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@lehighvalleynews
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#RingTheBell
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This is Rowan. He fell and hurt his paw during a hike. A fancy custom brace is helping him walk around right now, but heโll need surgery and physical therapy to get back to 100%. Heโs still in very good spirits and you can help him get better below. 13/10
I know it's a small sample size, but a ton of
@JohnFetterman
signs have popped up on my drive from Southside Bethlehem to the eastern edge of Allentown lately
There will be a lot of narratives spun off
#Election2022
but there are two emerging threads ๐งต: protection of abortion rights and Gen Z showing up in big numbers.
This is Cooper. His owners found out this week he has aggressive bone cancer. He is a true 15/10 - the best boy living on hamburgers and lots of love in his final days โฅ๏ธ
@dog_rates
@jameshamblin
I will respectfully disagree. I have come close to a full-blown anaphylactic reaction to shellfish, and the fact that this doctor had a shellfish allergy led me to read the entire story and conclude these reactions should be tracked, fully documented and studied.
What's your favorite movie line ever? I'm torn between "We'll always have Paris" and "You're gonna need a bigger boat." (Quotes may or may not be exact.)
@dog_rates
this might be the saddest doggo
@dog_rates
has ever shared :( Anyone else want to give Big Poppa endless scritch'ems and snoot boops right now?
You say nor'easter, I say "What you talkin' bout, human? You sounds like broken record ... anyway... still puppared."
#StormMode
#Noreaster4
@dog_rates
Jarring email of the day:
The
@PSEA
said an analysis found that Doug Mastrianoโs education plan would cut public school funding by more than $12 billion annually โ resulting in a loss of nearly 119,000 jobs & more than doubling teacher-to-student ratios in classrooms statewide.
The wind chill is 25 and there's a hulking Prime delivery guy on my street in a t-shirt and shorts driving with his van door open. He slightly resembled
@JohnFetterman
2020: when a story makes national news tying Garth Brooks, Barry Sanders, and Bernie Sanders together. And it's all a ridiculous misunderstanding. Because.
#ThatsSo2020
CNN's
@brianstelter
reached this Bethlehem man after the taping. From Stelter's newsletter:
"He didn't answer anything," Tubiana told me afterward. "He was lying through his teeth."
12 June 1929 | 90 years ago Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt. In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.'
#AnneFrank
#Anne90
#RT
Thousands of power outages across the Lehigh Valley. Here in Allentown... Again. Neighborhood got rocked. Tremendous wind, large hail, etc.
@NWS_MountHolly
@AlbertBurneko
I lost two grandparents to Alzheimer's. Trust me when I say I'm well versed in notes like this - we would leave them all over the house as my grandmother's mental faculties declined. On different sized paper. In different colored marker. They looked just. like. this.
Only half joking/kinda wondering if we can get
@SecretaryPete
to come back this way for the launch of our new site ๐ . The engagement today has been off the charts.
#TeamPete
is ๐ช๐ช.
I hope this advice is helpful to someone, but last time we had temps this cold, I had pipes freeze. If your pipes are in danger of freezing (long power outage, etc) shut off the valve that allows water to come into your house, then open all the faucets and let the pipes drain.
@dog_rates
This was not my dog, but was the best friend of my last pup. Her name was Holiday, and she fought a brave two-year battle with Lymphoma. She crossed the rainbow bridge a year ago this week and is missed very much.
#heckcancer
@SteveTSRA
Yup. People are going to blame VADot and take none of the responsibility of driving into a major snowstorm when officials were begging them to stay off the roads. And then blame the meteorologists for not giving enough warnings, etc. I feel for people stuck there, but...
@dog_rates
If Hugoโs parents see this and have any questions about the TPLO recovery ... please reach out. We feel very puppared to offer advice. โค๏ธ
Here were some of
@SecretaryPete
's remarks from the airport earlier. On Allentown: "Look at downtown. It reminds me a lot of home. There's a lot of South bends and a lot of downtown's out there. And when you have an airport like this, that can be a major economic engine."
