Just months after a controversial decision to grant a lease to a city employee, the Scranton City Council introduced a revised ethics code Monday with tougher restrictions on conduct for local officials and employees....
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...
The Scranton City Council voted 3-2 Monday evening to approve Mayor Bill Courtright's proposed budget for 2019. ...
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...
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....