Chris Kelly Opinion: One step forward, 101 million steps back
Archbald Borough Council’s unanimous rejection of the Wildcat Ridge Data Center Campus application inspired a jubilant “Yellow Wave”…
Chris Kelly Opinion: ‘Purple Paige,’ ‘Moderate Rob’ and data centers
Nutritionally speaking, Thursday’s debate between U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan and Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti was mostly a “baloney”…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Archbald inspires beyond borders
Over the past year, I’ve broadly noted the widespread notoriety and influence of Archbald’s fight against industrialized annihilation,…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Muth more popular than porketta
Katie Muth isn’t running for governor, but she’s the strongest write-in candidate for the job in Pennsylvania history.…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Today’s flawed concept is tomorrow’s disaster
In the midst of a long, repetitive process, it’s easy to get lost in the fog of monotony…
Chris Kelly Opinion: What would ‘Eddie’ do?
Over an astonishing 14 terms as state representative for the former 115th District, Ed Staback took strong stands…
Chris Kelly Opinion: A belated but timely study in prevention
On Wednesday, Lackawanna County started a doomsday clock for invasive AI hyperscale data center developers. Commissioners Bill Gaughan,…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Last thoughts on Bob Bolus – Scranton Times-Tribune
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him,” – the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Wildcat Ridge goes out with a whimper
The longer the wait and the more earnest the anticipation of a moment, the more anticlimactic its eventual…
Chris Kelly Opinion: The data center invasion has no borders
I’ve heard the shared stakes in resisting invasive hyperscale data center development described countless times over the past…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Speaking ‘Frankly’ on data centers
In almost any setting, I find the presence of Frank Scavo intolerably toxic. I was happy to see…
Chris Kelly Opinion: Allied citizens vs. ‘The Nerd Reich’
By the time James Cianci brought up the atomic bomb, Ansel had taken shelter under the table. Ansel…