— Jeff Ward, Lehigh Valley News Briefs
I’m not on the drone bandwagon. There are more important issues — development, government debt, corporate actions — but they don’t grab the attention the way speculation about little flying craft, perhaps with little green men inside, do.
So far there have been lots of supposed sightings and lots of presumption.
We live in an area with three airports and near more airports in the New York, Philadelphia, Reading, Trenton and Wilkes-Barre areas. There are lesser-known airports, such as Teterboro in New Jersey, and small strips in the suburbs, along with Lehigh Valley International’s two little siblings, Braden Airpark and the Queen City Airport.
The skies up there are busy. Check FlightAware. Just because you don’t know what something is doesn’t mean it’s a UFO.
Maybe something weird really is going on. Probably not, and we will move on to the next mania soon, and today’s drone zealots will be pumping up some new conspiratorial idea.
Perhaps somebody will see a big housecat and claim cougars are invading. It could happen! There are devout believers in Alien Big Cats.
When I see lights in the skies, I don’t assume the sources are drones or that there is a conspiracy to … well, to do something. There are lots of planes and satellites, including the Starlink system, which is controlled by Elon Musk.
Blogger Bernie O’Hare of Lehigh Valley Ramblings has also not seen any drones. Perhaps the two of us are conspiring to hide something?
His blog also addresses something more concrete, the City of Bethlehem’s public debt.
Public debt tends to be a problem because there is no reward for frugality in government. Politicians are rewarded by interest groups when they spend money on things. That is why at the federal level, Democrats and Republicans have pushed the debt up. It’s what they do.
Take a look at the national debt clock. The federal debt was more than $36 trillion today.
Lehigh Valley Ramblings presents a good look at how Bethlehem’s public debt has declined. Bernie talked to Mayor J. William Reynolds, which in itself is a feat.
When I was a reporter for five years, the Bethlehem mayor never returned my calls. A couple times I’d get an obtuse email the next day from some PR service …. Did you have a question? … but we live in a digital news world.
He never called back, so I stopped calling.
So for a real issue, check out Bernie O’Hare’s story on Bethlehem’s debt.
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