Eugene DePasquale

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If you've ever wondered who watches the Watchmen, then you'll love this story out of Allegheny County this morning. There you'll find suspended state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin, who claims in a new......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's all happened to all of us: You're stopped at an intersection and some well-scrubbed, cherub-faced Penn State undergraduate pops up at your driver side window and waves an empty soup can at you. "Donate......

For years, there have been demands that Pennsylvania join the civilized world by privatizing its retail liquor operation. State stores are a vestige of the frenzy at the repeal of Prohibition in 1933, when it was felt that letting people choose for...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Our apologies for our absence yesterday. We burned a rare vacation day to tackle the increasingly Serengeti-like conditions of the front lawn at Casa de Capitol Ideas. While plowing through the high grass of our........

Vice President Joe Biden took sharp aim at Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and running-mate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan in York on Sunday, warning that a GOP win in November would result in a "catastrophe for the middle class" as......

Throngs of Obama administration supporters gathered in York early this morning for a speech by Vice President Joe Biden. Biden was set to address supporters in the gymnasium at West York High School at 11:30 a.m. Biden was preceded by......

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......

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......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's a rainy morning here at Capitol Ideas World HQ and we're still feeling a little slow and undercaffeinated. So hopefully you'll excuse us if today's post bears the title of the customary Thursday summary......

(Note: This story ran on Page A-1 of this morning's edition of The Morning Call.) HARRISBURG — It’s just after 8 a.m. on a Wednesday, weeks before an election, and state Rep. Jerry Knowles is engaging in a time-honored rite......

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., who died Sunday at age 82 from complications from non-Hodgkins lymphoma is being remembered this morning as a towering figure in Pennsylvania politics. Our Washington colleague...

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...