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City Confidential / 07.12.2018

Who needs cable when Scrantonians can attend Scranton School Board meetings?  This week your favorite cast returned for the premiere of their new season.  They never fail to deliver the high drama, laughs, and controversy avid viewers have come to expect. The directors, minus Greg Popil (more on that later), met Monday night for their annual re-organization meeting.  Almost immediately, chaos ensued.  Directors shouted over one another as five different members - Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, Barbara Dixon, Katie Gilmartin, and Tom Schuster - were nominated for President.  Gilmartin was defeated in a 5-4 vote, with Robert Casey, Dixon, Paul Duffy, Bob Lesh (BL!), and Popil voting...

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City Confidential / 28.09.2018

The Scranton School District is embroiled in a web of scandal and dysfunction rarely seen in the annals of Lackawanna County politics.  The arrest of one time fleet manager  Daniel Sansky on charges that he defrauded taxpayers by overbilling for work performed at Danny's Auto Body comes as little surprise to those familiar with the findings of Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale in the 2017 performance audit report of district operations.  A teacher phoned yesterday to remind us that this is all the tip of the iceberg. Bob Lesh disputes that he is the "BL" listed in the indictment.  It's a hard case to make...

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Politics / 11.09.2018

Councilman Bill Gaughan successfully introduced a motion at Monday's City Council meeting instructing solicitor Amil Minora to draft a new ethics code for Scranton officials. The move comes in response to the actions of Pat Hinton, the city’s licensing, inspection, and codes manager, who was awarded the lease of an unused Nay Aug Park restroom for use as a private gourmet coffee shop....

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Politics / 10.09.2018

Pat Hinton’s lease of a Nay Aug Park building to open a coffee shop does not violate the city’s ethics code, according to his cousin attorney Timothy Hinton. The process was transparent. So transparent that Councilman Wayne Evans was briefed multiple times on the matter and even visited the restroom that the city manager wants to turn into a side business....

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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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