Dominic Pileggi

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. As they begin the final push to approve the 2012-13 state budget this week, state lawmakers know at least two things: the parameters of how much they’ll likely be allowed to spend and where any......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Gov. Tom Corbett accepted tickets to NFL playoff games and the National Hockey League’s Winter Classic and top leaders in the General Assembly earned outside incomes at law firms in 2011, documents show....

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Majority Senate Republicans will unveil a $27,65 billion budget plan this morning that restores $245 million in spending on higher education and cuts $165 million in unspecified spending from the Corbett...

From New Capitol Ideas Intern Michael Macagnone: HARRISBURG _ Chants in English and Spanish echoed through the the Capitol dome Monday during a rally against bills that critics say would hurt ordinary citizens even as they try to clamp down......

HARRISBURG _ The chairman of Monroe County’s board of commissioners urged a legislative panel on Monday to honor the region’s decades-old wish for its own state Senate seat. “My citizens can no longer afford to pay school property...

It appears there will be no local primary races for General Assembly seats. Based on the 2001 district maps, state Reps. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Allegheny Township, and Frank Burns, D-East Taylor Township, will not have primary opposition on April 24....

Although Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision on the General Assembly’s maps has left more questions than answers, one thing is clear: The court found the plan “contrary to law.” Pennsylvania’s highest court ruled Wednesday to...

Another draft of proposed state Senate districts was released by Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi. Although the draft gives Democratic Sen. John Wozniak more of Somerset County, it still leaves Democratic Sen. Rich Kasunic completely out of the...

Those hard-won lessons of parenthood are applicable this morning with the news that Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, intends to wait until spring before moving the controversial Electoral College bill that caused Democrats, as well as...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Generally speaking, on the day before Thanksgiving we don't like to engage in intellectual activity much more rigorous than mixing up our Italian Great Uncle Giovanni Paolo Not Silvio Burlusconi's Capitol Ideas'...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. There's still more than a year to go before voters head to the polls, but state lawmakers are already starting to make decisions about their futures. Yesterday, Rep. Jennifer Mann, D-Lehigh, announced she was calling....