Allentown Backwards With Mayor Tuerk

Victor Martinez has a Spanish radio station, that's his business model. Matt Tuerk has bi-lingual city reports, that's his business model. However, as the mayor it isn't really a courtesy, it's more of a real world  disservice. Those who cannot understand English don't have much chance of a good future in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Besides for announcing where to take English as a second language class, there is no productive reason for his bi-lingual posts. If Matt could only speak Spanish he wouldn't be mayor.

But worse than the language babel, is the traffic babel. I cannot shake the feeling that the lax enforcement of traffic laws is another cultural accommodation. We certainly know that enforcing noise and litter ordinances have been long ignored.

Unfortunately for everyone living in the city, the slippery slope of lax enforcement is coming home to roost. Apparently, Tuerk hasn't really learned much on all his out of town and out of country conferences. Maybe if one of those guns being pointed more and more at people was pointed at him, he would realize that either he must untie police chief Roca's hands, and/or replace him.