John C. Rafferty, Jr.

An Eight-Point Bump ... ... among Pennsylvania's female voters has nabbed Gov. Tom Corbett his best approval rating ever, a new Quinnipiac University poll out this morning shows. The Guv's at a 50-32 percent approval rating among all voters, up from a 44-...

Democratic Attoney General Candidate Patrick Murphy has raised $1 million toward his three-way race with Kathleen Granahan Kane of Lackawanna County and Dan McCafferey of Philadelphia....

Good (Rainy) Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Another week's in the books. And, as is the custom here in the seat of government, the skies are heavy with rain and thunder is booming on a fairly regular basis. There's just a......

Pennsylvanians would be asked to pay more at the pump and for their drivers’ licenses and to register their cars -- but they would have to do that less often -- under transportation funding legislation a senior Republican in the......

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Today is June 13, 2011. A scant 17 days remain for the state House and Senate to pass a new state budget and for Gov. Tom Corbett to sign one to keep his promise of......

From The Associated Press: HARRISBURG _ Pennsylvania's Republican state senators are being told by the chamber's leaders that a "tentative deal" is in place on a state budget with House Republican leaders and Gov. Tom Corbett. However, no formal...

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....

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The highest-ranking state lawmaker to be caught up in the wide-ranging public corruption probe known as Bonusgate is set to plead guilty to charges that he illegally steered millions of dollars in taxpayer money to....

Just In Time ... ... for this weekend's Democratic State Committee meeting, state Rep. Eugene DePasquale, D-York, has put out a bio video touting his bid for the 2012 nomination for Auditor General. So far, DePasquale is the only declared......

Gov. Tom Corbett on Saturday defended his decision to not spend the state’s more than $700 million fiscal 2010-2011 budget surplus, saying that money might be needed for storm clean-up. “We have some bridges that are going to have to......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Assistant U.S. Attorney Linda Kelly of Pittsburgh moved a step closer CORBETTANDKELLY yesterday to becoming Pennsylvania's new Attorney General yesterday after her nomination sailed through the Senate Judiciary...

Want To Know How Much ... ... has changed during the past nine months when it comes to Pennsylvania addressing its massive PATURNPIKE backlog of badly needed road and bridge repairs? Here’s former Gov. Ed Rendell, speaking last August, at the site...