The Republicans learned the hard way that those red hats are under the truck seats, gathering dust. They were a Trump cult, not a political ...

Trump closed the border on day one, and that was good, but expected. The problem for Republicans has been from day two foreward. Trump is, s...

My Republican associates think I'm on an anti-Republican track, not so. I'm not anti-Mackenzie, but I don't buy into intentional...

Today's the day some candidates used to be put out their misery. However, now with mail-in ballots, and subsequent challenges, the day o...

Mailer wise, one of the most contested local elections is for Lehigh County Executive, Roger MacLean against Josh Siegel. The mailers inform...

On Monday, as I passed 17th and Hamilton, I saw the Allen students lined up from the bomb threat. Most did not have coats on, but were outs...

I would suppose that the infirmary on the aircraft carrier must almost be a small hospital. Rather than continue using that carrier task for...

To enter Rt. 309 from Tilghman Street, you needed to be able to turn your head like an owl. For the last decade I had to stop on the entranc...

At the end of 2000, despite the majority of neighbors in opposition, The West Park Historic District was enacted. The City Administration...

As the USS Gerald Ford and its support ships position off Central and South America, Trump claims he fighting a drug war. In reality, he may...

The only word I can think of to describe the demolition of the East Wing at the White House is crass. What Trump has done to the Oval Offic...

A MAGA man was arrested at the Wilkes-Barre No Kings Rally for brandishing a handgun at protesters. MAGA man spent the night in jail. On m...

Israel's far right government has cooperated with settlers destroying thousands of olive trees on the West Bank. This is olive picking s...

There was always a large Jewish presence in Jerusalem and other towns in Palestine. Although the Jewish population jumped with survivors of ...

Alvin Holsey, the Naval Admiral at the top of the command chain involved in attacking the supposed smuggler boats off Venezuela, has resigne...

Trump's efforts were certainly appreciated by a large segment of Israel's population, I hope enough of a majority to put Netanyahu o...

Students of this blog know that I have been on the park department's case about the barn at the park department office. They allowed vin...

 In a recent Facebook post, The Allentown Parknership said.... Allentown park fact: The Arts Park connects the Allentown Art Museum, Baum Sc...

In the screen grab above,  Matt Tuerk and Pat Browne are unveiling a replica of a statue that was in the former, long gone Rialto Theater, t...

The Morning Call bestowed a gift upon Ryan Mackenzie...The headline stated that Mackenzie DID NOT kick illegal immigrants off of Medicaid. ...

Mayoral candidate Ed Zucal sent out a mailing this week with a back to basics theme. I'm one resident with whom that message resonate...

In a neighborhood that no longer exists, Allentown's first legal Black liquor establishment had a short tortured run. McLaughlin...

Most bloggers crave comments, but not me lately. I have begun accepting less and less comments. I'm not trying to get a seat at any tabl...

While I have been a long time advocate for the traditional park system and the WPA structures within, I had not given much study to the Rose...

A statue in the Rose Garden has been removed to be refurbished. The sculpture honestly wasn't on my radar until Friday, when I noticed s...

The other day a Burnout Rally took place on Union Blvd., by the former Western Electric. It was obviously organized and publicized, with a...

My military experience is limited to having ridden past Quantico a few times on the train. However, the President addressing all the assembl...

On Monday afternoon, President Trump said I got to witness the greatest accomplishment in civilization. Well maybe, if Hamas accepts the dea...

I grew up working in a meat market. People often would buy a round steak, and ask the clerk to tenderize it. You ran it through a machine wi...

Nobody wants to be called a racist, and everybody walks on eggshells when discussing the current situation in the Allentown School District....

On Wednesday's post, a commenter asked me how I claim to be a conservative, when I don't endorse Trump's Americanism. I wouldn...

The Morning Call headline stated that an Iron Chef is making a bet on Allentown. Anybody who has a paid subscription to the paper knows be...

Nobody will ever accuse Donald Trump of false modesty. In his typical kingly fashion, he let the United Nations know about all the wars he s...

The upcoming election for Allentown School Board has five grade A candidates. Among them are two veterans of previous boards, again voluntee...

We're in a dangerous time. We have a bully in the White House, who isn't anywhere near bright as he thinks. Back from England, he sa...

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 ...