Bob Mensch

Local Leaders From ... ... Northampton and Carbon County went before the Legislative Reapportionment Commission this afternoon, where they begged mapmakers not to carve off huge chunks of their territory in the once-a-decade redrawing of 203 House and...

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,...

Where's Bart Simpson And His Blackboard When You Need It? A coalition of environmental groups to more than a dozen lawmakers -- primarily Republicans -- for their votes on legislation that authorized a new impact fee on Marcellus shale natural......

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum may not live in Pennsylvania any more, but he still has friends here. Calling him the right man for the right time, 15 members of the 30-member Republican caucus in the state Senate have come out......

Lehigh Valley Lawmakers ... ... including Senate Majority Whip Pat Browne of Allentown have thrown their support to a plan to privatize Pennsylvania's state liquor stores, our Mothership colleague Scott Kraus reports this morning. Browne joined House...

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......

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're on swimming lesson and violin duty with Little Miss Capitol Ideas this morning, so we're going to dispense with the usual tired-out tropes and just dive right into the regular mix of gossip and......

The state Senate could vote as soon as today on legislation that would increase state oversight of abortion clinics, but that critics say is really just a proxy battle over a woman’s right to the procedure. The majority-Republican chamber could........

For political junkies, the once-a-decade redrawing of Pennsylvania's legislative district lines is a board- game geek's paradise: It's "Risk," "Stratego" and "Battleship" all rolled into one, with the balance of power for the next 10 years as the prize....

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We begin this morning with the news that the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission plans to hire an outside consultant to review the management structure at the notorious patronage dumping ground,The Tribune-Review...

State Sen. Bob Mensch of Montgomery County, saying he felt threatened by another motorist, faces a disorderly conduct charge after allegedly displaying a handgun while driving on Interstate 78 in Berks County. State police at Hamburg pulled Mensch over...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. After some unbelievable technical snafus this morning involving routers, wires and, strangely, a Blu-Ray copy of the 1980s Sylvester Stallone vehicle "Cobra," (that Brigitte Nielsen really does jinx everything she...