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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.
Wild West Wind blows through Saucon Valley
Like anyone else in Hellertown and Lower Saucon, I’ve been this last week feeling the west wind churn through our neighborhoods, scattering bright leaves every which way. Don’t you love all that? I feels so good somehow. I don’t understand why, exactly. It seems to reflect some deep need in the soul.
5 perfect reasons why school board should table any renewal of Saucon superintendent contract
That this was crammed, at the 11th hour, onto new business two weeks before two new school board are sworn in is an utter disgrace. The backdoor “November Surprise” manner of it all gives the appearance of subterfuge and treachery. It should be immediately tabled.
Here are five perfect reasons why:
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.