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Ryan Mackenzie comes out swinging a sad wet noodle at Bob Brooks
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.
We’ll have to hold our noses and move forward with Bob Brooks
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.
Why Lehigh Valley 4 All got the primary wrong
With LV4All’s endorsement of Bob Brooks for Congress over Ryan Crosswell, Lamont McClure and Carol Obando-Derstine, they got it all wrong.
Whoa! Is Bernie O’Hare leaning Crosswell?
The longtime Lehigh Valley blogger Bernie O’Hare is probably the most widely read political blogger in the region.
Crosswell, McClure and Obando-Derstine speak at PA Black Caucus forum
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.
Confirmed: Republicans have lost their minds in Saucon
They’re trying to meddle in the Democratic primary. They will fail.
There is one Democratic candidate who terrifies Ryan Mackenzie
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.
On the Dem party bosses who think working-class is a costume …
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.
Saucon Valley passes 1% tax increase
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.
The national Democratic House establishment is trying to channel MAGA vibes in the Lehigh Valley—and betraying its own grassroots
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.
Amazingly thorough Saucon supe contract story
This Lehigh Valley News story on the superintendent contract dives so deep! It hits hard. And it even has a dateline, like the nationals:
Beautiful new math: When 6 is actually less than 3
It was a very bitter pill for the community to swallow.
A deeply ick four-year extension to the Saucon Valley School District superintendent’s contract passed at last night’s standing-room-only meeting at the Saucon High School Audion.
Check out this sophisticated Hellertown-based blog
The Hellertown-based writer Steve Wiggins (“obscure private intellectual, unfluencer, and recovering academic,” as he sardonically describes himself) writes widely about a variety of topics—religious studies and horror, among others—and his writing is fascinating.
MPH is a personal blog about the most ornery, wondrous and complicated small town in America. MPH is produced purely to entertain and has zero relationship, obviously, with any political, corporate or governmental entity. Why do this? Because as Hellertown goes, America goes.