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A former local state representative once joked that he wisely kept his sparkling new state-leased vehicle out of sight in his home garage when he was ...

Musicians regularly oil their instruments' valves to reduce friction and ease play — much as private interests regularly oil some state politicians fo...

As state lawmakers trickle back to Harrisburg, state residents might be interested to know how the legislators spent their unduly long summer vacation...

Redistricting is not just something that happens every 10 years. It is more than just the way that we shuffle the decks of legislators and change the ...

“Out in Harrisburg, it’s fairly common,” said state Rep. Tim O’Neal of swanky, invitation-only, off-the-books gatherings of lobbyists and legislators....

There’s a reason people repeat the adage that “half a loaf is better than none,” coined in 1546 in John Heywood’s collection of English proverbs. It i...

There usually is nothing politicians love better than their moments of benevolent generosity. Legislators who opposed a program they deemed a pork pro...

A week into the state’s new fiscal year and Pennsylvania still didn’t have a state budget. Once again, lawmakers blew off the deadline, even though it...

When an appellate court on Thursday shot down the Wolf administration’s plan to impose tolls on nine major highway bridges, it added urgency to the ne...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — It doesn’t seem like it now, with the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade reversal roiling the nation. But we may someday look back ...

State legislators addicted to easy money long ago rolled over for casino operators who claimed that they couldn’t make money, and provide the state go...

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...

Think about it this way: If Justice Samuel Alito gets his way and the Trumpist Supreme Court majority voids Roe v. Wade, many states will be forced to...

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...

The region’s Republican legislators are praising a Commonwealth Court ruling that stalls Gov. Tom Wolf’s enrollment of Pennsylvania in the Regional Gr...

As Gov. Tom Wolf proposed a new budget Tuesday that would mitigate the government’s inequitable education funding, legislative Republicans continued t...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — A bill proposing an amendment to the Pennsylvania constitution that would limit abortions is making its way through Harrisburg, p...

READING (TNS) — The surging inflation that has run rampant across the nation hasn’t been bad for everyone. Pennsylvania state legislators saw a $5,000...