Former Harrisburg Authority board member questions Mayor Linda Thompson's motives for not reinstalling board

Fromt the Patriot News:

The saga of the Harrisburg Authority's long, winding and bankrupting road to transparency has taken another hit, prompting Harrisburg environmental attorney Bill Cluck to counter Mayor Linda Thompson's decision to nominate three new members instead of reinstalling the previous board.

On Monday, Thompson took advantage of a state Supreme Court decision to vacate the existing board and nominated the former chairman, J. Marc Kurowski, to stay on the board.

Three names submitted are new, including: Harry Witte, a professor at Widener University School of Law; Barton Fields, a former state official, city school board member and longtime Harrisburg area civil rights leader; and Cathy Hall, a 2008 council appointee to the authority who served through 2009.

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