Politics & Policy

In her family, Lynn Hardy Yeakel says public service was considered the highest calling. In many ways, the says, it’s her failed ca ...

Rob Andrews, a Democratic congressman from South Jersey, says now is no time for Congress to be taking a week off.   And state ...

Last week I got a chance to talk to this year’s Leadership Philadelphia class. Talk about intimidating, the task of trying to sa ...

You won’t know for sure if your property tax bill is going up next year until Philadelphia’s City Council passes a budget. The dr ...

Congressman John Carney from Delaware was impressed with the enthusiasm of a woman he met at a job training program. Tuesday night, Latek ...

As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address tomorrow night in Washington, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey is calling ...

Amid the turmoil over how to fix the Philadelphia schools, one core point of disagreement rarely gets voiced explicitly. It revolv ...

The current controversy over eliminating Saturday mail delivery prompted me to look up something I wrote two years ago.  Here it is: ...

Our Constitution gives to the U.S. Senate the job of offering advice and consent to the president in appointments of advisers, ambassador ...

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 ...