{"id":192348,"date":"2026-05-14T15:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T15:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T15:27:08","slug":"university-of-scranton-hosts-state-senate-debate-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192348\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Scranton Hosts State Senate Debate (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania\u2019s 22nd Senatorial\u00a0District\u00a0Marty Flynn, the incumbent, and Jeffrey\u00a0Lake\u00a0participated\u00a0in a primary debate on Thursday, May 7, at The University of Scranton.<\/p>\n<p>Voters\u00a0filled\u00a0the Pearn Auditorium at Brennan Hall, where the debate was hosted by the University\u2019s Center for Ethics and Excellence in Public Service (CEEPS).<\/p>\n<p>The hourlong debate was moderated by Brian Snee, CEEPS director; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/0EX0XJMAwbw?si=Zbng--v-pfV2HrT_\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">livestreamed and broadcasted by ECTV<\/a>; and covered by\u00a0virtually all\u00a0media in Northeastern Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Among the media members in attendance were three local journalists \u2014\u00a0Donnie Collins of the Times-Tribune, Jake Higgins of the Times\u00a0Leader\u00a0and Borys Krawczeniuk of WVIA \u2014 who served as panelists and asked the candidates questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic candidates in Pennsylvania\u2019s 22nd Senatorial\u00a0District\u00a0Marty Flynn, the incumbent, and Jeffrey\u00a0Lake\u00a0participated\u00a0in a primary debate on Thursday, May 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[8254,6632,5638,178,180,179,40139,274],"class_list":["post-192348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-debate","tag-democratic","tag-primary-election","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-state-senate","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192348","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=192348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}