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Everybody was expecting this but now it’s official. Jean Belinski was one of the Council members I disagreed with most over the past two years, in third place after Dave DiGi and Eric Evans, so I’m glad this will be an open seat race.
Hoping 4 young progressives manage to take the seats now held by DiGi, Evans, Belinski, and whoever wins the Reynolds/ Donchez primary.
May 24, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
Hooray! Bethlehem Council’s progressive majority will now have real governing power. It might be a good strategy to elect Willie Reynolds as Council President, since he was the progressive standard bearer in the Mayor race, and insofar as someone will be the face of Council opposite the Mayor, the symbolism would be fairly potent. Painting [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 22, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
In this era of tight budgets, cities are looking for ways to grow their tax bases without asking individual households to contribute more taxes. Here’s the first place they should look. Different kinds of buildings yield different amounts of property tax revenue per acre. Many areas limit residential development to just one house per acre. [...]
May 13, 2013 By Jon Geeting Leave a Comment
The point of political blogging is not that you’ll directly reach so many voters that you’ll shape opinions about elections. The point is that for every couple dozen low-information voters, there’s a *political friend* who people ask who to vote for the week before an election. The point of blogging is to shape the opinions [...]
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What irony. When Bethlehem had young “progressive mayors” 1998 – 2012, they had fuddy duddies on council. Soon, council will be full of progressives, but the next mayor will be Bob Donchez, who will be 63.
Connundrom.
Council seems unlikely to be full of progressives though. We’re entering the coward era of Bethlehem politics. There’s been a lot of change, and now politicians want to rest on their laurels instead of fighting entrenched interests to get more growth.