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Pennsylvania is less than four months away from the 2022 primary. The ballots will include one U.S. Senate seat. Right now, that is the only legislati...

Democrats ran in 2020 on a long list of policies they planned to enact and implement, and now they are going through the agony of trying to make good ...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — The clock is ticking on Pennsylvania lawmakers to complete work on redrawing the state’s congressional districts to meet the Depart...

After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed. Senat...

Proclaiming himself “tired of being quiet,” President Biden Tuesday proposed retiring the filibuster — the 60-vote threshold for getting almost anythi...

The Pennsylvania House Majority Leader may be a bit hyperbolic. Rep. Kerry Benninghoff, R-Centre, said he thinks the new preliminary map for redistric...

HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania’s Senate on Wednesday approved legislation to overhaul how probation is handled, in an effort to clamp down on people b...

Bob Dole first emerged as a national figure in the early 1970s, defending President Richard Nixon’s Vietnam policies and excoriating such Democratic o...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It seems like anyone who has ever thought of running for office in Pennsylvania will be running in 2022. Want to be governor? This ...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Melissa Hart, a former Republican congresswoman from the Pittsburgh suburbs, is joining the crowded GOP field running for governor. H...

New York’s Independent Advisory Redistricting Commission is having its 24th and final public hearing Sunday , where ordinary New Yorkers can weigh in ...

More than a year after President Joe Biden carried Pennsylvania by more than 80,000 votes in the most highly scrutinized and repeatedly verified elect...

An out-of-state consulting firm will be receiving $270,000 over the next six months as part of a review of the 2020 election. Envoy Sage of Dubuque, I...

Democrats should leave in place a cap on deductions that wealthy taxpayers can claim based on their state taxes — the one good part of the Republicans...

HARRISBURG — Republicans in the Pennsylvania Senate said Friday they will pay up to $270,000 over the next six months to have an Iowa consulting firm ...

President Joe Biden is sending a team of show horses to the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, next month to show the world that the U.S. is a le...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — John Fetterman’s campaign war chest is dwarfing the coffers of his opponents early in the race for U.S. Senate. Fetterman, Pennsylv...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — It’s been four years since political activist Gene Stilp has brought his hefty, inflatable pink pig to the Pennsylvania Capitol. Bu...

HARRISBURG — This week the state Senate approved a measure that seeks to modernize and improve portions of Pennsylvania’s Second Class Township Code. ...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled Legislature voted Wednesday to again extend hundreds of regulatory waivers that Gov. Tom Wolf’s admi...