MANCHESTER, N.H. — Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum addressed Saturday night one of the most nagging concerns about his presidential candidacy: his 2006 Senate re-election loss. (more)
Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is getting some free advertising in Pennsylvania thanks to a new endorsement, but it might not be the kind he’s looking for. (more)
President Barack Obama has begun trying to reach military voters from the campaign trail, praising soldiers’ accomplishments and scaling back his portrayal of soldiers as wounded warriors dependent on government services. (more)
Former Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak doubled-down and clarified the protestation he made earlier in the week that Penn State did not provide Joe Paterno his “due process” when they dismissed him as head coach of the football team. (more)
The taxman got an early Christmas present from the Obama administration this week with the approval of a new fee on all fresh Christmas trees. (more)
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum touted his status as a Washington insider Monday, taking a swipe at Herman Cain’s outsider status which he said left open the possibility for unpleasant surprises like the sexual harassment allegations that came to light last week. (more)
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum will deliver a series of three “major policy speeches” beginning Friday in Iowa, his campaign said Thursday, focusing on a wide variety of issues that other candidates have rarely addressed. (more)
During Tuesday night’s debate in Las Vegas, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum argued that his success winning elections against Democratic incumbents in Pennsylvania — a swing state — would give him an edge against President Barack Obama in 2012. But election consultants who spoke with The Daily Caller on Wednesday said Santorum’s electoral-math argument may not carry water in 2012. (more)
New polling shows reliably blue Pennsylvania, a state that hasn’t voted for a Republican for president since 1988, could be up for grabs in 2012. And in a wisdom-bending development, organized labor could help the state trend red. (more)
Republicans are scrambling to find someone with enough money and political clout to challenge Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. (more)
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ties President Obama in a hypothetical 2012 matchup in his home state according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Tuesday. (more)
Unlikely allies have banded together on both sides of the battle over school choice in Pennsylvania. At issue is the hotly contested voucher bill SB1. (more)
EASTON, Pa. — Ken Kewley woke up Tuesday without health insurance for the first time in nearly nine years. (more)
Prosecutors are investigating whether an inmate ran a “$10,000-a-month” contraband business inside Northampton County Prison that sold narcotics and tobacco to fellow prisoners. (more)
Tea Partier and U.S. Senate candidate Jamie Radtke ripped into former U.S. Sen. and Virginia Gov. George Allen, calling him a part of the Washington establishment. The dig comes on the heels of Allen announcing on Monday that he’s running for Senate in 2012. (more)
Thanks to the ACLU of Pennsylvania, motorists in that state will be free to swear at and give the finger to police officers and other motorists, thus lowering public decency another notch. Meanwhile, the officers themselves will be forced to undergo “training” on the “right” to flip people off. (more)
Texas Democrat Rep. Rubén Hinojosa said Monday that he is open to joining Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Robert Brady in support of a bill to curb speech that could be perceived as “threatening” to public officials. (more)
While many Pennsylvanians celebrated the arrival of 2011 on New Year’s Eve, home builders in the state likely did not blow their bugles and pop their poppers with quite as much exuberance. That is because this year marks the beginning of a new government mandate in Pennsylvania requiring that all new one- and two-family homes have an automatic fire sprinkler system — a feature that costs thousands of dollars. (more)
The ACLU of Pennsylvania says State Police have agreed to stop citing people for disorderly conduct when they use profanity. (more)
City garbage pickup resumes Monday – and New Yorkers say it’s not a moment too soon. (more)

























