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Let's hope that Mellow is, in fact, playing his hand intelligently in an effort to get prices for downtown property reduced. Build it in Scranton.ĬHRIS KELLY, the Times-Tribune columnist, says an apple a day keeps civic decay at bay. It’s the difference between a “hardscrabble former coal town” and a vibrant, growing city on the cutting edge of medicine and scientific research. A healthy Scranton (imagine) is the key to a healthy region and a future in which we are known more for what’s ahead of us than what we’ve so far been unable or unwilling to leave behind. The school is Scranton’s best chance at getting anything close to well any time soon, perhaps ever.

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Scranton may never look much like anyone’s vision of the Promised Land, but if the full potential of the medical school is ever to be realized, it must be built here. We’ve been through a lot of mopes while waiting for Moses. This is an institution, an economic and social engine that could provide a historic shot in the arm to a city that talks incessantly about recovery but never quite seems to get there.įor all of the city’s many ailments, one of the most debilitating has been a lack of imagination among generations of “leaders” perpetually wandering the bleached sands of the past and either refusing to ask for directions or failing to follow what few they were given. It’s not another hotel, warehouse or call center. While any location would benefit the region, no alternative can match the economic and social impact of building the school in Scranton. This is especially true when the development in question is the first new medical school in the United States in about 40 years. For the purposes of the medical school and just about any other meaningful development this side of Philadelphia and Allentown, Scranton is the center of the universe. Mellow and the other members of the consortium behind the school are serious about building the college outside the city, they may as well build it on the moon.ĭespite its often gloomy outlook, Scranton is the sun of the region. Of all the social diseases, greed is the most contagious. If landowners know the city has a lock on the school, they’re bound to boost their asking prices. Mellow’s talk of shopping the school around is aimed more at stifling real estate speculation than actually seeking a new host community.

The medical school will be built in Northeastern Pennsylvania, but it is no longer exclusively “a Scranton project,” state Sen. Initially billed as a sure thing to be built in the city’s downtown, organizers now say the school may be in the market for another home. The latest case in point is the increasingly heated speculation about the eventual location of the Medical College of Northeastern Pennsylvania. As a region, our stiff neck of the woods has never been keen on preventive medicine. “Well, then,” the doctor replies, “stop doing that.”įor the historically (often hysterically) cantankerous city of Scranton, the good doctor’s advice has always been hard to take. “It hurts when I do this,” the codger replies as he pulls a gun and shoots himself in the foot. “What seems to be the trouble?” the doctor asks warily. Kelly Īn old codger limps into his doctor’s office with a ghostly pallor and bloody bandages on both feet. Enough self-inflicted wounds put med school in city Christopher J.