Ernie Preate on his path from prosecuting historic Lackawanna County murder cases to prison reform

04/14/23 • 64 min

Former Lackawanna County District Attorney and Pennsylvania Attorney General Ernie Preate joins the News Engine Podcast for an extensive interview that details his rise to the top of county and state politics, his stunning fall, and his desire to reform prisons he helped fill.

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Meet the Scranton Priest who helped raise over $1 million to help fund Ukraine's freedom fight against Russia

Rev. Myron Myronyuk, the pastor of St. Vladimir Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Scranton, has spent the past year on a personal mission to help purchase supplies for soldiers from his Ukraine homeland. He purchases helmets, body armor, tourniquets, uniforms, boots, vehicles, drones, and medical supplies and ships everything to the front lines in Ukraine.
Father Myron speaks to the soldiers - including his twin brother Taras - weekly and offers spiritual and emotional support, confession, and therapy to the troops as he travels Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York for the supplies Ukrainian soldiers desperately need - all while running his parish on North 7th Avenue.
To support Ukraine's soldiers, people can send checks to St. Vladimir Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, 430 N. 7th Ave., Scranton, PA 18503, or call (570) 342-7023
Read more about Father Myron's work HERE.

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2023 Primary election analysis: Reassessment and Notarianni, the rise of Gaughan and McGloin, voting for change and the shrinking Democratic edge

The Times-Tribune politics reporter Borys Krawczeniuk breaks down the Primary election by taking a look at what happened to Jerry Notarianni and if reassessment was to blame.
Borys also digs into the emergence of Bill Gaughan onto the Lackawanna County stage, what Matt McGloin is going to need to learn to be a commissioner, and how local voters sought change and younger leadership.
Over the past several years Borys has been tracking a change in voter registration in Lackawanna County and Pennsylvania. The increase in the number of registered Republicans and a drop in the number of registered Democrats may have NEPA shifting toward purple instead of blue.
We also ask Borys about the changes voters made to the Scranton School Board, the re-emergence of Nibs Loughney in Dunmore, the first new mayor in Carbondale in almost 20 years, and what we can expect in November.

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