Chaka Fattah

The mayors of Allentown and Bethlehem were among the thousands of individuals and corporations who donated a total of $43 million to President Obama's second inauguration. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski contributed $300 and his wife, Lisa, gave $305....

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Another weekend is upon us and the forecast, at least here in the seat of power, is calling for some decidedly non-spring like weather. So that means only one thing -- creating your own party.......

It appears Charlie Dent's staff is a loyal bunch. The Lehigh Valley congressman holds on to more of his congressional staff than all but one Pennsylvania lawmaker and nearly all of his U.S. House colleagues, according to a study by the Sunlight...

Local area U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent, a Republican, and Allyson Schwartz, a Democrat, joined just 38 House members Wednesday night in support of a bipartisan budget modeled on the plan developed by a presidential commission chaired by former U.S. Sen....

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state House enters its final two days of voting sessions for the year today with essentially two tasks before it: To possibly pass a capital budget bill and to rustle up the votes to......

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 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......

In 6,102 words Obama seeks to portray himself as the compromiser-in-chief on the stalemated deficit reduction talks....

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......

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. In our long-ago days of youth, we'd spend our Sunday mornings poised over our Radio Shack boom-box, finger hovering over the record button as Kasey Kasem or Rick Dees counted down that week's Top 40......

First Lady launches the first in a series of dance parties in the East Room of the White House as the Democrats get in line for the whole kabuki: The November mid-terms....

++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ It was an affair between Laura Foreman, a New York Times reporter, and Henry J. "Buddy" Cianfrani, a Pennsylvania state senator, that prompted A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the Times, to utter his...