{"id":3920,"date":"2025-10-16T11:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3920\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:38:17","slug":"university-hosting-scranton-mayor-county-commissioner-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3920\/","title":{"rendered":"University Hosting Scranton Mayor, County Commissioner Debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the next few weeks, voters will have an opportunity to visit The University of Scranton and hear directly from candidates in two important and high-profile elections on the ballot in the Nov. 4 general election.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Mayoral Debate will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, at the PNC Auditorium inside the Loyola Science Center. The Lackawanna County Commissioner Debate will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Pearn Auditorium inside Brennan Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Both debates are being organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scranton.edu\/academics\/cas\/ceeps\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">University\u2019s Center for Ethics and Excellence in Public Service<\/a>. The center\u2019s director, Brian Snee, Ph.D., will be the debate moderator. Journalists from several local news organizations, including the Times-Tribune, Fox 56, WBRE, WNEP and WVIA, will serve on the panels.<\/p>\n<p>The debates, which are expected to last about 60 minutes, are open to the public. Seating is first-come, first-served and subject to capacity limits. The debates will be shown on ECTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the next few weeks, voters will have an opportunity to visit The University of Scranton and hear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3561,3562,3564,178,180,3563,179,274],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-ceeps","tag-center-for-ethics-and-excellence-in-public-service","tag-lackawanna-county-commissioner","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-mayor","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}