Twenty dollars didn’t go far at Clayt’s anymore even if Critter was just drinking beer. After banging down seven shot and beer boilermakers he had to close his clutch-side eye on the way home to keep the lights from oncoming vehicles from blinding him and sending his trusty old rat bike flying into a tree, […]
Scranton native and former President Joe Biden’s latest memoir Promise Me, America will soon be released. Let’s hope the publisher promises America to spare readers Biden’s further sugarcoated glorification of his son, the late Beau Biden, the way the former commander-in-chief did in his 2017 book Promise Me, Dad. The late decorated Marine Sgt. Derek […]
The best journalists at America’s most prestigious newspapers agree local journalism shapes the heart of democracy. The Scranton City News is as local as journalism gets. Editor Stephanie Bressler and I produce investigative coverage and commentary on par with some of Pennsylvania’s best reporters and columnists, digging into stories the biggest newspapers in the state […]
Grinning like the Mad Hatter in a hillbilly backwoods wonderland, that’s Dr. Tom in the photograph. Perry County’s explosive jester not only sells fireworks on the Susquehanna Trail in Newport, Pennsylvania, but is a human firecracker, a walking, talking, biological bottle rocket burning at both ends as brightly as any incendiary device he sells or […]
After a turn or two on a twisty Cove mountain road, the party for my new book is back to its original time on Saturday, October 3, at Buddy Boy Winery in the Cove near Duncannon, Pennsylvania. Between 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. I’ll sell, sign and read a few wild pages from Up Shit […]
