Mark Critz

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Sorry for being tardy. As you might imagine, things started early and ended late yesterday. So here's a quick round-up of Election Day action across the state. In the race for the White House, President......

Pennsylvania’s reputation as one of the nation’s key electoral battlegrounds will be put to the test Tuesday as President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney fight it out for the state’s 20 electoral votes and, each hopes, a trip to....

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We never thought we'd hear ourselves say this, but Pennsylvania, thank you for being the stick-in-the-mud, stuck-in-your-ways kind of state that's driven us batty for more than a decade. That's because the state's...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A special judicial panel will decide whether state Supreme Court Justice Joan Orie Melvin should continue to receive her $195,000 taxpayer-funded salary while she fights public corruption charges, the Post-Gazette...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. A charter school reform bill that keeps local school boards in control of authorizing the alternative public schools is headed for a vote in the state House today as lawmakers try to wrap up their......

Good Monday Morning Fellow Seekers. Pennsylvania’s public school students have been in class for weeks, but state lawmakers will finally return to work today for an abbreviated fall voting session that could end up being as notable for what doesn&#...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The scene, a courtroom. The time is just around daybreak. A rooster crows. MAN 1 enters from stage left, carrying a briefcase, he sits down at a table in front of the ornately carved judge's......

U.S. Rep. Dan Webster and his challenger in Florida's 10th District, Val Demings, are both campaigning for senior votes today — and Demings is getting a little help from Bowzer of Sha Na Na fame. Jon “Bowzer” Bauman, best known as a...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We're headed out of town for a long weekend. But we couldn't leave you without this quick-hit digest of the best of the day's political headlines. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board member Patrick J. "P.J." Stapleton......

Somerset County election results show that while some write-in votes were reserved for real people, others were cast for Disney characters.   In Somerset County Berlin resident Paul Ritchey ran a write-in campaign in the 9th Congressional District...

At this time of year Linda Thomson is usually making a list and checking it twice in preparation for the Showcase for Commerce.   This year, however, the Johnstown Area Regional Industries president isn't so sure there will be a Christmas in May for...

About 66 percent of registered voters in Somerset County went to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes.   County solicitor Dan Rullo said that everything went well during Tuesday's election. He said officials dealt with a few minor problems with...