Bob Caruso took me on a tour of downtown Wilkes-Barre yesterday. The Matt Cartwright for Congress office on Public Square was full of tables, phones and people, The Tim Holden HQ had signs in the windows but the doors were locked and looking in the win... »
Weekend: Your guide to entertainment in Northeast PennsylvaniaScranton Times-TribuneNORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA PHILHARMONIC: Here To Stay: The Music of Gershwin, Friday, 8 pm, Scranton Cultural Center at The Masonic Temple, 420 N. Washington Ave., and S... »
Once again, another frayed fiber has been torn from the continually unraveling quilt that is, er, that was the public’s confidence in it’s local leadership. A prominent local attorney is suspected of bilking tens of millions of dollars from other promi... »
Breaking news out of Wilkes-Barre: From this day forward, the Wilkes-Barre Zoning Board shall only rule against the wishes of white property owners.They have been warned.Yawn.Tell me if this makes any sense.The former commissioners of Luzerne County in... »
Forget the groundhog or the equinox, the first sign of Spring is Baseball! Today there was the first game between the Phillies and Yankees and the hope is to see these two teams play again in October.I've been a bit of a slacker on blogging lately beca... »
This is the full video report of last week’s council meeting that WBRE finally got around to posting. What I posted was all that my then-malfunctioning camera would allow me to capture. But it’s all better now.Former Wilkes-Barre Tow Truck driver squea... »
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with collecting every Matchbox vehicle ever produced. I did not succeed in this quest, but near as I could tell, I had to have come damn close.Back in those days, you only had to go as far as the nearby corner pharmacy ... »
The F.M. Kirby Center sold every seat in the house for Friday's Bob Weir concert, but few of the 1,800 audience members used them. The founding member of the Grateful Dead had fans on their feet from the moment he walked on stage at the Wilkes-Barre the »
