Knock Out Racism 

June 27, 2022 Steve Corbett 0

Decades later I read how Ali unloaded the same hot question he threw at me when he encountered other white reporters during his legendary career and life fighting racism and oppression. 

Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, & Your Mexicans

February 3, 2022 Steve Corbett 0

by Steve Corbett – Greetings From Scranton Local yokel news talk radio and braying white nationalist social media “broke” the shocking news story. Vague newspaper and television reports followed suit. Scurrilous false rumors spread throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania neighborhood bars, supermarkets and other overwhelmingly white ethnic gatherings. Non-English speaking children, for […]

Kamala Come Home

January 1, 2022 Steve Corbett 0

by Steve Corbett Greetings From Scranton Call this tale a color portrait of two cities. Scranton, PA, stands as the historic birthplace of President Joe Biden. Oakland, CA, holds its own as the birthplace of Vice President Kamala Harris. Scranton and Oakland reign as officially designated sister cities. Strong women […]

Guns and Prisons Kill People

December 7, 2021 Steve Corbett 0

by Steve Corbett Alone and desperate in his cell, Mark Glaze hung himself October 28 in the scandal-ridden Lackawanna County Prison in Scranton, PA. Locked up on drunken driving and other charges after he fled police in September, the national gun control champion died October 31 in a city hospital. […]

Bonkers Biden Goes Off the Rails

November 7, 2021 Steve Corbett 0

by Steve Corbett By the time I got home from President Joe Biden’s Scranton speech last month, I stood with my official White House issued Gonzo Today press credential hanging from my neck, fuming in the kitchen, threatening to tear off my white dress shirt without unbuttoning the buttons. My […]

Living on Biden Street

September 1, 2021 Steve Corbett 0

by Steve Corbett – Greetings from Scranton Worried that conquest, war, famine and death frame our species’ current hell on earth? Fear not. Come to Biden Street. City officials here in President Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania birthplace recently approved a resolution to rename good old-fashioned Spruce Street as Biden Street, rechristening […]