Tim Holden

Freshman U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright is endorsing Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan for Northampton County executive. Callahan is in a three-way race for the Democratic primary nomination with former Executive Glenn Reibman and county Councilman Lamont McClure....

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're back to work on Monday. And with our return comes a return to the usual full posting schedule you've come to expect from us. In the meantime, here's a quick buffet of the best......

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who seems to have a million jobs these days, brushed aside - as only a politician could - a question about him serving in the Obama administration cabinet as the next U.S. Transportation Secretary. Asked about taking...

For Allentown, Penn State football and President Barack Obama, 2012 was a year of new beginnings. For Jerry Sandusky, certain Catholic priests in Philadelphia and leaders of the Boy Scouts of America, it was the year the past caught up with them....

At least two area GOP congressmen are supporting a mostly for show House Republican bill to avoid the fiscal cliff by raising rates on millionaires and locking in lower rates for everyone else. U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent and Lou Barletta both said they are...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Everyone knows the classic image of the campaign reporter. Rumpled. Maybe a touch grouchy. Definitely cynical and weary from endless hours on the road and endless meals at diners along the highways and byways of......

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's hard to do this job and not be something of a history buff. Most reporters we know have libraries' worth of arcane knowledge tucked away in their noggins that they can pull up and......

Of late, the hallways of Congress have felt less like a revered 200-year-old political institution and more like the inside of a high school with divided cliques and petty fights. But its not just how lawmakers act that mirrors something out of a CW...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Today is Thursday, May 24, 2012 and we're into the final leg before the long Memorial Day weekend. To help get your day started, here's the five things you need to know about what's happening......

Easton, the Northampton County city, will no longer be part of the Lehigh Valley 15th congressional district, according to a redrawn map released in Harrisburg Tuesday night. Instead the city will become part of the 17th congressional district,...

(Updated with link to Boscola's full remarks. Watch here.) Pennsylvania state Sen. Lisa Boscola ripped U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent during a debate on the new congressional map late Wednesday night, blasting that he sold out the Lehigh Valley to save......

Here at Pennsylvania Ave. we're starting a new, occasional feature: Fun with Polls. For our first installment, results of a Gallup poll released last week. It's good news for Charlie Dent and Allyson Schwartz and Lou Barletta and Tim Holden......