Dominic Pileggi

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With the Senate and the Corbett administration having secured a tentative budget agreement yesterday, it looks like we're going to be in for a long weekend. Details were scarce Thursday night, with both sides staying.....

Legislative Republicans and the Corbett administration have reached a tentative agreement on a $27.15 billion budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1 that restores some money to public and higher education while not imposing any general tax...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. All right. It's done. Stick a fork in it. During a ceremony in the Capitol rotunda around 11:45 p.m. last night, Gov. Tom Corbett signed the 2011-12 state budget into law, declared the victory and......

Pennsylvania has its first on-time state budget in nine years. But as is the case with any major legislation, there are winners and losers. Here's a quick look at whose stock went up and whose went down in the $27.15......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Looks like some changes are in store for legislative employees. For the first time in 30 years, state funding for legislative caucuses will not be evenly distributed, Capitolwire reports this morning. Majority...

That Fancy New ... ... website run by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission went live this afternoon. The interactive site include legislative district maps from the 1991 and 2001 reapportionments — as well as the new preliminary map when it'...

For political junkies, the once-a-decade redrawing of Pennsylvania's legislative district lines is a board- game geek's paradise: It's "Risk," "Stratego" and "Battleship" all rolled into one, with the balance of power for the next 10 years as the prize....

A Senior Economist ... ... in the U.S. Treasury Department has been named to run the state's new Independent Fiscal Office, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi's office said this morning. Matthew Knittel, 43, will be in charge of the agency......

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. With the waters of the Susquehanna receding, it's time to turn our attentions to what comes next -- the clean-up. Gov. Tom Corbett's office says the Obama administration is "very supporrtive" of providing federal...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's pretty inarguable that it's been a tough seven or 10 days for Pennsylvania's Capital City. The Susquehanna River overflowed its banks last week, putting vast swaths of the city underwater. Now, with its...

The state Senate Republican who masterminded a plan to overhaul the way Pennsylvania allocates its Electoral College votes dug in his heels Friday, even as some senior GOP chieftains said they wanted to find a way to stop it. “It’s......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. As Pennsylvania Republicans roll into town tonight for their fall meeting, they'll be confronting an issue as contentious as any one they've dealt with in recent years: Namely, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi'...