Politics & Policy

My whole life, I’ve lived in, and loved, cities scorned by the national media. Comedian John Oliver, on his new HBO show, wa ...

The relationship between Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature went from a slow simmer to a boil th ...

A couple of weekends ago, I spent a pleasant two days in Cape May. Sure, as my wife noted frequently, the motel room I booked for ...

Standing in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Declaration of Independence was adopted 238 years ago, Vice President J ...

Democrats are planning to visit six cities this summer that are in the running to hold the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Th ...

A veteran who collapsed in an Albuquerque Veteran Affairs hospital cafeteria, 500 yards from the emergency room, died after waiting 30 mi ...

A federal appeals court has rejected a county official’s bid to appeal a ruling that overturned Pennsylvania’s gay marriage b ...

State environmental officials say they will go to court in an effort to block a plan for seismic testing of the ocean floor off the New J ...

The speaker of New Jersey’s Assembly is introducing a bill that would make college students in the U.S. illegally eligible for stat ...

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Since taking office, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett has prided himself on getting state budgets done on time, unlike his “slovenly ...

A roughly $29.1 billion Pennsylvania state budget is poised for final votes in the House and Senate Monday. The plan includes no n ...

Three of Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter’s senior staff members will be stepping down.  The mayor announced the admin ...