The Lehigh Valley’s ‘Collective Resolve’ Means 2013 Will Be Better
I’m not sure how many of us have the time anymore to take a deep breath, clear our heads, and reflect, as we once did, on the year behind us. Maybe we don’t have any interest in dwelling on the past,...
View ArticleTONY, I KNOW YOU TOO WELL TO BELIEVE YOUR ENDORSEMENT OF PAYDAY LENDING
I hate taking on a friend, but Tony Ianelli’s lip-synch of the payday lenders’ talking points defending a despicable loan product is pretty sad (June 26). Tony is a friend of many years. He has done...
View ArticleA Better World is Up to Us
There is something about an approaching new year that leads us to assess where we are with our plans, our expectations, our hopes, and our fears. In my case, I agonize constantly over the human...
View ArticleAt a press conference in support of the minimum wage increase to $10.10 per...
It feels like I’ve been here before. Actually, I know I’ve been here before. In fact, I am getting tired of having to make the argument that public policy should be used to regulate a market that is...
View ArticleMy City in Flames
by Alan Jennings Most people who know me know that I am a diehard fan of the Baltimore Orioles. I am from Hagerstown, Maryland. My family could only afford vacations returning home to visit aunts,...
View ArticleValley blossoming, but still work to be done
I grew up in the church. I’ve considered myself a person of faith for most of my life. That doesn’t mean that I am not challenged by many aspects of my Christian faith tradition. What bugs me the...
View ArticleSeriously, Bernie?
Over in the goofy world of blogs, I’ve been vilified once again by my friend, Bernie O’Hare. There are lots of weirdos in the shadows, trolls who take strong positions attacking people they don’t know,...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: CACLV RAISES MORAL ARGUMENT AFTER JUDGE JOHNSON DISMISSES THE...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: ALAN L. JENNINGS 610-248-9900 CACLV Challenges Hospital to Respond to Its Own Needs Assessment In the wake of Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas Judge Brian...
View ArticleWe Do That, Too
CACLV is, to say the least, a complicated organization. With a budget in excess of $25 million (counting the value of the food distributed by the Second Harvest Food Bank), programs such as the Sixth...
View ArticlePRESS RELEASE: THE RISING TIDE ADDS A LINE OF CREDIT TO ITS SMALL BUSINESS...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: CHRIS HUDOCK (T) 484.893.1039 (C) 484.553.3171 The Rising Tide Community Loan Fund has expanded its services yet again, announcing today the creation of a...
View ArticleA LETTER TO THE SOCIETY THAT RAISED ME
I’m shocked. I’m scared. I’m lost. You taught me that we are a great nation. Great nations don’t bully the weak. You taught me to be tolerant. Tolerance is not roughing up people who don’t agree...
View ArticleRenewLV Smart Growth Summit
RENEWLV SMARTH GROWTH SUMMIT 2 December 2016 KEYNOTE Let’s talk about the market place. I know: in our divided, us vs. them, i-won’t-get-mine-if-you-get-yours world, you all have already started...
View ArticleSecond Harvest Celebrates Successful Fundraising Campaign
New Home Dedicated to the Late Sharon Gausling The Second Harvest Food Band of Lehigh Valley and Northeast Pennsylvania celebrated the completion of its $3.3 million fund raising campaign to pay for...
View ArticleIt’s up to moderate Republicans to restrain Trump
What separates us from any other species on the planet is our ability to reason. That ability forces us, too, to consider ourselves in the context of others. How close do we live to one another? How...
View ArticleEVENT ADVISORY: Slate Belt NPP
DCED Secretary Davin to Join Slate Belt Community Leaders to Announce Neighborhood Partnership Program Rural, Multi-Municipal Project is First of its Kind The Community Action Committee of the Lehigh...
View ArticleIMMEDIATE RELEASE: Trump Turns His Back on Low-Income Americans
Proposed Budget Would Shut Down CACLV Donald Trump’s first demonstration of his priorities through his proposed budget makes it very clear that the billionaire whose father set him up in business...
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Loan to “Shapewear” Retailer Royal Lioness Puts The Rising Tide’s Lending...
Local Community Lender Has Best Year in its Sixteen-Year History Brian Nguah, owner of Royal Lioness, is one happy entrepreneur. He credits his $25,000 loan from The Rising Tide Community Loan Fund...
View ArticleCollapse of Our World
ENOUGH!!! What are we doing? Have we gone mad? When this man was elected president, some of my friends, people I respect at the top ranks of the Lehigh Valley’s business community, implored me to...
View Article2017 ANNUAL MEETING – MOBILIZE
These next 25 minutes are the best part of my year as I get to brag about what each of you and so many others in this community helped us make possible over the past year. I am going to introduce you...
View ArticleESTAMOS LISTO
Diaspora: the movement, migration or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. That’s how the Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it. It’s one of those rarely used words...
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