Politics & Policy

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-New Jersey) has paid back $58,000 for two flights to the Dominican Republic on a Florida doctor’s private jet. ...

Since whispering began about Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s plans to privatize Pennsylvania’s state liquor stores, expectati ...

A majority of Pennsylvanians say they support stricter gun control regulations. A Quinnipiac University found that 95 percent of l ...

In Las Vegas this afternoon, President Obama also spoke to an audience around the country, outlining his plans to change America’s ...

U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who called earmarks the “gateway drug” to more government spending, intends to ask Congress to enact a ...

Public comment was scarce this week when the Philadelphia Board of Ethics held a hearing on proposed regulations to govern independent ex ...

Philadelphia’s public employees union is asking gun-related companies in which it has invested pension funds to do more to kee ...

It’s less than three years now before the first presidential primary elections of 2016. Anyone who wants to be a serious candidate ...

Pennsylvania has 15,000 people with intellectual disabilities on a waiting list for individualized services, including transportation and ...

It was a new beginning, but without the buzzing crowds, cheers and happy tears of the previous time, four years ago. At this time ...

It always frustrates me when people dismiss all politicians as phonies or, worse, crooks. Some are not. Some are decent people mot ...

NewsWorks photographer Kimberly Paynter boarded a bus from Delaware at 4 a.m. Monday and hit the road for Washington, D.C., to witness Pr ...

This week, Gov. Tom Corbett is expected to unveil a comprehensive transportation budget for Pennsylvania. It’s eagerly await ...

President Obama last week announced a raft of proposals to curb gun violence. I really don’t know which of the things he pro ...