Mike Folmer

HARRISBURG — In the last three years, the Bethlehem Area School District and other districts have spent lots of money rewriting curriculum and lessons to prepare students for tougher state-sanctioned academic standards and exams. "It's got to be...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well while you (and we) were off watching football and pledging to never, ever, ever again mix gin and Uranium 238 for a batch of Special New Year's Eve Punch, lawmakers in Washington were getting......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, here we are, starting one of the last working days before the Christmas interval. Hopefully you have all your shopping finished and you've laid in a sufficient supply of Curiously Strong Adult Beverages so......

With Pennsylvania's uproarious court battle over voter photo identification coming to a head, another court battle over the electoral process, probably more significant, may be overlooked. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will hold a hearing on Thursday to...

Good Thursday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state Senate wrapped up its calendar for the year last night by approving a map of the 18 Congressional districts Pennsylvania will have in 2012. The narrow 26-24 vote saw four Republicans: Mike Brubaker......

Good Thursday Morning Fellow Seekers. We're into the home stretch of another week and things are starting to pick up speed. In recognition of your oh-so-busy schedule, here's a warp-speed roundup of the Top Five Stories making news this 23rd......

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The latest chapter in Harrisburg's version of the Culture Wars gets off to an enthusiastic start this morning as the House State Government Committee meets at 9 a.m. to consider a constitutional amendment banning...

Pennsylvania is getting set to join more than 30 other states that ban all motorists from texting while driving. The state Senate’s vote on Tuesday, 45-5, approved an amended version of a bill it easily passed in June and sent it to the desk of...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Another week is in the books and another weekend is upon us. So we'll get the good vibes started with a few congratulatory announcements. A hearty Capitol Ideas mazel tov goes out in advance to......

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum may not live in Pennsylvania any more, but he still has friends here. Calling him the right man for the right time, 15 members of the 30-member Republican caucus in the state Senate have come out......

In America, to have a real chance of getting elected you have to be part of one of two parties, Repbulicans or Democrats. It’s not very often that a third party candidate successfully gets elected. However a Senate bill may change that. A bill has...

A Senate bill would make it easier for third-party candidates and independents to appear on the November ballot. Republican Sen. Mike Folmer, of Lebanon, introduced the Voters’ Choice Act, which is supported by the Pennsylvania Ballot Access...