Government Accountability

The first ad in the Philadelphia mayor’s race comes from a labor-backed super PAC supporting Mayor Jim Kenney’s re-election bid.

Stacey Abrams talks about her book, "Lead from the Outside" and about current politics, voting rights, and her personal story.

The first of nine meetings drew more than 50 people in Williamsport Thursday evening.

PPA director Scott Petri wants the authority to certify Uber and Lyft drivers as part of wide-ranging regulatory package aimed at making ride-hailing services safer.

Philadelphia’s checkbook is now publicly available. The city released a trove of data that details $4.2 billion in city payments for fiscal year 2017.

At a public meeting, multiple members of the committee said they do not agree that breathing air polluted with soot can lead to an early death.

From falsifying time sheets to working an outside job, 30 Philadelphia public employees were disciplined or fired in 2018 for unethical behavior.

Just like John Gotti, nothing sticks to Donald Trump. That’s a shame, because anyone watching saw circumstances indicating that the Trump campaign had extensive ties to Russia

Special counsel Robert Mueller's work is done, but the Russia imbroglio likely has a few more encores before the curtain closes.

A government watchdog has found the Federal Emergency Management Agency wrongly released to a contractor the personal information of 2.3 million disaster survivors.

Lawmakers' proposals largely fell into two categories: the kind that would change the culture of Congress, and the kind that would change how laws are made.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson effectively added about 3 and a half more years in prison to the sentence Manafort received last week from a different judge in Virginia.

President Trump's budget proposal for 2020 calls for $8.6 billion in new border wall funding, a signal that the White House is not backing away from its demand.

A bill scheduled for a vote this week would give the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission the power to demand the return of records with historical value.

Even if they did, the political dynamics that enabled bipartisan deficit-cutting deals decades ago has disappeared, replaced by bitter partisanship and chronic dysfunction.