Mayor Doherty's Downtown Scranton Newsletter (Wilkes-Barre, Pittston: subdivision, living, safety)

[SteelCityRising]

I was just browsing the web site of the Scranton Times-Tribune to read about the closure of Cosgrove's Tavern, and I decided to click on one of the blatantly obvious hyper-links to the city's official web site just to see if it had been recently updated. To my astonishment I was met with not only the mayor's mug but also a listing of links to positive "press" about the city's impending renaissance (you can tell it's an election year).

I also found more information and links about a few downtown projects via this newsletter from the mayor:

http://www.scrantonpa.gov/images/Dow...talization.pdf

I hate to say it, but Chris Doherty sounds just like ME with our talk about "green living!"

[SteelCityRising]

Is it a bad omen that the link provided for the Connell Building project doesn't work?!

[Mr Yuk]

Get your hip boots on, its an election year...

Now I know why the city has been doing a good job of clearing roads during snow storms all of a sudden this year. Scranton has gone from one of the worst places to all of a sudden keeping the roads pretty well plowed and salted...even side streets. I'll bet this doesn't happen next year.

[NYRangers 2008]

Originally Posted by go phillies

Get your hip boots on, its an election year...

Now I know why the city has been doing a good job of clearing roads during snow storms all of a sudden this year. Scranton has gone from one of the worst places to all of a sudden keeping the roads pretty well plowed and salted...even side streets. I'll bet this doesn't happen next year.

I didn't think they did all that great of a job today. Could have been better in my opinion. Although better than 2 years ago.

[Mr Yuk]

Originally Posted by NYRangers 2008

I didn't think they did all that great of a job today. Could have been better in my opinion.

Comparing it to where I work in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton's roads were in great shape this morning. And I'm also comparing this to past years when the streets in Scranton wouldn't see a single plow.

Wilkes-Barre Blvd, one of the busiest streets in W-B, would have been good for snowmobiling this morning.

[SteelCityRising]

My subdivision's streets were plowed and salted twice today, and you can see bare pavement all around. Pittston Township gets my nod of approval as well. As recently as the early-2000s the road crews here SUCKED! Now they've been doing an excellent job!

[weluvpa]

That link didn't mention anything about the hundreds of thousands of available office and retail space that already exists in the currently empty and ghostly downtown.

Only items in which they have squandered taxpayer dollars on uneeded projects that will undoubtly sit empty like the crown jewel of Scranton the $16,000,000 white elephant known as the SOUTHERN UNION BUILDING.

Comparing yourself to a mayor that has buried his city under decades of debt, cut public safety, and spent millions upon millions of wasted dollars on nothing to honestly improve the way of life for the residents of his city is like comparing yourself to George W Bush.