Ron Davis

Contrary to popular myths, our taxes are relatively low, haven’t exploded skyward, and are nowhere near the point of creating serious damage to the commercial sphere.

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Jane Jacobs, born in Scranton in 1916, wrote the seminal 1961 book “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” revolutionizing the way municipal design is taught and practiced.

Many people who grew up in Northeast Pennsylvania remember the first time they saw the Nicholson Bridge. The lucky ones are those who never saw a photo of it first — who happened upon it while driving, or being driven, up Route 11.

In 1827, the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. began looking into using a steam engine to haul coal on the gravity railroad from its local mines to Honesdale, and then by canal to New York City.

At less than a square mile, Jermyn is the second-smallest town in Lackawanna County, but at the turn of the 20th century it earned an outsized role

If you were a young boy in Northeast Pennsylvania around the turn of the 20th century, you might very well have had a job at a coal mine; if you were a young girl, it was likely at a silk factory. It was brutally difficult manual labor for menial pay that families depended on to survive. NEPA played a big role in perpetuating this cultural quicksand, but it played just as big a role in eventually eradicating it. The horrific child-labor conditions in coal mines and textile mills directly catalyzed the public outrage and state-level laws that laid the groundwork for future federal protections.

Breaker boys in the Kohinoor Mine, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County. Photographed 1891 by Frances Benjamin Johnston. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division)

The Downtown Seattle Association (DSA) released a “ report ” that was meant to convince us that taxes on high earners are smothering the Seattle economy.

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