@dog_rates
@Trupanion
Ms. Demeanor was the nickname of my very first dog. But no matter, 14/10 find them innocent of all charges by reason of adora-bull ness. ๐ถ๐
Breaking
@WLVRNews
via
@AP
: Mail-in voting in Pennsylvania has survived a legal challenge brought by some of the same Republican state representatives who voted for the legislation nearly three years ago. The state Supreme Court upheld the law 5 to 2 today.
As the national narrative picked up steam in recent weeks, headlines were screaming that Republicans were poised to make big midterm pickups.
A few days ago, trends in the Gen Z vote really started to emerge. The energy locally yesterday was evident.
โI think engaging more young voters is two-pronged," said
@Victorshi2020
. 1. Spending time where we are (online, college campuses) and 2. Democrats investing in registering us to vote and mobilizing us every day of every year"
The mysterious case of the missing dog ears. 12/10 for the magician-like vanishing act. Say โabracadabraโ and throw a ball to make them reappear.
@dog_rates
Not to pat myself on the back, but 5 years ago people told me I was crazy to move to Allentown. This here says if we spend more time building up instead of tearing down, good things happen. I โค๏ธ living in Allentown. We need more folks willing to be the change in their community.
@ABCWorldNews
@TomLlamasABC
It's time we stop using words like "mistaken" when these incidents happen. This family was a victim of racial profiling. You don't "mistake" a car for a motorcycle. And you don't handcuff a woman & children just b/c your dept policy on suspected stolen vehicles is badly written
A bit later this morning, I'll be covering
@SecretaryPete
and
@RepSusanWild
's visit to LVIA to see the ongoing construction of the new connector terminal. They'll be discussing funding used to upgrade terminals, baggage screening and air traffic control towers across the U.S.
@SamBrockNBC
@NBCNews
A wonderful woman in my neighborhood passed yesterday after battling Covid for over a month/hospitalized since mid-January. I can't help but think of her seeing this video. She was beloved by her friends and family. How that empty chair for her family now means so little to some
@LVwithLove
I was in line at Wegmans Saturday behind a woman saying they were "only" having 50 people this year "because of Covid" and she felt "very responsible" because "normally we have 150."
@SkinnerPm
I've heard this. From local cops walking beats in my neighborhood. In my city. And the scary part is asking yourself who and what is left when those folks are gone. But every day, it feels more and more selfish to ask them to stay.
It's going to be a big postmortem for a lot of us to poke and prod. But Lehigh students specifically told me they were way above expected voter registration and turnout.
A new data visualization tool from
@USDOT
shows roadway fatalities hotspots over a five year period (2016-2020). Each orange dot represents a fatal accident. Yikes.
The time has arrived ...
I will wrap my
@mcall
career today after 14 years and 23 days. My hire date was 5/4/2008. Here's what the front page looked like back then:
A quick personal ๐งต, as they say...
For the last 14 years, I've been fortunate enough to work and learn from some of the best journalists in the Lehigh Valley. But I'm down to one more week of the alarm going off before the sun comes up.
@JasonKander
There's an older couple in my neighborhood who came to me last year and asked, "Is your paper doing a story on people like us leaving the GOP?" They've been registered Republicans 50+ years. Now both registered Dems.
"We do live in a democracy, a model envied by many around the world. This model is something we have to continue to fight for, to protect and to cherish. It is not partisan for journalists to defend facts, decency and democracy." -
@brianstelter
as
#ElectionDay
arrives
๐๐๐
That sound you just heard is every meteorologist just tossing weather models out the window. This storm is out here dancing on its own and doing what it wants, and right now, it's a conveyor belt of white.
#snow
I walked right by the Joint around this time. Me and my little dog, too. She's bummed to have missed a chance for pats and head scritches from
@LeviFetterman
's people...
@dog_rates
@kyhumane
@Trupanion
Hi Ares. It is well known. hoomans cannot resist. the patented pittie smile. You will find. Your hoomans now. I just know it. xoxo Kona