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Pissi Myles, center, a special contributor with Happs News, a live news source that streams through Twitter, reports with her cell phone, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, during the first public impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump’s efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.
Veteran Scranton Fringe Festival performer Pissi Myles is a familiar face on stages here and in New York City, but she took her bigger-than-life persona to a new spot today — the public impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Myles is at the hearings working as a special contributor with Happs News, a live news source that streams through Twitter, according to the Associated Press.
In September, the singer, comedian and humorist led the Fringe Festival’s drag brunch and emceed its annual Big Gay Scranton StorySlam. She also has appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine and on RuPaul’s “What’s the Tee?” podcast.
The first public impeachment hearings are focusing on President Donald Trump’s alleged efforts to link American aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.
NOW: Is today the day you will tell your grandchildren about? Historic #ImpeachmentHearings have started. Join @jackbury in #WashingtonDC and @matchoo13 in #LA w/ journalism students. #NetworkOfNow #Trump #Impeachment #CapitolHill https://t.co/Hz6jSbIc3o
— Happs (@HappsNews) November 13, 2019
Caitlin Heaney West is the content editor for Access NEPA and oversees the Early Access blog in addition to working as a copy editor and staff writer for The Times-Tribune. An award-winning journalist, she is a summa cum laude graduate of Shippensburg University and also earned a master’s degree from Marywood University. Caitlin joined the Times-Shamrock family in 2009 and lives in Scranton. Contact: cwest@timesshamrock.com; 570-348-9100 x5107; or @cheaneywest
