12 Oct City Confidential: Week of 10/7/18

Scranton School District Superintendent Alexis Kirijan made the news this week and she was not happy.  The Scranton Times-Tribune reports that in June Kirijan’s attorney notified the School Board that his client had been sexually harassed by an unnamed school director.  The superintendent is not happy about this public disclosure and wants to know who leaked the information.  We usually take a tongue in cheek approach to the foibles of our friends at SSD, but in the age of #MeToo, there’s no place for the kind of behavior Kirijan alleges.  Our hope is someone gets to the bottom of it.

Was President Donald Trump serious when he said he wanted to privatize the U.S. Postal Service?  Democratic Congressman Matt Cartwright and about fifty postal workers think so.  Cartwright’s team staged a rally this week opposing the move.  With John Chrin going for the affable incumbent’s jugular, our bet is their internal polling shows him ahead enough to focus on the humdrum.

Carol Oleski passed away this week after her battle with lung cancer.  Our condolences to her family and friends.  She was a volunteer who did her best and cared deeply about the children of the Electric City.

Still no word from Mayor Bill Courtright on Pat Hinton‘s sweetheart deal.