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City Confidential / 17.08.2018

  Scrantonians know what a pain it can be commuting I-81 to and from work on a good day.  This week’s heavy rain caused a waterfall that flooded and closed the road near River Street.  The shutdown may have been on the minds of those who gathered at City Hall Wednesday night to discuss PENDOT’s plan to conduct massive rehabilitation work next year in the vicinity of the Central Scranton Expressway.  It looks like another winter of slow going on one of the region’s busiest stretches of highway. Some City Hall insiders are smarting over news that Pat Hinton, city licensing, inspection,...

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Crime / 16.08.2018

James Timlin served as Bishop of the Diocese of Scranton from 1984 to 2003.  In the twelves months before he retired, ten priests were removed from the parishes due to abuse allegations and the diocese faced federal lawsuits. Tuesday's grand jury report revealed that Timlin covered up the rape and abortion of a minor child. In 2003, the bishop declined an invitation to attend the commencement ceremonies of the University of Scranton. Reason? He publicly criticized the Jesuit school for inviting television host Chris Matthews to speak at the event. He described Matthews as an abortion-rights advocate and refused to share...

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Crime / 15.08.2018

On Tuesday, the Pennsylvania Attorney General released a grand jury report documenting seven decades of child sexual abuse in the Keystone State's Roman Catholic churches. Over 300 accused priests are listed by name.  The grand jury alleges that church leaders, the Diocese of Scranton among them, covered up the scope and frequency of these crimes to protect abusers and the church's reputation. The report, the result of a two year investigation, is the first of its kind to examine abuse in the Catholic Church on a statewide level.  It reviewed 500,000 pages of documents turned over by the Dioceses of Allentown,...

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