John R. Gordner

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, here we are, starting one of the last working days before the Christmas interval. Hopefully you have all your shopping finished and you've laid in a sufficient supply of Curiously Strong Adult Beverages so......

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......

So much any hope for a palace coup. Senate Republicans and Democrats held the dullest leadership elections in the history of ever today, re-elecitng the same slate of leaders who saw them through the 2011-12 legislaitive session. Senate President Pro-...

A Planned Vote ... ... on a bill making changes to Pennsylvania's half-century-old prevailing wage law collapsed this afternoon after majority Republicans failed, in a comedy of errors, to muster the votes to pass it. "The Big Labor wing of......

The state House has advanced legislation making the first substantive changes to a state law dictating the cost of most public construction projects since it went on the books half-a-century ago. If, as expected, the chamber gives its final approval......

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......

The Pennsylvania Senate on Wednesday unanimously approved a package of bills to provide state relief for victims of this year's floods, including $150 million in borrowing. The eight-bill package would provide low-interest loans for businesses and...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Welcome to (yet) another rainy day here in the seat of government. Before we get into the usual mix of news, headlines, gossip and half-truths you've come to expect from us, we wanted to get......

Last fall, the South Western School District in York County went shopping for new roofs for four of its buildings. What it ended up with was an object lesson in the importance of checking the fine print. After jumping through......

We've been told that talks are continuing between the House, Senate and Corbett administration in an effort to reach an agreement on legislation preserving federally funded unemployment benefits for 45,000 Pennsylvanians. Those state residents will lose...

With just days to go before 45,000 Pennsylvanians stood to lose emergency federally funded unemployment benefits on Friday, Republican lawmakers who control the state House and Senate said they’d reached an agreement to keep the cash flowing even as...