Jennifer L Mann

Lehigh County Commissioner Michael P. Schware was fending off three challengers Tuesday in a tightly contested Republican primary to retain his District 5 seat and possibly allow the board's conservative slate to maintain control. But that slate appeared...

Five seats on the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners will be on this year's ballot. Commissioners in four of those seats, including Tom Creighton, Percy Dougherty, David Jones and Mike Schware are running for re-election. Dan McCarthy, one of the board'...

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......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're on the road today and blogging from one of our Commonwealth's finer Green Cup chain coffee establishments. As is so often the case in these instances, we're running late and severely under-caffeinated, so we'...

Today is the final day of the 2011-12 legislative session. State lawmakers are expected to work through the night today to try to wrap up any unfinished business before they depart for an Election Season break With the cancellation of......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. This ones for all the Luddites out there. You know who you are. You proudly proclaim to your friends that you've never Tweeted, Facebooked, Four-Squared, Tumblred or even once downloaded music to your laptop. You......

"Profiles in Courage" earned John F. Kennedy the Pulitzer Prize. The book profiled eight senators who defied their political parties or popular opinion to do what they felt was right and subsequently suffered for it. Today, perhaps even more than when it...

Legislation that would allow Pennsylvania to pay off nearly $4 billion in borrowed federal unemployment benefits , while also placing new limits on eligibility and benefits – is on its way to Gov. Tom Corbett’s desk. The state House voted........

Legislation carving Easton out of the Lehigh Valley's congressional district now awaits Gov. Tom Corbett's signature to become law. The state House passed a new congressional map Tuesday; the Senate passed it last week. The new map shifts the city......

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The Allegheny County grand jury that's been investigating state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin will hear testimony this morning as a deadline for recommending charges draws nearer, the Tribune-Review...

It's time to follow up on some past columns and other items. First, let's get "What Is It?" out of the way. I run these mystery items every other Wednesday on my blog at themorningcall.com. When they also appear in the Sunday paper's Best of the Blogs...