Brandon White’s stunning debut not only grabs you from the first and doesn’t let go. It hurls you emotionally into its titular “older than ghosts” universe and blocks the door.

Our blazing shock, as readers, feels only a little less searing than what the young protagonist faces in the book’s first pages.

Thirteen-year-old Daniel—rendered in the prologue’s punchy, smoke-inhaling prose—must fight not only for his own life, but that of his mother, as they try to flee a burning house and an abusive man in Mississippi.

Ryan Mackenzie wasted no time slagging off Bob Brooks with a statement last night following Brooks’ capture of the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, which covers Hellertown and Lower Saucon.

Another positive spin on all this is that we saw in this primary a party with several different powerful strands that represent what being a Democrat means in 2026. We all like our strand best, to be sure. But combine them together, and you get something stronger that’s actually more important than what the party leaders, or we ourselves, tell us what we’re supposed to be.

With LV4All’s endorsement of Bob Brooks for Congress over Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure and Carol Obando-Derstine, they got it all wrong.

The longtime Lehigh Valley blogger Bernie O’Hare is probably the most widely read political blogger in the region.

Candidates running for Congress in Pennsylvania need to demonstrate an appreciation for the issues close to the hearts and minds of Black Pennsylvanians.

Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure and Carol Obando-Derstine may be running against each other, but their focus in their talks at Friday’s PA Democratic Black Caucus Congress Review Summit was on how they could empower and protect Black communities with our democracy and the economy under threat.

Of all the candidates who may face Republican Ryan Mackenzie in vying for former Rep. Susan Wild’s old seat this November, I am absolutely certain that Crosswell is the one Republicans fear most.

The “Smartless” and “This Past Weekend” podcasts. The “no thoughts just vibes” movement. Casual shitposting. Bad grammar and typos as rich-dude aura.

Being stupid — or acting stupid — seems to excite powerful kingmakers in politics these days.

By six votes to three, the Saucon Valley school board of directors passed a 1% tax increase last night at Saucon Valley School District’s board of directors meeting.

What is the worst thing a national and state party can do in the days before a local primary election? To my mind, it’s to subvert the local process by endorsing a candidate, especially a candidate who isn’t very well known. That’s insanity, right? And it’s precisely what the national and state Democratic Party did this week to the Lehigh Valley.