by Chris Kelly | May 11, 2017 |
UPDATE: The second story cited in this blog is actually by staff writer Borys Krawczeniuk, the political dean of The Times-Tribune. I regret the error. In today’s Times-Tribune, education reporter Sarah Hofius Hall files the latest installment in her multi-year...
by Chris Kelly | May 9, 2017 |
If you have little or no confidence in the current Scranton School Board‘s ability to navigate the towering waves of debt threatening to drown the district and the taxpayers who strain to keep it seaworthy, you’ve been paying attention. If you are...
by Chris Kelly | May 3, 2017 |
This morning in my electronic news feed, I counted five hand-wringing eulogies for the allegedly Endangered Species Formerly Known as the Community Newspaper. Each piece offered anecdotal evidence supporting the importance of an aggressive local press. Today’s...
by Chris Kelly | Apr 24, 2017 |
“We don’t need no immigration…” — “Donald Trump’s ‘The Wall'” I was there. Saw it. Heard it. Internalized it. At his packed campaign rallies here in Northeast Pennsylvania, Candidate Donald Trump promised to build...
by Chris Kelly | Apr 18, 2017 |
“Hero” is perhaps the most overused word in the American lexicon. Once deployed sparingly to describe those who performed remarkable acts of valor and sacrifice, it is now attached to the names of multitudes whose main achievement is simply reporting for...
