Jay Jr Costa

The term "welfare" is defined as the general well-being of an individual or group of individuals. However, when used in association with government services, the term has unfortunately developed a negative connotation. One state agency that suffers from...

HARRISBURG — Choice and convenience. They are two words Gov. Tom Corbett has used often since February. He says them when talking about his budget proposal to expand beer sales and sell the state-owned liquor store system to fund a four-year grant...

Residents in parts of the greater Lehigh Valley are going to need a new score card to keep track of who their state lawmakers are. The state Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld new legislative boundaries for the House and Senate as more geographically...

HARRISBURG _ The company that runs Great Britain’s National Lottery has apparently been tapped to take over the day-to-day management of the Pennsylvania Lottery. The decision to hand the $3.5 billion Lottery over to a North American subsidiary of...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Many of Pennsylvania's 1,200 museums and historical sites have taken a financial drubbing at the hands of state lawmakers over the past six years. Funding through various grant programs and direct appropriations, which...

Democrats in the Pennsylvania Senate added a new wrinkle to next year’s expected debate on how to pay for billions of dollars in repairs to the state’s roads and bridges, insisting that new money for mass-transit agencies also had to......

So much any hope for a palace coup. Senate Republicans and Democrats held the dullest leadership elections in the history of ever today, re-elecitng the same slate of leaders who saw them through the 2011-12 legislaitive session. Senate President Pro-...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state Department of Education has rejected a request to take control of the financially troubled Vitalisitc Therapeutic Charter School in the Lehigh Valley, our Mothership colleague Steve Esack reports this...

Pennsylvania's unemployment rate hit 8.2 percent in September, up from 8.1 percent in August, and above the national average of 7.8 percent, according to data released by the state Department of Labor & Industry this afternoon. According to L&I, resident....

Today is the final day of the 2011-12 legislative session. State lawmakers are expected to work through the night today to try to wrap up any unfinished business before they depart for an Election Season break With the cancellation of......

The redrawn topography of Pennsylvania's 203 House districts and 50 state Senate seats puts politics ahead of the interests of the voters, an attorney said as the state's highest court took up a challenges to the once-a-decade remapping of legislative.......

Two hotly debated election issues are coming to the forefront this week in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on redistricting and Voter ID starting tomorrow in Philadelphia. Senate democrats are among the dozen...