today was a gift from Mayor Matt Tuerk.   His letter in the M...

Is it just my perception, or are there more shootings going on? I can't ask the administration, or their statistics will say nope! Can...

Just west of the Robin Hood Bridge is a fountain which quenched the thirst of my summer days. Built during the WPA era, it overlooked the ...

A few years ago, new and young visitors to the park would have no idea that a magnificent miniature bridge crossed a spring run to the Li...

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My post last Friday about the Farmers Market drew the nostalgia crowd on Facebook (Allentown Chronicles), and their wishes that the traditio...

Chief Charles No Threat To The Public Roca assures us after every shooting. Mayor Matt Inclusion Tuerk started his term with Discovery T...

If it wasn't for the Allentown Police cars, Canal Park looked like a crowded park along the Delaware in New Jersey...Not a Pa. license p...

As an advocate for the traditional park system, I have been campaigning against the Riparian Buffers for years. I think that people should b...

If you grew up in or near Allentown, chances are that you been to the Farmers Market. The market has been in operation since 1953, all year ...

This was supposed to be a Men's Stuff post, about the working cars on the Lehigh Valley Transit Company. Doing research for the previo...

Join Mayor Tuerk on Saturday July 19, as 2nd Street is turned into a meandering  Caribbean lane.  The Double Parking Festival will run from ...

Last week the Morning Call gave Promise Neighborhoods another Easy Pass. Two paid employees conducted a survey on neighborhood violence. Onl...

Both were elected by partisan purists at the time, but world events have brought them closer together than foreseen.  Granted, the D is a ve...

On Wednesday evening, Ed Zucal broke ranks with the Democratic City Council and voted against Bill 16. That bill essentially changed zoning ...

About twelve years ago, I began searching for the grave of a young Jewish woman, who died around 1900. Among several Jewish cemeteries no lo...

I consider myself a local gonzo type journalist. This blog is in its eighteenth year, and during that time I have immersed myself in numerou...

Those of you who listened to the podcast of my interview with Alan Jennings know that toward the end of the interview I confessed to sni...

On Friday afternoon I saw a young family holding hands and staring longingly through the fence at the empty swimming pool in Jordan Park. At...

While I've been involved in many issues in Allentown over the years, defending the park system of my youth is the one I find the most re...

When it comes to the history of industrial Allentown, the railroad buffs are among the current experts. Our heavy manufacturing base moved ...

There were two gunfire incidents last weekend on the east side. Police Chief Roca said  The actions that are committed by people in this inc...

Chronic readers of this blog know that last year I revealed that molovinsky on allentown also maintains a low-rent office near the Space Co...

This blog over the years, and this weekend was the 18th year, has worn several hats. First and foremost, it has supplied local political scr...

Yesterday's post about Emma Tropiano generated some expected replies. When I referred to an agenda at the Morning Call back in the day, ...

Although the Progressives, who campaigned against the waste to energy plant and the water lease this year, didn't like Emma Tropiano b...

Today, Kline's Island is synonymous with the sewer plant. It wasn't always that way. Originally, like Adam's Island, it was own...

Subscribers to this blog know that I don't think much of Trump's nominations to his cabinet and other posts. There was one exception...

Our social studies teacher turned county executive has failed the federal test on sanctuary cities. He's now complaining that Lehigh Cou...

I didn't vote for Fetterman, and at the time of his election, it was hard for me to understand why anybody would have chose him over Oz....

In the fall of 2007, Allentown began the systematic removal of the undesirables from Hamilton Street, in cooperation with Lanta. At the time...

Before the primary election last week, my hunch was that if Zucal could reach 40% of the Democratic votes, combining that with Republicans a...

In Downtown Allentown's commercial years, stores extended 3 blocks out from Hamilton Street. The only remaining remnant of that era is t...

The Allentown Housing and Development Corp. recently purchased a home at 421 North St. That block of North Street was destroyed by fire, ...

Allentown benefitted enormously from General Harry Trexler. Most obvious is the park system, which unfortunately has suffered continuous ...

In 2010, I learned that Lehigh County had fast track plans to demolish the 1824 stone arch bridge by Union Terrace. Several decades earlier ...

While Mayor Tuerk and his park department brag and cut ribbons for a new gimmicks in the parks, they allow irreplaceable historic icons to d...

In a wholesale vote pandering extravaganza, Allentown held a Latino Festival two days before the primary election. Tuerk stood on the stage ...

When the shots rang out last week in Macungie, welcome to Allentown. Chief Roca just released neighborhood crime statistics, but who cares a...