Steve Samuelson

Allentown gets a new state House seat, drawn to reflect the city's growing Hispanic population, and Monroe County picked up new Senate and House seats under a reshaping of Pennsylvania's legislative topography adopted Monday. Besides center city,...

Amid speculation that the Corbett administration is trying to wean them off public support and push them down the road to privatization, the heads of Penn State, Temple and Lincoln universities and the University of Pittsburgh told a House oversight......

Good Afternoon, All. If there was any doubt, it looks like the vogue for reform has passed and the wave of anger from the 2006 cycle has officially subsided. We've just gone and checked the list of candidates from the......

State Capitol Police shut down a bank of elevators and closed a stairway leading to Gov. Tom Corbett’s office and the offices of dozens of state lawmakers Wednesday in what an administration spokesman described as a “preemptoive effort”...

If you want to get a handle on the way our state government operates, you should call up a copy of House Bill 5 or Senate Bill 1249. These are the bills that explain the dividing lines for 18 new congressional districts, drawn up under the...

The five-member panel that’s spent months redrawing the boundaries of Pennsylvania’s 203 House and 50 state Senate seats is expected to vote on a preliminary map during a session on Monday. Of particular note for residents of the Lehigh...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Quite a weekend, wasn't it? We hope you came through the #Snowtober blizzard safe and sound and with only minimal (or no) damage to life, limb and property. If you spent the weekend without power......

Legislation authorizing 13 weeks of extended unemployment benefits is on its way to the state Senate, averting the loss of payments for some 45,000 jobless Pennsylvanians. The majority-Republican chamber voted 194-0 on this afternoon, without debate, to...

Pennsylvania's poorest school districts, including Allentown, are in line to receive more money under the tentative, $27.15 billion budget framework that state lawmakers are set to begin considering this weekend. The tentative agreement includes $25...

The State House Voted ... ... 109-89 a few minutes ago to approve the annual school-code bill, the mind-numbing assemblage of bureaucratese that dictates how money will be spent and how policy will be set in 2011-2012 at the state......