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HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers continued to criticize a PennDOT plan to toll nine bridges around the state that they say would hurt sma...

It should be very easy for state lawmakers to pass a law barring monied interests from giving the legislators what they euphemistically describe as "g...

From irresponsibly low taxation, to direct tax subsidies, to favorable zoning and much more, many state lawmakers relentlessly have pandered to the na...

The leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that portends the demise of Roe v. Wade, which established a constitutional right to abortion in 1973, also wou...

As itinerant millionaires pour money into denigrating one another to impress a small fraction of the state’s population, while ruining television for ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — State lawmakers packed up their briefcases and went home to their districts last week, turning their focus to re-election campaigns...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — When Pennsylvania House Republicans proposed sweeping changes last year to the state’s 2019 election law, Rep. Seth Grove warned Go...

Nearly 20 years ago, when state Sen.Ed Helfrickwas asked why he thought it was appropriate to spend more than $600 of public money every month for his...

It’s hard to say exactly when the Republican state legislative majorities abandoned the legislative process, since they didn’t do much with it even wh...

Frank Burns gets it! Not the bumbling doctor from MASH, but the Democratic state representative from Cambria County. Just like anyone else who has sou...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has asked the state’s highest court to let the centerpiece of his plan to fight climate change take e...

After years of evading their responsibility to account for how they spend the public’s money, members of the state House have an opportunity to establ...

Pennsylvania legislators long have refused to force gas drillers to stop methane leaks, even though doing so would help fight dangerous climate change...

State Rep. Frank Ryan nicely summarized the fundamental problem Thursday as he introduced his latest plan to eliminate widely hated school property ta...

HARRISBURG — Ranks of lawyers packed the courtroom of Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court on Friday, with most of them aiming to persuade justices to p...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf’s eighth and final budget proposal unveiled Tuesday would push state spending past $43 billion for the first time, with the...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Lawmakers are set to take the first serious step toward legalizing recreational marijuana in Pennsylvania. A hearing scheduled Mond...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — With Philadelphia on pace to break last year’s record murder rate, two state lawmakers are pushing legislation to permanently grant...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The heads of Pennsylvania’s legislative LGBTQ+ Caucuses are calling on the General Assembly to enact a non-discriminatory statute o...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — A state lawmaker has introduced legislation that would ask voters to decide whether Pennsylvania government should get out of the l...