I visited my friend Stu Lathrop of Allentown Monday and returned with six awesome new "What Is It?" objects, including this one. I don't have much information to add to what you can see in these two photographs by The... »
Lehigh County Exec Don Cunningham today vetoed a unanimous decision by the Board of Commissioners to move ahead with reassessment. His message appears, in its entirety, in The Morning Call, and can be distilled to this single sentence. "I am vetoing th... »
My wife and I were watching the Pitt-West Virginia basketball game on TV the other night when they flashed a shot of the Mountaineers' mascot. "Spencer Soper!" my wife said. I had to admit that the guy was a dead-ringer... »
Opinion time again… These are my thoughts and do not reflect those of management. I just finished reading the article by Scott Kraus and Matt Assad, Of The Morning Call. Allentown’s 130-acre downtown Neighborhood Improvement Zone, authorized by a state... »
This is a relatively small matter, but an important one, I think. Last week at a meeting of the citizen advisory committee for Allentown's "Connecting Our Communities" proposal, residents discussed the part of the plan that calls for bicycle lanes on L... »
Pictured above are Express Times reporters Colin McEvoy and Precious Petty, who were at last night's Blogapalooza, hosted by LehighValleyLive at Bethlehem's beautiful ArtsQuest Center. Both are veteran reporters, and are like kids in a candy store. The... »
Kyle Bower took his seat on Alburtis Council on Wednesday night, hours after pleading guilty to escape and stalking charges in Lehigh County Court. We're wondering what you think about his decision to accept the position after saying prior to the Novem... »
