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Democratic strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase “the economy, stupid” during Bill Clinton’s successful White House bid in 1992. On the...

The Pennsylvania House Majority Leader may be a bit hyperbolic. Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre, said he thinks the new preliminary map for redistric...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Melissa Hart, a former Republican congresswoman from the Pittsburgh suburbs, is joining the crowded GOP field running for governor. H...

Democrats should leave in place a cap on deductions that wealthy taxpayers can claim based on their state taxes — the one good part of the Republicans...

HARRISBURG — Jake Corman, the ranking Republican in Pennsylvania’s state Senate, will run for governor in next year’s election, a political adviser sa...

WASHINGTON — The world is changing faster than our sluggish political leaders — let alone the public — can manage. The COVID-19 virus and climate chan...

Nov. 2 was a boffo night for the Republican Party, and not such a great night for Donald Trump. It’s not as though the interests of the two are diamet...

Say what you like about Congress’ squabbling and eternally disarrayed Democrats; they’ve showed in the last few weeks that they deserve to be recogniz...

Launching his gubernatorial campaign Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general sought to tie the crowded Republican field to the Jan. 6 Ca...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I still recall the first thing I did when I got home on Sept. 11, 2001. I hung my flag on my front porch, where it rippled proudly i...

HARRISBURG — State Sen. Cris Dush will preside over a Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee hearing on elections at 1 p.m. today. The proceedi...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee planned to hold the first public hearing of its investigation into the 2020 gener...

If this is Joe Biden when he’s forceful and passionate, the country is better off with the passive and detached version. The president gave a thundero...

The Democratic-led Senate is heading toward showdowns on two critical pieces of legislation: President Joe Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plan and a...

It’s not 2007 again. But apparently no one has told George W. Bush. To coincide with the release of a book of his paintings of immigrants, “Out of Man...

If Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ever sets up a presidential exploratory committee, it should have to disclose an enormous in-kind contribution from CBS N...

When Joe Biden launched his campaign for the presidency in 2019, his economic proposals were relatively modest updates of the middle-class-oriented ag...

The McKean County Republican Committee is inviting voters to come out to any of five upcoming petition-signing events. The events will focus on petiti...

Pending the outcome in a few key states (as of this writing), Donald Trump may be leaving the White House, but he’s not exiting the room. The fiercest...

Mike Armanini, the Republican candidate vying to represent the 75th Legislative District in the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, has been ...