John Harris Explains Why You Shouldn’t Read Politico

TPM: In an interview with The New Republic, Politico editor-in-chief John Harris admitted that Silver wasn’t one of his lifelines in the 2012 campaign [...] “I admire how he has built a franchise,” Harris said. “I roll my eyes at how he gets up on his high horse quite a lot on different topics.” Jim [...]

RIP Main Street Commons Multi-Space Parking Meters

Tom Hartley continues to impress at the Bethlehem Parking Authority. I’m not a big fan of the multi-space meters either because there’s nothing worse than having to stand in line to pay for parking. But BPA’s data does show usage of the Main Street Commons parking deck increased last year, so the multi-space meters haven’t [...]

Easton Keeps Showing Traffic Circle Parking’s Not Necessary

Event by event, Easton keeps proving that the parking spaces in the traffic circle aren’t necessary. They keep closing off the corners of the circle for big events, aka times of peak parking demand, and it’s no big deal. People find other places to park, and everyone gets to enjoy more public fun in a [...]

Team Cost Savings for Gracedale

Rich Wilkins correctly recasts Gracedale as a banal debate between service providers and taxpayers: – Sell Gracedale- Stoffa, Angle, and a few other folks in the whole county want this. Very few, based on the referendum results. – Keep Gracedale at all costs- Essentially this is the coalition and labor folks, and some of their [...]

Hoisted from the Comments: Fahy Bridge Turning Lane Being Eliminated

From the comments: Lynn Olanoff says: Bethlehem officials have been working on plans for a year plus to do away with the current right turn lane going northbound. I think last time I talked to Mike Alkhal he said the work was going to be done later this year. Here’s a story I wrote on [...]

How Counties Can Sell Their Development Rights and Preserve More Farmland

I know this is already in the Ron Beitler platform in Lower Macungie, but I’m hoping to get County Executive candidates John Callahan, John Brown, Tom Muller and Scott Ott and the various County Council candidates interested in this idea as well, because I think it’ll be a money-saver for local government and a nice [...]

Eliminate Right Turning Lane on Bethlehem’s Fahy Bridge

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Bethlehem cyclists recently had another memorial ride for Pat Ytsma, the cyclist who was tragically killed by a motorist on Bethlehem’s Fahy Bridge back in 2011, with a bike ride, and I just want to use this occasion to remind everyone that this intersection will continue to be very dangerous for pedestrians until the right [...]