Lou Barletta

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. How can you tell when things are getting serious over vouchers? When Students First hits the airwaves with a new public service announcement calling on lawmakers to pass school choice and the teacher evaluation...

The annual Pennsylvania Society weekend is about many things. And nearly all of them involve some variation on glad-handing, networking, celebrating and socializing. Also food and alcohol — lots of food and alcohol, paid for out of campaign money,...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We hope you had your jingle bells sufficiently rocked and your halls suitably decked during this weekend's annual Pennsylvania Society bacchanal in New York City. Because it's back to school and down to work on......

First, there was a fight in Congress over light bulb rules. Now, lawmakers are headed for a fight over traffic sign rules....

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're officially on vacation, so a lighter than usual posting schedule commences until the New Year. But that doesn't mean things aren't happening here in the seat of power, so here's a quick bit of......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Our countdown of the year's top political stories continues this morning with a geography lesson. Or, more specifically, a lesson about the inherently political nature of mapmaking in Pennsylvania. To quickly...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The big day is finally upon us: In an election in which no Pennsylvanian will have a say, Granite State voters head to the polls this morning in the first presidential primary of the 2012......

The joint House and Senate State Government Committee meeting scheduled for today, expected to feature the unveiling, finally, of the Republicans' new map for Pennsylvania congressional districts, has been canceled. I wrote about this Saturday. One of the...

You've probably seen that Republicans went through with their preposterous gerrymandering plan for Pennsylvania's congressional districts. Among the victims would be 23 municipalities in Northampton County, including all of Easton and part of Bethlehem,...

Let the record show that the state Senate voted 26-24 in the wee small hours of the morning to approve the Republicans' outrageously gerrymanderd congressional district maps, including a 15th District that loses a big chunk of Northampton County --......

If you want to get a handle on the way our state government operates, you should call up a copy of House Bill 5 or Senate Bill 1249. These are the bills that explain the dividing lines for 18 new congressional districts, drawn up under the...

They Never Stood A Chance. The enemy planes were in sight. We were closing in. There was no chance for escape. The missiles were armed and ready. My right thumb found the red button on the control stick. I took......