"LCA and Allentown signed a lease in 2013 that called for the authority to give the city $211.3 million in exchange for control of the system for 50 years. Allentown used the money to pay down its cash-poor pension systems."
May I suggest... If Allentown feels it's excessive perhaps they should consider offering a buy back. At this point the LCA might be willing to forgo this endless bickering. However after assuming the transfer of the loan debt, the required repairs and other outstanding obligations I very much doubt things would turn out much differently for water consumers. It isn't like the LCA is a for-profit operation.
This whole thing comes down to simply rearranging the deck chairs. There's no such thing as free money.
Given the figures above it should be clear the Republican policies generate neither greater per capita nor median household wealth. Politicians and pundits lie. Numbers never do.
Seems the people in the states with the least are counting on Trump the most by voting for him. These folks are likely to find themselves greatly disappointed being they're the ones most affected by his cuts and future benefit reductions.
Couple that with Missouri, Montana, Nebraska and several other Midwestern states who also voted for him being the most impacted by Trump's tariff games.
WFMZ Video 06/05/2018 --"Along the banks of the Lil' Lehigh [sic] at Cedar Beach Park, the Muhlenberg College biology professor doesn't like what he sees. "A site like this is ripe for the giant hogweed," he said.
The giant hogweed with its pretty flowered cap can turn a field of dreams into a nightmare. The toxic plant can cause severe long-term burns, blisters the size of golf balls, even blindness."
People who follow our local blogs around here know we already been on this merry-go-round for a long time. No sense rehashing this yet again. Suffice it to say there is a very simple solution for this riparian problem.
