Him and his echo
RailRiders notes: Heller, Espinal, Frazier, homers
Heller’s setback, Espinal’s injury, Frazier’s defense and homer, after homer, after homer — here are some notes from the RailRiders’ homestand. Heller hopeful for quick return Ben Heller would rather be pitching, but considering where he’s coming from, hearing he had...
Opioid Inc. exposed
The Washington Post and Charleston (WV) Gazette-Mail examined the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's opioid database -- and the picture it paints of a drug industry more interested in profit than public health, crime and drug addiction -- is both fascinating and...
A little elbow grease
President Strangelove …
"... Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Racism." (Click here for related movie clip).
PHOTOS: 85th Annual Scranton Lions Club Dream Game
Are Trumpers racist? Trump is banking on it
Supporting President Trump has always required a stubborn willingness to look the other way, but his latest crimes against American ideals and simple decency put even passive Trumpers at risk for whiplash. After a news cycle in which Congressional Republicans and...
A new address
With apologies to invertebrates everywhere …
PHOTOS: Greater Pittston Area Wins Section 5 Little League Championship over Back Mountain
Deivi’s debut
Yankees 20-year-old pitching prospect Deivi Garcia made his Triple-A debut Monday, tossing five innings in the RailRiders' game against Columbus, the top team in the International League that came into the game with a 31-13 record on the road. Garcia allowed one run...
PHOTOS: Abington Wins 9-10-11 Little League Sectional Over Back Mountain
Charl-Mont tax-exempt status half-baked
The kerfuffle over whether the new Charl-Mont at the Lackawanna County Government Center at the Globe should be tax-exempt is the example du jour of what happens when there are too many commissioners in the kitchen. A resurrected Charl-Mont was the political fever...
The deodorizer
Civics lesson
Throwing Uncle Joe under the bus
"Politics ain't beanbag," the fictional Mr. Dooley once observed. So it should have come as little surprise to former vice-president and Scranton native Joe Biden that elements of his long political career could and would be used against him, fairly or not. Case in...
Courtright was a cheap date
One of the most shocking elements of the Bill Courtright corruption scandal is how cheaply the ex-mayor and admitted felon could be bought. As Times-Tribune Staff Writer Jim Lockwood reports today,Northeast Revenue Service, the firm contracted to collect delinquent...
With apologies to Ken Kesey
Seeing stars
Landfill review blurs big picture
The state Department of Environmental Protection's "environmental assessment" of the proposed 40-plus-year expansion of Keystone Sanitary Landfill is a classic example of The Big Picture being blurred by excessive focus. In a letter released Monday, the department...
