{"id":175106,"date":"2026-04-24T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175106\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:33:08","slug":"scranton-mayor-presents-positive-outlook-in-2026-state-of-the-city-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/175106\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Mayor presents positive outlook in 2026 State of the City address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                        Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti presents positive outlook in 2026 State of the City address<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Paige Cognetti described a Scranton that\u2019s less analog, safer in part thanks to technology and providing for its residents during the annual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-04-23\/scranton-mayor-paige-cognetti-presents-positive-outlook-in-2026-state-of-the-city-address\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">State of the City address.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Terminal headed for $13.6M expansion as Chermak hints he might want to run airport<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvia.org\/news\/local\/2026-04-23\/terminal-headed-for-13-6m-expansion-as-chermak-hints-he-might-want-to-run-airport\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport\u2019s terminal expansion<\/a> is expected to begin in September, an airport official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The airport board approved almost $13.6 million in construction-related contracts at a meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia City Council passes landmark \u2018ICE Out\u2019 legislation<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia City Council on Thursday passed a package of seven bills <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-ice-out-legislation-passes-city-council\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">restricting immigration enforcement activities in the city <\/a>with a veto-proof majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti presents positive outlook in 2026 State of the City address Mayor Paige Cognetti described&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-175106","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}