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Protect and Serve Yourself

March 21, 2024

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 […]

Kiss Me, I’m Sexist

March 14, 2024

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 […]

We Bend to No One

March 11, 2024

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 […]

Breakfast at Bobby’s

January 12, 2024

Already bloated business swells and other ill-intentioned corporate capitalists bellied up to the trough this morning for yet another downtown Scranton Chamber of Commerce breakfast, this time embracing dull company man and U.S. Sen. Bobby Casey as featured speaker. Raising Palestinian flags and protest placards, about a dozen of Casey’s constituents lined the sidewalk in […]

Hot Dog Soup

December 18, 2023

Grandpa fell off the commode Saturday night, busting open his head on the edge of the already cracked white porcelain sink. Hubby Frank drove home drunk from the afternoon show at Butts and Bolts gentlemen’s club on his Harley Fat Boy, fighting off multiple images of oncoming headlights in several lanes of traffic. The kids […]

The Outlaw Steve Corbett ink splotch