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Life / 22.01.2019

Liberal lion and former Pennsylvania United States Senator Harris L. Wofford died yesterday in Washington, D.C.  A Democrat, Wofford marched with Martin Luther King, served in the Kennedy White House as special assistant for civil rights, helped establish the Peace Corps, led Bryn Mawr College, and served in the cabinet of Governor Robert P. Casey.  He was 92. According to the Associated Press, Wofford died from complications from a fall taken in his Washington, D.C. apartment. The liberal intellectual was a rare breed in Pennsylvania politics.  Born in New York City, he was a lifetime advocate of national service and volunteering.  As...

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City Confidential / 19.01.2019

Political insiders were abuzz this week as calculations were made and some bets taken on the future viability of Mayor William L. Courtright.  There were frantic phone calls last weekend that the Old Man was going to throw in the towel. "He'll do the honorable thing," said one Lackawanna County Democrat.  Courtright was going to resign. By Sunday night, the Mayor made clear through the press and his intermediaries: he is innocent and he is not going anywhere. Here is what we know: FBI agents executed search warrants and conducted a raid of City Hall and the Mayor's West Mountain home on Wednesday,...

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