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Bethlehem Democrats had every reason to go to the polls Tuesday. An aggressive battle for the first open mayoral seat in a decade. A competitive Northampton County executive race starring the city's sitting mayor. Yet turnout was, well, average. About...

* Democratic Party primary is on Tuesday * City is poster child for mismanaged public finances By Hilary Russ May 19 (Reuters) - In Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's cash-hungry capital city, local political battles are waged much as they are across the...

HARRISBURG — Choice and convenience. They are two words Gov. Tom Corbett has used often since February. He says them when talking about his budget proposal to expand beer sales and sell the state-owned liquor store system to fund a four-year grant...

HARRISBURG — A new poll shows Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's poll numbers have sunk again, to depths a sitting governor has not seen in decades. That could make Corbett's climb out of the trenches that much more difficult as he prepares for a re-...

It's been 46 days since the Pennsylvania House voted to privatize the state liquor system and expand beer sales to more stores. Starting Tuesday, the state Senate tackles privatization. The Senate Committee on Law & Justice will hold the first of at...

In a law firm conference room 43 stories above Midtown Manhattan where giant windows offered vertiginous views of rain-soaked urban canyons, John Hanger’s ambitions were equally soaring. A former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If you were surfing the Interwebs or listening to the radio or watching the barking heads on cable news yesterday, then you know there's only one story that consumed Pennsylvania's political and chattering classes...

The redrawn topography of Pennsylvania's 203 House districts and 50 state Senate seats puts politics ahead of the interests of the voters, an attorney said as the state's highest court took up a challenges to the once-a-decade remapping of legislative.......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Another weekend is upon us. Hope you have something fun planned. With the mercury tipping south of 65 degrees these last few days, our thoughts have turned to the campaign trail and the inevitable diet......

Reuters reports: HARRISBURG _ Former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, a major political figure in Pennsylvania and Washington for more than four decades, died on Sunday of complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma at age 82, his son said. Specter had...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Even as the state spar-over-case-1.1385891">House spars over a non-binding resolution calling for a federal probe of then-Attorney General Tom Corbett's handling of the Sandusky case, there's some additional...

By the time the dust finally settled on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama carried Pennsylvania by 5.2 percentage points over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. So this begs the question: Just how correct were Pennsylvania’s army of pollsters in...