Lackawanna County
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Nov 1, 2026
Jordan KowiakGUEST
Counties.
Pat DevaneyHOST
Luzerne, Lackawanna.
Pat DevaneyHOST
We'll start
Jordan KowiakGUEST
with a lot of Luzerne, a lot of Lackawanna.
Jordan KowiakGUEST
Anywhere from Dalton, PA, all the way through Scranton, back up to Nanticoke, up to the Poconos.
Jordan KowiakGUEST
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Michael DuncanHOST
If we could first look at Pennsylvania's 8th So this is – Trump won it by eight points.
Michael DuncanHOST
This is that Lackawanna, that northeastern Pennsylvania district where Donald Trump made inroads into a white working class, a lot of union households in this district.
Michael DuncanHOST
That's a huge part of his coalition.
Michael DuncanHOST
If the Republican Party is going to be successful in a lot of these – districts, they need to have an ability to get those voters as well.
Bob CordaroHOST
Get to higher ground quickly.
Bob CordaroHOST
Another, Bob LTS, I'm very sorry to say this, having been born and raised in Lackawanna County, but if that district elects Cognetti over Robb, They deserve everything they have coming their way.
Bob CordaroHOST
And I say this as a property owner in Lackawanna County, even though I don't live in the area anymore.
Bob CordaroHOST
If the voters don't understand this, they never will, says the electrician.
Bob CordaroHOST
You're right.
JoeAUDIENCE
Well, when George and I had a very strange relationship as a kid, I was involved with bands in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and I wrote for newspapers, and then I got into radio, as many of us did in our hometown radio stations, WPTS in Pittston, which was a day-timer, and we were the midway broadcasting company at midway between the two major cities.
JoeAUDIENCE
Scranton, the county seat of Lackawanna County, and Wilkes-Barre, the county seat of Luzerne County.
JoeAUDIENCE
And George and I went back and forth on a million things.
JoeAUDIENCE
He was great to me.
JoeAUDIENCE
Well, when George and I had a very strange relationship as a kid, I was involved with bands in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and I wrote for newspapers, and then I got into radio, as many of us did in our hometown radio stations, WPTS in Pittston, which was a day-timer, and we were the midway broadcasting company at midway between the two major cities.
JoeAUDIENCE
Scranton, the county seat of Lackawanna County, and Wilkes-Barre, the county seat of Luzerne County.
JoeAUDIENCE
And George and I went back and forth on a million things.
JoeAUDIENCE
He was great to me.
JoeAUDIENCE
Well, when George and I had a very strange relationship as a kid, I was involved with bands in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, and I wrote for newspapers, and then I got into radio, as many of us did in our hometown radio stations, WPTS in Pittston, which was a day-timer, and we were the midway broadcasting company at midway between the two major cities.
JoeAUDIENCE
Scranton, the county seat of Lackawanna County, and Wilkes-Barre, the county seat of Luzerne County.
JoeAUDIENCE
And George and I went back and forth on a million things.
JoeAUDIENCE
He was great to me.
Michael CorkGUEST
Yeah, so this is something I'd wanna verify because at this point there's thousands, but I'll show a little example from the work that I'm doing that kind of highlights, I think, some of the issues.
Michael CorkGUEST
I'm right now commissioning a study with Lackawanna County which is the same county where that Wildcat Ridge data center was proposed, that county itself has received proposals for dozens, almost a dozen data center projects.
Michael CorkGUEST
And what's challenging is separating out which projects are legitimate and will be going through, which are not.
Michael CorkGUEST
So the county and I are working together on understanding the cumulative health impacts, right? So I looked at individual facilities.
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Michael CorkGUEST
And there's a lot of different people that are working on these issues.
Michael CorkGUEST
The people that I've worked with so far, a lot of environmental law organizations like the Southern Environmental Law Center, the Piedmont Environmental Council, these have been kind of on the forefront of thinking about how the decisions around fossil fuel infrastructure might impact their communities.
Michael CorkGUEST
You know, I mentioned Lackawanna County.
Michael CorkGUEST
I'm really excited to be working with a county who is really looking for unbiased scientific information and data that we can present for them to make informed decisions.
Bill KnightHOST
Husband is the president or CEO of some banking group.
Bill KnightHOST
And so she ran for, in Lackawanna County, to be the mayor of a town that has been in debt for like 40 years.
Bill KnightHOST
She came in, and debt went away.
Bill KnightHOST
Well, how did she do that? Secured a loan.
RobinAUDIENCE
And then she's going to be here Monday morning at 8 o'clock.
RobinAUDIENCE
She's going to kick off a statewide visit, starting with Lackawanna County, and it's the day before election.
RobinAUDIENCE
We want everyone to come down.
RobinAUDIENCE
You're welcome to come.
RobinAUDIENCE
in the morning.
RobinAUDIENCE
Eight o'clock in the morning.
RobinAUDIENCE
She's starting out with Lackawanna County at Republican headquarters.
RobinAUDIENCE
And it's 101 Pittston Avenue in Scranton.
Avi Wolfman-ArentHOST
It's Scott Perry, the incumbent, the Republican, a very Trump aligned Republican running for the second time against Janelle Stelzen, who should be mentioned as kind of a former Republican and now a Democrat and a TV personality in that region.
Avi Wolfman-ArentHOST
I am curious, we've talked about these four, so there's PA1, that's this district here, Bucks County, PA10, Dauphin County, PA8, that's Northeastern Pennsylvania, Wayne County, Pike County, Lackawanna, and then PA7, Charlie, you know that area very well, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton, parts of Monroe County.
Avi Wolfman-ArentHOST
If it is a blue wave election, but one of these four incumbent Republicans survive, who do you think it would be? And Connor, I'm gonna put you on the spot first.
Conor LambGUEST
OK, yeah, I think I would probably say Brian right here.
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