Jack Wagner

Pa. taxpayers are overfunding charter schools To the editor: Reps. Rob Kauffman and Todd Rock and Sen. Rich Alloway claim to support public education and the taxpayers in their districts who struggle with their property tax bills. Unfortunately, their...

Good Tuesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The Kathleen Kane era in the state Attorney General's office officially gets underway today. The Lackawanna County Democrat will take the oath of office during a 2 p.m. ceremony today in the state Capitol rotunda,.......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Here's a little something to get your motor running as you head out on the highway this morning to look for adventure or whatever comes your way. Causing us to snarf up our very first......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Just when you thought things couldn't get any weirder with the debate over whether to turn the day-to-day management of the $3.5 billion PA Lottery to an English company, the union representing about 200 agency........

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, here it is, the moment that some of you have all been waiting for -- we've reached the No. 1 entry in our countdown of the Top Political Stories of 2012. So break out......

In a law firm conference room 43 stories above Midtown Manhattan where giant windows offered vertiginous views of rain-soaked urban canyons, John Hanger’s ambitions were equally soaring. A former secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of...

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Even as the state spar-over-case-1.1385891">House spars over a non-binding resolution calling for a federal probe of then-Attorney General Tom Corbett's handling of the Sandusky case, there's some additional...

In one of his final acts before leaving office, Auditor General Jack Wagner on Wednesday called on state lawmakers and officials at Penn State University to adopt sweeping reforms that he says will help the university restore its battered public......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. This ones for all the Luddites out there. You know who you are. You proudly proclaim to your friends that you've never Tweeted, Facebooked, Four-Squared, Tumblred or even once downloaded music to your laptop. You......

As he gets ready to run down the curtain on two terms as Pennsylvania's top fiscal watchdog, Auditor General Jack Wagner warned this morning that state taxpayers with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's mounting debtload if the highway agency can't...

Pennsylvania needs to change how it pays for transportation infrastructure. In August 2011, a transportation funding advisory commission appointed by Gov. Tom Corbett issued a set of recommendations for increasing revenue and lowering costs. The...

Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner (D) released a 119-page report Wednesday detailing porposed changes to how Penn State governs itself in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse case. "We are not claiming that implementing our...