Bootleg anthracite mining might be my single favorite Pennsylvania eccentricity
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I don't think he is related to the shoe company, however he may well be related to the underwear company.
Kingston used to be where the old money was. As you go along Wyoming Avenue (Route 11) , there's a lot of mini-mansions.
When I used to work for Prudential, which was located right behind WNEP studios; we used to go for a walk after lunch and often they'd be doing the mid-day weather outside, live facing the road formerly known as "E D Preate" drive.
There was a running bet to get up at just the right time and yell "Vince said it would be like this"; (NEPA rival WBRE 28's tag-line for its weather broadcast). At the time the chief meteorologist was Tom Clark and his wife Noreen was also on staff. Couldn't do it, though, the Clarks are nice folks.
Wilkes Barre and Luzerne/Lackawanna have GREAT pizza
I understand Altoona is famous for its pizza, too. Just not in a good way. 😎
Just import some eyetalians to Oklahoma and they'll figure the pizza s*** out
Didn't they try that with the Ferraris?
A lot of beautiful homes along the river.
I do have to disagree. I have relatives in Iowa.
On their worse day, they are smarter, nicer and more productive than some of the trash from Philadelphia. Especially the trash that comes to Harrisburg to do things like enact gas taxes to pay for SEPTA busses and trains and obtain permission to charge extra sales taxes to support the graft and grift.
My antipathy is limited to twin psycho-squirrels that have run and ruined the Iowa program.
Iowa doesn't have this kind of stuff. (yet). I'm shocked Philly is still standing after Sunday night.
Iowa biggest city is DSM and they've a few issues but nothing like that shit hole called Philly. Iowa is like living in the 80s. Love visiting the people are so friendly and the kids still hold the door for you. People are definitely raised differently in Iowa
That's exactly why I live in Maine!!
Johnstown's nice this time of year. Winter is really the only time I go down town. Ya don't have all the foot traffic from the halfway houses, Section 8 housing, and meth clinics like you get in the summer time.
The gas tax does support SEPTA (public transportation) - in addition to the PA State Police, bridge and road maintenance all across the state. I'm not sure how any of those qualify as non-productive.
From the tone of your post, I expect you don't think that graft and grift occur outside "big" cities, despite basically centuries of evidence (actually all of recorded human history) that small, rural towns are the place it thrives the most because of lack of oversight.
There's many reasons that Shamokin is the place that it is and none of them have to do with Philadelphia.
The gas tax does support SEPTA (public transportation) - in addition to the PA State Police, bridge and road maintenance all across the state. I'm not sure how any of those qualify as non-productive.
From the tone of your post, I expect you don't think that graft and grift occur outside "big" cities, despite basically centuries of evidence (actually all of recorded human history) that small, rural towns are the place it thrives the most because of lack of oversight.
There's many reasons that Shamokin is the place that it is and none of them have to do with Philadelphia.
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Shamokin has nothing to do with my post, but feel free to wander like sheep.
And from the tone of your post, I expect that you think it is productive when people fueling up in Coudersport get to pay extra so the folks riding SEPTA pay less. How about we have a tax on SEPTA rides that pays for roads and bridges in Potter County? When I'm forced to pay for somebody else's busses and trains that's the very soul of corruption.
Apparently you think the overseers are incorrupt. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I grew up in Luzerne County, so I know more about grift and graft than you can imagine. We were all reminded of it when Biden commuted the sentence of "cash for kids" judge Michael Conahan on the way out. Sucks to be partner in crime Mark Ciavarella, huh?
But in Philly, it's at scale.
Why at least 39 Philly politicians got investigated over the last 15 years
In Philadelphia politics, it seems like some elected official is always being investigated, indicted, charged or convicted.billypenn.com
This post was before Chaka Fattah's 2016 conviction.
"Oversight". You have any other magic fairy dust you believe in?
