Topic: Pennsylvania Politics

It’s not legislators, anyway. A local political consultant weighs in on our twin crises, and how we can hold electeds accountable.

Counties across the state will decide how to use the money from opioid producers. Researchers at Penn State, Temple and Pitt created a database so the rest of us can see how they’re doing

A public-private partnership in South Bend, Indiana lets employers and nonprofits offer free and low-cost Uber, Lyft and bus trips to workers and clients. Could this be a way to weather the next SEPTA doomsday?

State Treasurer Stacy Garrity — who received the most votes of any PA candidate ever in her reelection bid last year — may already be the Commonwealth’s most successful female politician of all time. But is that enough?

The nonprofit law firm endlessly fighting for PA students and their families is honoring three “champions” at a fundraising gala, including Citizen Board Member Jennifer Rice

Current members of the PA Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Court have a unique place on the general election ballot

Compromise may finally be in the air. Some thoughts (including a Mellencamp cameo?) on the politics behind our budgetary fiasco — and why a win/win has been so elusive

The debate over SEPTA funding has led at least one local legislator to suggest a radical approach to state governance

The Mayor has been silent. The Governor is rallying the already converted. Whatever happened to preventing a crisis before it starts?

A Philly high schooler on how the transit agency’s proposed cuts will be especially hard for one group of people, including her mother — and thousands more Philadelphians with disabilities