Pennsylvania is spending $400 million to construct two new prisons at the SCI-Graterford site in Montgomery County after slashing nearly $1 billion in public education funding. The funds are in addition to the $1.8 billion corrections budget signed by Republican…

The progressive activist group Keystone Progress today released a report showing that state legislation to oppose healthcare reform and support privatization was copied from model legislation developed behind closed doors with major corporate donors at the American Legislative Exchange Council…

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a gun-toting 48-year-old who represents Pittsburgh’s fast-growing, far-out Butler County exurbs, has spent more than a decade slogging his way toward power. For years, he was a nobody in Harrisburg, and the media paid far more…

State Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a gun-toting 48-year-old who represents Pittsburgh’s fast-growing, far-out Butler County exurbs, has spent more than a decade slogging his way toward power. For years, he was a nobody in Harrisburg, and the media paid far more…

Neal Santos NOT SPOKEN FOR: Counselor Hua Chau (second from left) stands surrounded by supporters, including concerned parent My Dung Ly (center). [ communication ] Last Friday, parents presented 400 signatures to the School Reform Commission demanding that Hua Chau,…

PA Liquor Control Board date rape ad spurs controversy Critics say a new ad by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB), the part of state government that sells you wine and liquor, suggests that young women will be raped if…