Scranton School Director Bob Lesh has denied that he is the "BL" listed in the indictment and did not address the report's findings at the public meeting....
City Confidential is back after a two-week hiatus. We're glad we scheduled our vacation before all of the fireworks at the Scranton School District. Here's what you missed ...
Rosemary Boland, the head of the Scranton Federation of Teachers, wants the sixteen teachers laid off by the Scranton School District back to work when school starts next week. This time, who could blame her? At Monday's Board of Education meeting, directors voted 3-3 on a motion to finalize staff reductions adopted in January. The tie caused the motion to fail and calling into questions whether the cuts would go through and the teachers remain on the unemployment line. Kudos to Robert Casey, Paige Gebhardt Cognetti, Barbara Dixon, and Kate Gilmartin, Mark McAndrew, and Tom Schuster. Regardless of one's opinion on...
Scranton's school directors shocked observers Monday by failing to vote to finalize the lay off of sixteen teachers for the coming school year....
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,...