Opinion & Essay

As the old saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. And no sackmates seem stranger – at first glance – than Pat Robert ...

  Enjoy your holiday……I’ll be posting again next week. Meanwhile, enjoy my friend and Harrisburg blogger John Micek ...

As Arlen Specter and Ed Rendell depart the political stage, State Treasurer Rob McCord will emerge as a leading Pennsylvania Democrat, ju ...

You probably heard about Arlen Specter’s farewell speech in the Senate, but you’ve been to busy to watch it. It’s worth ...

Mayor Nutter told Mike Dunn of KYW Newsradio this week that he is, indeed, running for re-election next year. It wasn’t surprising, ...

Politico quotes sources as saying the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will get the votes to approve to the controversia ...

Tom Corbett suffered a little embarrassment yesterday when the incoming Pennsylvania Governor had to tell reporters his announced chief o ...

In his press briefing late yesterday, President Obama said: “A lot of folks in this town predicted that after the midterm elections ...

If you worried about anonymous political contributions influencing the November elections, take heart. They aren’t just about torpe ...

If you’re old enough to remember when several Philadelphia judges were caught accepting Christmas envelopes of cash from the roofer ...

‘Tis the season to be merry, and with good reason: President Obama has signed the law that finally banishes institutional bigotry i ...

Veteran South Philadelphia City Councilman Frank DiCicco now has three at least announced challengers in the spring Democratic primary, a ...

One thing you can say – Ed Rendell knows how to throw a party. To thank supporters, contributors and friends as he finishes two terms a ...

Of interest from the Harrisburg press corps: Capitolwire.com’s Pete DeCoursey wrote a stinging piece yesterday accusing Gov. ...

In the multiracial America of the 21st century, is it conceivable that voters would elect, as their next president, a southern white guy ...