Daylin Leach

Here's a leftover from the Sunday chat shows. It's state Sen. Daylin Leach, D-Montgomery, and House Majority Leader Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny, squaring off on #VoterID. For those of you playing along at home, Leach is the chairman of the Senate......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's not February. And it's not Groundhog Day. Yet we here at Capitol Ideas World HQ can't help feel like we'll be trooping into familiar territory as we make the trek over to Commonwealth Court......

Ron Bukowski and Gary Miller stand on opposite shores in this summer’s debate over Pennsylvania’s new voter identification law. As he strolled through the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley in Lehigh County on a blindingly sunny afternoon last...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Our school days are but a hazy memory. But as the leaves start to turn, on mornings like this we can't help but be brought back to our eighth grade math class in Ye Olde......

Governor Tom Corbett today signed House Bill 135, the second phase of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative that will redirect funds from corrections to communities. Corbett also signed into law several other pieces of legislation, all related to...

Terrance Williams faced quite a dilemma back in 1984, in Philadelphia. First, he beat Amos Norwood to death with a tire iron and then swiped his cash, credit cards and car to go on a gambling spree to Atlantic City at the age of 18. This was only 41/2...

Two Pennsylvania lawmakers appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the state's controversial voter ID law. The law requires voters to show a specific state-issued photo ID card at the polls. It was sponsored by Pennsylvania House Majority Leader Mike...

State Sen. Daylin Leach ... ... went on MSNBC's "Politics Nation" program last night to talk about the Voter ID kerfuffle that's blown up around House Majority Leader Mike Turzai's remarks to the Republican State Committee last weekend. If you're......

Nearly 18 months into his first term, Gov. Tom Corbett has hit the political equivalent of a glass ceiling: He’s yet to crack the all-important 50 percent mark in his approval ratings among state voters. And with legislative Republicans set......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're reading to Little Miss Capitol Ideas' first-grade this morning, so let's get right to it. Gov. Tom Corbett and his staff are facing questions today over an administration plan to hand $1.65 billion in......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. In case you missed it yesterday, the House Appropriations Committee got the next set of budget dominoes in line as it voted, along party lines, to send the $27.65 billion budget plan approved by the......

The most inside of Pennsylvania Republicans threw their support to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign this afternoon, raising serious questions on how Romney will sell himself as an outsider to Pennsylvania primary voters....