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The Pennsylvania governor is just now emerging from a contentious four-month budget impasse that tested his ability to “get ...

Coordinated state action could force the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1995 decision in "U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton." ...

Pennsylvania has the largest full-time legislative body in the country. Pennsylvania legislators are poised to have one of their least productive sessions in at least a decade, in terms of the number ...

The National Conference of State Legislatures identifies three main types of state legislatures: full time, hybrid, and part ...

Charles Suppon has big plans for the Tunkhannock Area School District. At any given time, the northeastern Pennsylvania district’s chief operating officer can rattle off statistics about fields in ...

The state Senate Education Committee advanced a bill requiring that public schools adopt policies prohibiting cellphone use ...

It’s been 20 years, as LNP | LancasterOnline’s Jaxon White reported, since the Pennsylvania Legislature voted in the early morning hours of July 7, 2005, to give themselves a 16% to 34% pay hike, with ...

A new bill introduced to the Pennsylvania legislature could soon make it easier for bars and restaurants to serve cocktails. State Rep. Dan Goughnour (D-Allegheny) has introduced legislation that ...

With each passing day of the Pennsylvania budget impasse, those who depend on funds from the state are getting more desperate. Up until this point, millions of dollars have already gone unpaid to the ...

Charles Suppon has big plans for the Tunkhannock Area School District. At any given time, the northeastern Pennsylvania district’s chief operating officer can rattle off statistics about fields in ...