Back in 2021 city officials in President Joe Biden’s Scranton, Pennsylvania birthplace renamed good old-fashioned Spruce Street as Biden Street, rechristening a traditional byway as a new and improved posh and prestigious address. To make matters worse, Scranton City Council also renamed the Central Scranton Expressway as the President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Expressway. Commonly […]
Frigid wind blew across the top of iced grave markers at Cathedral Cemetery Sunday when Joe Silvestri and Brad Varney pulled Joe’s red Subaru to the side of the historic graveyard road. Stepping from the car graced with a Purple Heart license plate they shook hands with old friends who arrived early. To commemorate the […]
Of all the crack security guards U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright could have hired to defend him from terrorist attack, the 8th District congressman from Northeastern Pennsylvania chose Leonard Namiotka. But how much protection can Democrat Cartwright expect from a retired Scranton cop who accidentally shot himself in the hand in 2009 while off duty and […]
No better gender equality battle cry exists than “Women’s rights are human rights.” Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose paternal family roots run deep in Scranton and who should be president, spoke those mighty words. Now Hillary’s hubby Bill is headed to Scranton as featured speaker at Saturday’s annual all-male Friendly Sons of St. Patrick of Lackawanna […]
My father Shamus taught me to always fight one more round. Nobody can beat you if you fight one more round. Back on January 20, 2020, I published a column on my website that introduced a new online news site called THE SCRANTON NEWS. I wrote the news. Feminist political scientist, activist and former college […]
