Government

Philadelphia City Council is starting up its weekly meetings with tough budget negotiations ahead and COVID-19 keeping them virtual.

At a Wednesday news conference marking his first year in office, He said he would likely have to settle for “big chunks” of his signature economic package to break an impasse.

While there’s some consensus among Democrats and Republicans on what can be done to lower taxes in N.J., leaders have yet to offer a clear plan to do so.

Fixing Philly’s ailing public school buildings has been a big item on City Council’s collective to-do list for years. A new bill targets the problem.

President Joe Biden’s own party is poised to let the bill fail as two holdout senators are unwilling to change the Senate rules to overcome a Republican filibuster.

After narrowly winning reelection on a progressive platform, Murphy is focusing his second term on dealing with a perennial problem in New Jersey: high property taxes.

President Joe Biden took office at a particularly polarized time in American history, so it's not surprising that citizens are divided on his performance at the one-year mark.

Biden's remarks Monday were among many by politicians acknowledging unmet needs for racial equality on Martin Luther King Day.

Wolf’s veto tally grew extensively during the pandemic and will likely expand during his final 13 months in office, as Republicans continue to largely bypass his agenda.

President Joe Biden came to office seeing two sicknesses in his country. Neither has abated a year later.

Friday had been the deadline. The city cited ongoing negotiations with employee unions for the extension to Jan. 24.

The inspection of voting machines in a heavily Republican county in Pennsylvania appears ready to go forward in a GOP effort inspired by former President Donald Trump.

It's unlikely that Biden's voting rights legislation can pass. We'll look at what's happening in Congress today, and take it back to the crucial 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Stewart Rhodes has been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.