Politics

Several Republican state senators plan to introduce legislation that would require Pennsylvania to use zero-based budgeting—a standard specifically designed to save money.

Christina School District is considering a plan to close three Wilmington elementary schools and expand two others in the city, according to a confidential memo.

1812 Productions' 12th annual "This Is The Week That Is" comedy show opens this week in Philadelphia. The "year-in-revue" production will not parody the president.

This is the second year Pennsylvania lawmakers have tried to take surplus money from the Joint Underwriting Association to help balance perennial budget gaps.

Guests: Cory Doctorow, Andy Kroll, Meg James There are a lot of changes in the media these days. We’ll begin to ...

The tax plan passed by the House could increase taxes on graduate students by thousands of dollars, when many make less than $20,000 a year.

The U.S. consumer watchdog agency is now at the center of a tug-of-war over who will lead it.

The 50-year-old justice has been almost exactly what conservatives hoped for and liberals dreaded when he joined the court in April.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner this week granted an injunction sought by the Pennsylvania Professional Liability Joint Underwriting Association.

The news comes not long after a number of federal courts blocked the Trump administration from attempting to keep grant funding from sanctuary cities.

This wasn’t just any governance shake up. It was a bet that state government could and should help fix struggling school districts.

Voters in the northern end feel weirdly separated from their anchor cities, Scranton and Wilkes-Barre.

Like many places in Pennsylvania and across the country, Lycoming County has been stung by the opioid epidemic. A watershed moment came over the summer.

Guests: Sabrina Siddiqui, Dick Polman We have a lot of politics to discuss today. The GOP tax plan just passed th ...

An FBI report on black "extremists" is stirring fears of a return to a time when the bureau spied on civil rights groups.