Friday, March 16, 2012

Daily Briefing, 3/16/2012

Good morning everyone!  Here is today's Daily Briefing.

Lehigh Valley unemployment dropped in January to 8.2%.  Northampton County judges have selected Robert Pfenning has the new Bethlehem Controller after Bethlehem City Council could not come to an agreement.  Northampton County Council unanimously approved the creation of a Gracedale Advisory Council.  Lehigh County has extended the deadline to file informal reassessment appeals by one week.

In state-wide news, former State Senator Robert Mellow (D) has been charged with fraud in federal court on allegations that he used state employees to do political work.

In national news, the new iPad arrives in stores today.  Former Illinois Governor Blogojevich has begun serving his time in prison.

We have two Chamber events today: an LGBT meet & greet mixer and SBC event on marketing.

That's it for now!  We'll have one guest blog entry later today; happy Friday!
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