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Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. In what must surely be an object lesson in the importance of carefully picking your friends, we give you the tale of one Foster Friess, the deep-pocketed donor who's been bankrolling Our Rick's surprisingly enduring......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The GOP presidential campaign officially arrives in Pennsylvania this weekend along with the attendant media circus, courtesy of the annual Pennsylvania Leadership Conference. In case you don't know what this is, the...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. If you've spent any time moving through Pennsylvania's political circles, particularly Republican ones in the Lehigh Valley, then there's a pretty good chance you met Charles Snelling more than once. Loud, gregarious...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. And right on time, the reaction to the Marcellus shale impact fee kicked out of the House Finance Committee earlier this week is starting to filter in. Local officials are particularly honked off at language......

Suburban Philadelphia's Rep. Allyson Schwartz's leadership role within the campaign arm for congressional Democrats has been expanded. Schwartz was tapped by the DCCC to lead national recruiting for 2012 and now she'll also be responsible for "candidate...

Nearly every Pennsylvania lawmaker in the U.S. House Tuesday night bucked the White House's call for a clean debt limit increase, including the state's three Blue Dog Democrats Tim Holden, Jason Altmire and Mark Critz. The only Keystone Democrats to......

It's bad news for Anthony Weiner when members of his own party begin asking him to step down. The list is still fairly short, but among them is Philadelphia suburbs' congresswoman and recruitment chairwoman at the Democratic Congressional Campaign...

Good Friday Morning Seekers. The Corbett administration's Marcellus Shale Commission (brought to you by Range Resources) holds its final meeting this morning, where it's scheduled to spend some six hours plowing through the hundreds of recommendations...

Reactions to President Obama's announcement Wednesday night that he'd begin withdrawing the 30,000 "surge" troops this summer from Afghanistan received mixed reaction from Democrats and Republicans alike. Some think the withdraw is too hasty while...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Good news: It looks like the heat wave has finally broken and we're back to the usual scorching temperatures that are customary in the hottest months of summer. Bad news; The political insanity wave has......

'Ere We Go For The Night ... ... here's a final piece give-corbett-a-lift-in-new-quinnipiac-poll.html">of today's Quinnipiac University Gov poll that deserves some mention as well. Fifty-one percent of all Pennsylvania voters think there should be more...

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