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HARRISBURG (TNS) — After years of opposing such a measure, Pennsylvania Democrats are poised on Tuesday to allow a vote in the state House on a bill t...

HARRISBURG — Lawmakers in both chambers of the General Assembly want to launch a Pennsylvania Department of Government Efficiency – or PA DOGE – that ...

OnApril 10, theHouse of Representativespassed the badly misnamed Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, or the SAVE Act, which is now headed for a ...

HARRISBURG — With primaries fast approaching, some legislators want to improve upon election mistakes made last November. Rep. Frank Burns, D-Johnstow...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R-Pa., introduced a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the Constitution to implement term limits in Con...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) Office of Public-Private Partnerships (P3) is now accepting proposals for transpo...

Rep. Jared Solomon, D-Philadelphia, has introduced a concurrent resolution calling Pennsylvania to join states seeking a constitutional amendment for ...

HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania has wanted to upgrade its aging voter registration system for several years, but stumbles have occurred. Legislators were to...

An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...

(Editor’s note: The information in this special series is for educational purposes only and is not intended to address any particular case, nor should...

HARRISBURG — With concerns mounting that Pennsylvanians will face skyrocketing utility costs in the coming months and years, state lawmakers are tryin...

HARRISBURG — Sen. Cris Dush (R-25) has taken the oath office to begin his second term serving the people of the 25th District in the Pennsylvania Sena...

TheIRSwields immense power over the financial lives of Americans, yet recent revelations highlight it would be wise to question an expansion of that a...

The 2024 election is finally over. On Dec. 4, the Pennsylvania Department of State certified the results — almost one month after Election Day. And th...

CIVICS: We’ve featured some of this before, but we saw The Washington Post had run a story asking if readers knew more civics than an eighth grader. S...

Pennsylvania's campaign finance reporting system is easily gamed by unscrupulous politicians, especially in the final days before an election. State l...

(Editor’s note: This commentary by the late George P. Evans of Bradford originally appeared in The Era on Nov. 11, 2020. His family requested that the...

Time is running out for Pennsylvanians to request a mail ballot and submit it to vote in the Nov. 5 general election. With the deadline to request a b...

Pennsylvania’s elections are safe and secure, featuring tried-and-tested systems that are proven to protect the vote and ensure accuracy in the result...

INDIANA, Pa. — Rich Caruso, a native of Kane and an Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumnus, has been appointed to complete an unexpired term on th...