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HARRISBURG (TNS) — Republican state lawmakers are taking a different avenue outside of the courts to challenge Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Al...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania schools need a statewide requirement that students in classrooms wear masks as protection against the coronavirus, the Democ...

Although it originated on the other side of the state Capitol, state senators took notice of the recent arrest of Democratic former state Rep. Margo D...

Transparency and accountability come in small steps where the state Legislature is concerned. The recent announcement that the state Senate soon will ...

Why is fiscal accountability such a far reach for state lawmakers? They routinely talk about the need to reform the current expense reimbursement syst...

Remember the Texas Democrats? Last month, 51 Democratic state lawmakers boarded private planes in Austin, headed for Washington, D.C. Their purpose wa...

Change can be hard and it can be scary. But, it also can be promising. Because with change comes opportunity. That’s the spirit that must be tapped as...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania took a big step Tuesday toward addressing climate change. The state Environmental Quality Board approved regulations to...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — I hate it when people steal my lines. As I considered how to address one of the latest save-the-bars proposals by our esteemed state...

The state Legislature may not be able to stop the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s plan to toll the nine interstate highway bridges in the ...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — Pennsylvania lawmakers sure were eager to flex their new powers. The House and Senate voted Thursday to end the disaster declaration...

Many state lawmakers who gleefully have given billions of dollars in tax credits to the natural gas industry and its derivatives are far more suspicio...

Texas is the latest state to have a big fight over reforming its election laws. Remember that in Georgia, some Democrats — like President Joe Biden — ...

Groucho Marx isn’t often hailed as a political oracle. But you can’t tell me he wasn’t channeling the future Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky in 1932,...

It’s not shocking that voters appeared to approve amending the state Constitution on Tuesday in an attempt to limit the governor’s powers during futur...

State legislators trying to strip the executive branch of much of its discretion regarding emergency management have complained that the Wolf administ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The American Conservative Union Foundation, host of the Conservative Political Action Conference, has just released the 50th Edition...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Pennsylvania lawmakers once again must decide whether to take the cellphones out of drivers’ hands. A bill to do just that could se...

Pennsylvania, like the rest of the nation, is experiencing a shortage of substitute teachers. State house lawmakers are ushering a bill to hopeful pas...

State lawmakers will be getting a late start on the redistricting process this year because census data won’t be released until Sept. 30. That delay m...