Politics & Policy

Here’s a quote from last week, spoken by a politician angry at a reporter: “You’re a liberal paper aren’t you? You ...

Philadelphia City Council got an earful from the public Thursday on two pieces of legislation that weren’t even up for a vote. ...

You know what they say about payback. The city of Philadelphia is about to feel the sting of a smackdown that’s been building fo ...

My radio commentary this week is sort of an update on the “Welcome to NewsWorks” post I did when this site debuted, so I̵ ...

The city of Philadelphia is sending out controversial pieces of paper: new property tax bills that include a significant tax hike. ...

OK, so here’s the solution for an economy that’s leaving too many people jobless. Or least here’s the one the American people j ...

The Mayor of Camden laid out some bad news to city employees at City Hall Tuesday: the State Civil Service Commission is reviewing a plan ...

Much attention was paid to outside spending on Congressional races this year. But a Republican group based in a Washington suburb appears ...

Philadelphia’s District Attorney is reaffirming his decision to drop charges against nearly 20 thousand fugitives with pending case ...

Pennsylvania’s Governor-elect Tom Corbett plans to succeed where past lawmakers have failed: he wants to privatize the state’ ...

For a year or so, I’ve been getting together with a group of people to talk about the topic that may be the hardest of all to talk ...

If you go to the polls Tuesday – and I hope you do – you’ll have many issues on your mind: jobs, health care, immigration. I ...

Dozens of explanations zip around the Web for the Republicans’ sweeping victories in last week’s midterms.  A lot of them have m ...