Politics & Policy

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the momentous Voting Rights Act into law on August 6, 1965. The Act was considered a centerpiec ...

Trenton Mayor Tony Mack has requested $46 million from the state of New Jersey to rehire laid-off police officers and add new ones. ...

Philadelphia U.S. Rep. Bob Brady has convened business and hospitality leaders for a meeting Wednesday to consider mounting a bid to host ...

The Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline has permanently removed a Philadelphia judge from office. Common Pleas Court Judge T ...

Vince Fumo.  Remember that name?  The one time kingmaker convicted of multiple counts of corruption will be released from priso ...

Philadelphia City Council President Darrell Clarke’s office said Monday that legislators will make permanent a 1 percent sales tax ...

More than 600 geeks gathered in Philly last week to make love to WAR. Not war as in the thing with bullets WAR as in W-A-R, the ad ...

President Obama has publicly announced a policy of refusing to enforce U.S. immigration law against illegal aliens unless they are also c ...

The fugitive National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden has been granted asylum in Russia after five weeks stranded in the internatio ...

Live pigeon shoots continue in Pennsylvania, much to the frustration of some animal activists. A shoot is scheduled to run through this w ...

Lawyers in the trial over the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s voter identification law are in some agreement the requirement sh ...

Sen. Max Baucus of Montana and Rep. Dave Camp of Michigan stopped in Philadelphia today to stump for federal tax reform. Camp and ...

Governor Corbett has ordered all Pennsylvania flags lowered to half-staff in honor of former Governor Bill Scranton who died last night a ...

Last week I spent on vacation in sunny South Carolina. (We went far south to get cool; temperatures were 10 degrees cooler in the Charles ...

Wednesday night, in what was probably a first, the register of wills & clerk of orphans court of Montgomery County appeared on the ...