Chris Kelly Opinion: Massacre on the mountain
History is riddled with the bitter ends of heedless leaders who rode into battle against insurmountable odds and…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Recovery is Divine Mercy
My sedan gets better gas mileage, but Chrissy drives the pickup to work. It’s newer and doesn’t smell…
Gaughan ‘grandstands’ while colleagues sit on hands
“A man who won’t stand for something will fall for anything.” — widely attributed to Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)…
From tattered tent to new life
Shivering in the raw January wind, the exhausted young woman scurried away from the smiling strangers toward her…
Bread, circuses and Bad Bunny vs. ‘Meth Elvis’
The teams taking the field in Sunday’s Super Bowl are of little interest to fans outside of New…
On data centers, officials need to read the room
Lackawanna County Commissioner Bill Gaughan delivered the first stump speech of his presumed 2027 reelection campaign on Wednesday…
Momentum builds against data centers
In any contest of wills, momentum matters. The more consistently one side imposes its will upon the other…
Data centers bring ‘up da line’ down to Scranton
Our shared regional backyard got bigger Thursday night. Dozens of Ransom Twp. homeowners and residents of neighboring communities…
Data centers call for hawks, not canaries
Emilia Doda could comfortably be characterized as a “canary in the coal mine” of AI data center development.…
DEP hearing exposes gravity of data center speculation
Tuesday’s state Department of Environmental Protection hearing on “Project Gravity” was billed as an opportunity for the public…
Gaughan, Welby and Chermak prove ‘Three’s a Crowd’
Even those too young to remember when programming was monopolized by three major corporate networks are at least…
Mike Stevens made ‘small’ things sing
Some voices ring beyond our ears, soothing feelings, frustrations and fears that blind us to quiet comforts that…