Kenny “Duff” Duffin died in 2023 without knowing he gave me the long-ago gift of his example to create a fictitious character in one of my novels, a Black hero who resists prejudice and fights for social justice. Duff’s strong spirit helps guide me as a writer to breathe resistance into America’s continuing struggle against […]
A long time ago some smart-ass started telling what came to be known as Pat and Mike jokes, slurs meant to mock the Irish. Irish Americans eventually laughed loudest. Countless descendants of the old sod even embraced the monkey-faced Notre Dame leprechaun as one of us, a mean-spirited caricature that proves a sad irony at […]
“Go with the flow,” Harry whispered to us a few weeks before he died. Harry shared this same mantra with me and his first cousin Stephanie Bressler when we stayed at the Lark in May. Stephanie and Harry grew up together as children in the ‘50s living a block away from each other in Tower […]
All bets are hopefully off at American Legion Post 568 in the Minooka section of Scranton. But getting Democratic Pennsylvania House of Representatives lawmaker Kyle Donahue, who represents Minooka and serves as a majority member of the House of Representatives Gaming Oversight Committee, to take illegal gambling in his own backyard seriously is nothing but […]
All truth seekers are members of the PRESS. For that reason People for the Responsible Empowerment of Strong Support for journalism (PRESS) will rally Friday, September 5, at 6 p.m. at the WBRE-TV/28/WYOU-TV/22 downtown Scranton news bureau at 150 Adams Avenue on the corner of Adams Avenue and Biden Street. Our demonstration challenges the lack […]
