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It's become semi-famous as President-elect Joe Biden's home town and the setting for the TV show The Office, but what's Scranton, Pennsylvania really like? Tom talks with current Scranton mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti about the city of 77,000 people. They chat about the fact that Scranton is Tom's home town, its place in Presidential politics, its surprising rise in pop culture, and the difference between Scranton's image as a faded coal mining town and its more upbeat reality.
It's become semi-famous as President-elect Joe Biden's home town and the setting for the TV show The Office, but what's Scranton, Pennsylvania really like? Tom talks with current Scranton mayor Paige Gebhardt Cognetti about the city of 77,000 people. They chat about the fact that Scranton is Tom's home town, its place in Presidential politics, its surprising rise in pop culture, and the difference between Scranton's image as a faded coal mining town and its more upbeat reality.