My uncle was a lead investigator for one of PA's state law enforcement agencies. At a family gathering I made a comment about Clearfield County being so corrupt it made Hazzard county of "The Dukes of Hazzard" fame look down right squeaky clean. My uncle laughed out loud and said "you have no idea how accurate you are."
being from Clearfield (but not living there for 40 years) this is interesting. Anything to add - examples? I currently live in henrico county - outside of Richmond Va - where i would say city government is a challenge
Use to keep local cops on call to go pick up county judge (since dead) every time he got pulled over drinking and driving, multiple times a week. From the bench he of course was the hardest ass in the state at throwing the book (with a lecture) at anybody before him for the same offense.being from Clearfield (but not living there for 40 years) this is interesting. Anything to add - examples? I currently live in henrico county - outside of Richmond Va - where i would say city government is a challenge
A clearfield county drug bust generally means 48 people arrested with 3 marijuana cigarettes between them, a gram of coke with 178 dollars. Yet many folks who make a very good living managing drug sales are never bothered.
Just a couple examples.
yea, I wouldn't think this is that unusual... my dad was a cop in the '60s when he got out of the service. Never got many stories but heard a few (officers taking advantage of things - shooting rabbits, etc.
)Shot a possum from my porch in a centre county borough. Borough chief of police was my neighbor. Came over and yelled at me (us) about discharging a fire arm in the borough. I invited him to stay for a beer, he yelled over his shoulder i can't i have to go call your dad and tell him he raised an asshole.yea, I wouldn't think this is that unusual... my dad was a cop in the '60s when he got out of the service. Never got many stories but heard a few (officers taking advantage of things - shooting rabbits, etc.
Apparently you missed the part about Luzerne County.
Flood, Dan
Skrepenak, Greg (yes the former UMich NFL'r)
Greco, Tom
Lokuta, Ann
Musto Ray
Conahan, Micheal & Ciavarella, Mark.
Keep in mind Lackawanna adjoins Luzerne. (List is too long). Supposedly Richard J Daily once said he wished he had a machine like Scrantons.
But Philadelphia is to fraud what Penn State is to wrestling.
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After 88 years of paying an 18% excise tax (that's when it takes every 82 cents up to a buck, so it's really more like 22%) on every bottle of booze sold in PA for the reconstruction of Johnstown, I'm not sure our resident Johnstown resident is getting our money's worth.
Judge John Reilly was a horrible man. He went to Penn State and Dickinson School of Law to add insult to injury. He would definitely drive drunk seven days a week and throw the book at anyone for anything. We have another shady judge that’s done after this year. Thank the lord are DA is probably going to win his seat, he’s a honest good guy.
ha. makes me chuckle to myself how everyone thinks Walter Cronkite and those days of newscast was 'truthful'. Based on this, and reading The Progress' - they may have been truthful but but the truth was what they were told. Don't ever recall reading anything about said corruption. Critical thinking - never to old to do!
I'm a Berks County kid, you can say it. There are no wrestling powerhouse schools in Berks, except maybe Berks Catholic. Maybe, and that's several tiers below the Sem/McCort/Becca level private schools.
I think you are the third berks county rep that I know of on this board then . I am Conrad Weiser alum
No idea , they probably graduated 20 years after I did. I only followed them through my mom keeping me up to date . Pretty sure they were the most successful from CW , after they went to university of NC not sure what happened
There's been a nice Wyo to PSU football pipeline the last few years. I graduated from Governor Mifflin.
They were never known for their wrestling program (sorry Jan Johnson) but I think they were one of the first in the area to start a girls team. Sounds like the girls youth program is pretty healthy.
Hopefully J'ven Williams will get some playing time next year. My son and I went to the PIAA semis a couple years ago where they throttled Neuman Goretti because it was played close to us in Bucks. We estimated that about 1/4 of the boys in the high school were dressed for the football team, which is astonishing (especially since they usually have a good soccer team and cross country as well). My brother is in the WFA Hall of Fame. He was All-Berks on the first Wyo team that won districts in 1990. I quit football after 9th grade. Wrestling interfered with football because I was too small to play in the line in high school and too slow to play anywhere else.
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