Dominic Pileggi

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....

From Our Bloggy Cousin Pennsylvania Ave: With a simple Facebook status message, state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi ended a week of speculation that he'd run for Democrat Bob Casey's U.S. Senate seat. "After a great deal of careful consideration,...

State Senate Democrats This Morning ... ... said they'll push for the approval of more than a dozen proposals aimed at closing loopholes and increasing penalties in Pennsylvania's child abuse and sexual assault laws. "We can do better for our......

The Next Meeting ... ... of the Legislative Reapportionment Commission isn't until next Monday, but Senate Republicans have released their proposed final map. The statement came from Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi's office shortly before 8 p.m. Full...

Allentown gets a new state House seat, drawn to reflect the city's growing Hispanic population, and Monroe County picked up new Senate and House seats under a reshaping of Pennsylvania's legislative topography adopted Monday. Besides center city,...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state Senate wrapped up its calendar for the year last night by approving a map of the 18 Congressional districts Pennsylvania will have in 2012. The narrow 26-24 vote saw four Republicans: Mike Brubaker......

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......

Here's The Text Of A Letter ... ... that Delaware County area lawmakers sent to Gov. Tom Corbett this afternoon asking for the administration to intervene in the growing crisis in the Chester-Upland schools. The signers to the letter include......

There's Some Varsity ... ... tea-leaf reading taking place in the halls of power today. Conversations with Democrats this afternoon. leaned toward the belief that 2001 district boundaries might be allowed to stay in place through the 2012 electoral cycle....

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Rep. Bill DeWeese's public corruption trial in Dauphin County Court yesterday, where prosecutors from the state Attorney General's Office engaged in the time-honored opening argument rite of stripping a defendant's...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. After two or three days of positively frenetic activity here in the Seat of Power, we're taking this morning to take a breath, look around and perhaps exhale a bit on a snowy Thursday morning.......

Right now, the only thing that’s certain about the once-a-decade redrawing of Pennsylvania’s 203 House and 50 state Senate seats is its uncertainty. As of Thursday, the state’s primary election date was still April 24. And, for now,...