Politics & Policy

Pennsylvania remains the only drilling state that doesn’t tax the drillers. As budget deficits sap public education, all four Democ ...

Pennsylvania is crumbling, both literally and figuratively. Pennsylvania has more structurally deficient bridges, both in raw numb ...

The thesis of Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer Prize winning history, “Embers of War,” is that the die for the tragedy of th ...

Criminal justice isn’t one of the top issues for Democrats running in this years gubernatorial primary in Pennsylvania, but that ...

Those whom the gods would destroy, they first grant their wishes. Two out of three Philadelphians want to see an end to the School ...

When Arizona tried to enforce its own standards on illegal immigration, that state was told immigration is exclusively a federal matter. ...

The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund has filed a complaint against the City Board of  Commissioners over what it says ...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has publicly signed an executive order that the city will no longer keep immigrants in police custody a ...

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob McCord stopped by a Philadelphia nursery school on Wednesday to stress Pennsylvania’s need f ...

Politics are Newtonian. That is, they follow ol’ Isaac’s Third Law of Motion. To wit: For every action there is ...

The Pennsylvania House will take up a ban on cash gifts passed by the state senate yesterday.  NewsWorks Tonight Host Dave Heller sp ...

Narcan is in the news. It’s a drug that counters the effects of an opiod overdose. Since it needs to be injected, it hasn ...

Pennsylvania Democrats hoping to pick up a Congressional seat this year are targeting Republican Mike Fitzpatrick in Bucks County, and on ...