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Every elected official has good causes they would like to pursue and good ideas to get off the ground that are restrained by two things. First, you ne...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania House voted unanimously Wednesday to expand income eligibility limits for the state’s prescription drug subsidy pro...

HARRISBURG — The state Senate on Wednesday voted to extend waivers of an array of regulatory statutes, rules and regulations to aid in Pennsylvania’s ...

In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Gov. Tom Wolf declared an emergency. It was the right move at the time. That does not, however, me...

Until the state Legislature finally passed a strong law in 2008 to regulate dog-breeding and kennels, Pennsylvania was known as “the puppy mill capita...

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

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

Four years after the Legislature eliminated registration stickers that vehicle owners used to have to affix to their license plates, someone who misse...

More than 15 years ago, many state-level politicians were so eager for gas industry investment in Pennsylvania that they treated drillers as benefacto...

Republican state legislators often champion local government control, as when they insist on sending most proceeds from the natural gas local impact f...

The almost-too-late pandemic relief package passed by Congress will help preclude the Dickens-era prospect of as many as 240,000 Pennsylvania families...

Pennsylvania is “on pause” from now until Jan. 4, Gov. Tom Wolf said Thursday when introducing a new set of temporary mitigation measures to try to st...

Borrowing a page from history, the Legislature has approved a bill that will take a significant step toward rural economic development at little cost ...

Borrowing a page from history, the Legislature has approved a bill that will take a significant step toward rural economic development at little cost ...

Why limit yourself to the far-fetched when the utterly fantastical is an option? President Donald Trump’s challenges of the outcome of the presidentia...

In its effort to challenge vote counts in key states, the Trump campaign has filed lots of lawsuits that have little chance of winning. But there is o...

Pennsylvania long has been considered a presidential “swing” state, to the point that it has been the hinge on the White House door for the past two p...

ALLENTOWN (TNS) — This week’s election has been referred to by many as the “election like no other.” I hope that’s true, and what happened this week n...

American voters have taken to heart the opportunity to vote early and by mail to beat the pandemic and the suddenly sluggish U.S. Postal Service. By F...

Voting is generally seen as a very simple equation. Yes or no. This one or that one. Separate. Count. Whoever has the most votes wins. Easy, right? An...