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Should call boxes be kept on the turnpike?
No With all due respect to smoke signals, Morse code and the telegraph — well, society forges on. Call boxes along the Pennsylvania Turnpike are an expensive, unnecessary and seldom-used taxpayer liability that should be struck from the...Tags: Telecommunication Service, Apple iPhone
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Official approaches to spending the public's money seem to have a common thread
Samuel Horwitz is eagerly anticipating May 12, graduation day for those receiving master of business administration degrees from the Wharton School, the oh-so prestigious financial branch of Pennsylvania's only Ivy League university. He'll get an MBA in...
Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Northampton (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Lehigh County
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Crumbling highway infrastructure will take guts to fix
The good news is that Pennsylvania has more than 20,000 bridges that are considered structurally sound. The bad news? In the words of a new state report, Pennsylvania has 4,476 bridges that are "structurally deficient," which is 18 percent of our...Tags: Transportation, Highway Transportation, Travel, Railway Transportation, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board privatization plan — plague or progress?
Just when Pennsylvania may be on the brink of a burgeoning booze business, somebody has to go and make it harder for the police to bust drunk drivers. On Wednesday, Gov. Tom Corbett uncorked his privatization plan to replace the state liquor monopoly...Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Politics, Company Privatization, Mike Turzai, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Cressleys hope to reopen Kriss Pines hatchery as Firefly
Kirk Cressley pointed with dismay to the 14 nearly 100-foot long empty fish pools that he cleaned out by hand shovel and wheelbarrow, a project that took a year to accomplish. After he and his wife, Denise, bought the former Kriss Pines Trout Hatchery...
Tags: Carbon County, Aquaculture, Seafood and Fishing Industry, Doyle Heffley, Lehigh County
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Deer hunting season kicks off Monday
Wednesday's hustle and bustle in the local grocery stores wasn't just about Thanksgiving. Stopping off for some ingredients for my daughter's pumpkin pie, I bumped into my dog groomer, Michele Busch, and her excitement was just as gear to this coming...Tags: Wildlife, Holidays, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hunting, Firearms
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Remembering what Tammy Zywicki would have liked
On Thursday, in honor of the anniversary, JoAnn and Hank Zywicki went to their daughter's grave. They'd driven up from their retirement development in Florida, all the way to Pennsylvania, to a little town near where they and Tammy had been born. Did...
Tags: Frank Lloyd Wright, Colleges and Universities, Northwestern University, FBI
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Credit union refused customer's out-of-town purchase
Banks are doing all they can to stop credit card fraud, but David Rice of Whitehall Township says his bank is going too far and its fraud protection efforts almost left him literally stranded on the side of the road. Rice said his Visa from First...Tags: Politics, British Airways Plc, Whitehall, Travel, Credit and Debt
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PA lottery privatization deal raises concerns
For years, there have been demands that Pennsylvania join the civilized world by privatizing its retail liquor operation. State stores are a vestige of the frenzy at the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, when it was felt that letting people choose for...
Tags: Eugene DePasquale, Company Privatization, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Whitehall, Pension and Welfare
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Former Gov. Ed Rendell is an interesting choice as a character witness
The revelation came like a bolt of lightening after Tuesday's paper landed on the porch. The late great Watergate figures John Erlichman and H.R. Haldeman may not have had to do 11/2 years in prison, each. They should have had their defense team make...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Lifestyle and Leisure, Legal Service, Lawyers, Politics
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Lehigh Valley Farm preservation: Monroe County couple win heroes award
In this era of urban sprawl and unfettered development, land preservation and conservation are keys to maintaining our outdoors heritage, whether it is forest, land or farm. Neal and Shirley Murphy of Polk Township in Monroe County are certainly worthy...Tags: Trout, Lifestyle and Leisure, Robin Hood, Bowmanstown, Environmental Issues
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E85 ethanol: Let the buyer beware
Q: With my gas tank nearly empty, I mistakenly filled up with E85 ethanol recently at the Exxon station at 1825 Route 309 in South Whitehall. I did not know what this E85 was, nor that it could damage my engine. The pump had a yellow hose, and a white...Tags: Sunoco Incorporated, Whitehall, Passenger Cars, Renewable Energy, Ethanol
May 13, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Apr 18, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Mar 9, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Feb 2, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Nov 22, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Aug 29, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Aug 8, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Dec 8, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jun 26, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 8, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 31, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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