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At the corner of Seventh and Hamilton Streets, in Allentown's city center, gleaming office towers, a hockey arena and stylish new restaurants have replaced sagging buildings and empty storefronts. It's a transformation so profound that it filled residents with the hope that, after years of economic struggle, this linchpin of the Lehigh Valley had finally turned a corner. But when federal agents, armed with search warrants, marched into Allentown City Hall two weeks ago, seizing cell phones, computers and other electronic devices, the downtown revitalization that was supposed to be Democratic Mayor Ed Pawlowski's legacy very suddenly began to look like his undoing. Now, Pawlowski, a would-be candidate for U.S. Senate who has yet to be accused of anything or even charged with a crime, is answering almost daily questions about whether he plans to resign. Click here to read the article.
At the corner of Seventh and Hamilton Streets, in Allentown's city center, gleaming office towers, a hockey arena and stylish new restaurants have replaced sagging buildings and empty storefronts.
It's a transformation so profound that it filled residents with the hope that, after years of economic struggle, this linchpin of the Lehigh Valley had finally turned a corner.
But when federal agents, armed with search warrants, marched into Allentown City Hall two weeks ago, seizing cell phones, computers and other electronic devices, the downtown revitalization that was supposed to be Democratic Mayor Ed Pawlowski's legacy very suddenly began to look like his undoing.
Now, Pawlowski, a would-be candidate for U.S. Senate who has yet to be accused of anything or even charged with a crime, is answering almost daily questions about whether he plans to resign.
Click here to read the article.