Even Discussion

I want to congratulate President Obama for setting up the bipartisan health care summit. However, I feel like it should not have to come to such measures. It is the job of Congress to pass laws that would be beneficial to the American people. It would seem that more people are more interested in solely what the party is interested in, and not what is actually good for the American people. Congressmen and senators need to put aside partisan ties and come together more often for the good of the people.

I am very insulted at the advertising and marketing of the minor league baseball team of our Lehigh Valley, the IronPigs. It is my understanding that when the promotion began for the naming of the team that the Lehigh Valley was to be recognized for the ”pig iron” that referred to the iron ingot manufactured at Bethlehem Steel. How did we get from that concept to the mascot of a swine and the call of an ”oink?” Is the Lehigh Valley to be crowned the ”Pork Capital” of Pennsylvania?

U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent is a candidate for re-election as our congressmen from Lehigh Valley’s 15th District. He called himself ”a compromiser in solving national problems.” Then he said he was opposed to the cap-and-trade bill, which would help make America independent of foreign oil. Dent said he also opposed the stimulus program that kept us out of the second ”Great Depression” and started the present recovery. Finally he opposes the current federal health insurance bill, a program that will offer affordable health care to more than 30 million Americans who are without care.

Q: PPL says its $510 million plan to string a 500-kilovolt line from its Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Luzerne County to Roseland, N.J., will keep the lights on well into the future. But the region hasn’t experienced power blackouts so why should the infrastructure change?

On Thursday night, the Lower Macungie Township Board of Commissioners will hold a public forum on an important issue: how to proceed with the Leister Farmhouse.

The stars must be misaligned. It could be a case of mistaken identity. Or maybe the Earth’s magnetic field switched its polarity, as can happen every few hundred million years or so, causing peculiar things to happen.

Is Walmart really the biggest problem in North Whitehall Township?

With all this talk about the government regulating and deregulating businesses, I am beginning to wonder how long PPL can rip off everyone and how many people in the Lehigh Valley cannot pay their electric bill on time, if pay it at all.

People arguing about the cause of global warming is analogous to a couple arguing about the cause of a fire consuming their house, instead of calling 911. Pristine ice cores from the Arctic, Antarctic and Greenland are the ”only” reliable methods to determine if the planet is warming or cooling, regardless of the cause.

Some of us, who have spent a lot of time wandering about libraries and have never met a librarian we disliked, are disappointed by Gov. Rendell cutting 21 percent from the Pennsylvania library budget. Libraries have had to lay off staff and cut back on new books. There is evidence to suggest this budget cut targets the less-than-wealthy Pennsylvanians. But we all know that money is scarce in this recession so the question becomes: How to replace dollars taken from libraries?