Distant and icy, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti remains publicly silent about recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol killings in Minneapolis. Aloof reserve from this Democratic congressional candidate in Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District and too-cool-for-her-own-good opportunistic public servant should come as no surprise. In a 28/22news.com television interview one year ago Cognetti even […]
Dumped carelessly on its side in an East Gibson Street snow bank, the child’s bike lay abandoned for days. Before it fell somebody at least leaned the blue Huffy Rock It kid’s bike against a tree. My first thought was that some Hill Section hooligan stole the bike and ditched it when an impromptu joyride […]
Bathed in orange sunshine and perched on a wooden boat dock railing overlooking the Intracoastal Waterway in Clearwater Beach, Florida, the seagull smoothed her feathers, cocked her head and stared at me. “I know, Margot,” I said. “I know.” My editor and manager Stephanie to whom I am married grinned at me from across the […]
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 […]
