Northampton County

I mean, this is something that we've known for quite some time.

And I think we still do see that in many areas of local government here in the Lehigh Valley, whether it's Lehigh County or Northampton County.

But Ron, you know, Your county executive, Josh Siegel, has proposed a tax increase for 2027, a 17.7% tax increase.

Our county executive over here in Northampton County has proposed a 43% tax increase.

Again, these are just proposals, folks who are listening out there.

These are not the final percentages at this particular point in time.

Now, Calshi has Brooks as an eighty-seven percent favorite to win.

Keep in mind, the Lehigh Valley, Lehigh County, Northampton County specifically, the ultimate bellwether area.

Maybe Bob Brooks has fooled the residents of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area, but I find it hard to believe that they would go from Susan Wild to Ryan Mackenzie all the way to socialist Bob Brooks in less than two years.

That would be remarkable.

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You know, one of the headlines, too, in, in Northampton County and the Allentown area is how the taxes are going up.

They've been...

So I had my hands in it, even though it wasn't the focus of the work.

And then I was very, very lucky to go to work at the American Prosecutors Research Institute, which at the time was an arm of NDIA for this fabulous woman, Teressa Scalzo, who passed in 2015 from cancer, but she was just a legend, a great prosecutor from Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and who really did a lot of national work on sexual violence, domestic violence, really get, got it set up.

But these large organizations, and there are s- you know, many associations, many large o- organizations that in the body of their work look at these crimes.

It was like this was just a small piece, these crimes, of what they looked at.

I think that's the actual guy.

Ladies and gentlemen, I met potential state senator for my part of the county, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, Jeff Warren.

Had a great conversation with him on my front stoop.

The biggest takeaway I had from him, and yes, he's going to get my vote, he sounded like a normal dude.

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All right, we go to Pennsylvania, where authorities allege that a Northampton County man was high on drugs when he stripped down and trashed the inside of a convenience store before being subdued by an off-duty police officer and a bystander.

Matthew Cash, he's facing DUI, disorderly conduct, criminal mischief, and indecent exposure charges in connection with the fracas, as they say, at the Turkey Hill, uh, Inn in Williams Township.

One District Judge Don Corpora, he arraigned the 28-year-old, setting bail at $10,000.

The, the thing that affects all of us is loc- local elections, local races.

And when I look at the Cook Report over the weekend releasing the fact that Ryan Mackenzie they're now saying is vulnerable, that's Northampton County area and Carbon County, and also saying Brian Fitzpatrick vulnerable, labeling these 18 different districts that should have, that were leaning Republican-

Yeah

... now they're saying are much closer.

Valley, Pennsylvania,

so Northampton to be exact.

Pennsylvania, a hockey state, really? I

think about football more with Pennsylvania.