Inflated with cold December air a white plastic bag from the ice cream store blew across the barren asphalt parking lot like a lone holiday balloon adrift in a ghostly parade. Inside the Asian Taste restaurant aromatic smells of sizzling Chinese food filled the room. Sitting alone at a table for two, an Asian man […]
Our lost immigrant child will spend the holiday with her father in a dangerous land she never really knew. Yet, the impact of her angelic sprit lives in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, among friends who love her in the town she called home for most of her life. Now living in Honduras with her father Concepción, who […]
When the White House approved my press credential request many of you expected me to personally cover President Donald Trump’s recent Northeastern Pennsylvania appearance at the Mt. Airy Casino Resort. Sorry to disappoint you. I never intended to subject myself to such a tawdry spectacle. I can get into a neo-nutsy Klan meeting without press […]
If crime never sleeps why didn’t anybody answer the telephone at Luzerne County District Attorney Sam Sanguedolce’s office when I called 570-825-1674 at 1:13 p.m. and 1:14 p.m. on Friday? I let the phone ring and ring and ring until the ringing automatically turned into a busy signal. Who knows what mayhem might have been […]
She’s gone but not forgotten. Or is she forever forsaken? I’ve asked several local Dunmore and state elected officials to help me locate our frightened 11-year-old after federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents on Oct. 29 apprehended the undocumented sixth grader and her father. Did federal agents deport her and her father back to […]
