Chris Kelly
@chriskellyink.bsky.social
Award-winning Ink-stained wretch with nearly 30 years in local journalism, lover of cats, guitars and Godzilla.
It wouldn't be Christmas Eve if Timmy Tinsel didn't hijack my column. Merry Christmas!
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Timmy Tinsel Exclusive: Harry Hollyberry found! Christmas is saved!
BY TIMMY TINSEL / NORTH POLE BUREAU CHIEF CHRISTMAS TOWN — Search parties scoured the Christmas Tree Forest on the outskirts of this tiny town at the top of the world this morning, desperate to res…
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December 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
It wouldn't be Christmas Eve if Timmy Tinsel didn't hijack my column. Merry Christmas!
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No column today, but please read my story on the Anna Young Project, rooted in the work of one of the best souls I've ever known.
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The legacy of ‘St. Anna’ gives on
The Anna Young Project continues the outreach of the late West Virginia native who earned acceptance and authority with inmates over more than 30 years as a volunteer at Lackawanna County Prison
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December 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
No column today, but please read my story on the Anna Young Project, rooted in the work of one of the best souls I've ever known.
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The interesting thing about Bongo quitting the FBI is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
December 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The interesting thing about Bongo quitting the FBI is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
Until now, it’s been difficult to visualize the staggering scope and scale of aesthetic and environmental disfigurement data center development will wreak on host communities and the region as a whole.
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Chris Kelly Opinion: Welcome to ‘Data Center Valley’
In a recent report, Times-Tribune Staff Writer Frank Lesnefsky revealed that an astonishing 54 artificial intelligence data centers have been proposed in the Midvalley.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Until now, it’s been difficult to visualize the staggering scope and scale of aesthetic and environmental disfigurement data center development will wreak on host communities and the region as a whole.
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The trick to covering a Trump rally is not getting bogged down in details. They don’t matter to him or his doting supporters. “The Great Pretender” is the most honest song on his pre-speech playlist.
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Chris Kelly Opinion: ‘The Great Pretender’ goes ‘all in’ at Mount Airy
Explaining the experience of attending a Trump rally to the uninitiated has been a challenge since the MAGA Circus first hit the road about a decade ago.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The trick to covering a Trump rally is not getting bogged down in details. They don’t matter to him or his doting supporters. “The Great Pretender” is the most honest song on his pre-speech playlist.
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Everything is a grift.
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For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison - The American Prospect
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended det...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Everything is a grift.
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The interesting thing about MAGA Marge dragging Trump on "60 Minutes" is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
December 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The interesting thing about MAGA Marge dragging Trump on "60 Minutes" is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
Today let’s take a brief, blessed excursion to a less stressed, more festive yesteryear when the chaos and clamor of daily life could be merrily sidetracked by a few moments spent riding the rails of tradition.
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Chris Kelly Opinion: Don Clark’s legacy back on track at Everhart
Today let’s take a brief, blessed excursion to a less stressed, more festive yesteryear when the chaos and clamor of daily life could be merrily sidetracked by a few moments spent riding the …
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December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Today let’s take a brief, blessed excursion to a less stressed, more festive yesteryear when the chaos and clamor of daily life could be merrily sidetracked by a few moments spent riding the rails of tradition.
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The interesting thing about the J6 pipe bomber believing Trump's Big Lie is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The interesting thing about the J6 pipe bomber believing Trump's Big Lie is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
All the best people.
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ICE's messy hiring spree brings in unfit and illiterate recruits www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
All the best people.
ICE's messy hiring spree brings in unfit and illiterate recruits www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
ICE's messy hiring spree brings in unfit and illiterate recruits www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Today marks the dawn of the Thom Welby era and the official end of the “Odd Couple” de facto majority of interim Lackawanna County Commissioner Brenda Sacco and once-again minority Commissioner Chris Chermak.
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Chris Kelly Opinion: Welcome to the Welby era
Today marks the dawn of the Thom Welby era and the official end of the “Odd Couple” de facto majority of interim Lackawanna County Commissioner Brenda Sacco and Commissioner Chris Chermak.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Today marks the dawn of the Thom Welby era and the official end of the “Odd Couple” de facto majority of interim Lackawanna County Commissioner Brenda Sacco and once-again minority Commissioner Chris Chermak.
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Bad Bongo! Bad!
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‘Ball-Less Bongino’: MAGA Roasts Dan Bongino Over Attack on Pro-Trump Journo Miranda Devine
Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is facing scrutiny from his fellow right-wingers over his attack on New York Post columnist Miranda Devine.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Bad Bongo! Bad!
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All the best people.
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6 Craziest Revelations From Scathing Report on Kash Patel — Including His Refusal to Leave a Plane Until He Was Given a Female Agent’s Jacket
A look at several wild claims against FBI Director Kash Patel, who was deemed an "insecure" stooge who is unfit to lead the bureau in a scathing new report
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December 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All the best people.
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The interesting thing about Trump calling a sitting governor "seriously retarded" is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
November 30, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The interesting thing about Trump calling a sitting governor "seriously retarded" is that Trump is still hiding the Epstein files.
To billionaire CEOs like Sam Altman, everybody with less money and power than him is “nobody.”
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Chris Kelly Opinion: A distress call from Archbald
Former Valley View Estates resident Tina Goble got out before data centers are likely to overrun the tiny mobile home park, but she’s worried about the neighbors left behind
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November 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
To billionaire CEOs like Sam Altman, everybody with less money and power than him is “nobody.”
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