Pennsylvania’s former junior Republican U.S. senator says in a Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed that the state’s primary could — could — be a factor in the GOP presidential contest. Follow along, kids:
Assuming no one breaks out by running the table in South Carolina and Florida, each of the five candidates could win at least one […]

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From The AP this morn: “In a move sure to rekindle speculation that he has higher political ambitions, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has agreed to make a public appearance with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in Los Angeles on Saturday, Rendell’s spokesman confirmed. Democrat Rendell plans to join Bloomberg, an independent who is weighing […]

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Good morning. What can I tell you?
JUST SAY NO: Lancaster County ACTION holds its quarterly breakfast this morning, and a trio of Republicans on the county’s government study commission — Greg Sahd, Jim Bednar and Jim Huber — will talk about why home rule is bad stuff. The breakfast runs from 8 to 10 a.m. […]

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The AP reports: “Atlantic City, the gambling resort which for years has known nothing but ever-increasing revenue, got a painful wake-up call in 2007. Year-end figures released Thursday by the state Casino Control Commission show a 5.7 percent decrease in revenue from the previous year, the first decline since casino gambling began here in 1978. […]

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Good stuff from Ken Schaefer, a former Certified Public Accountant who now chairs the Annville-based group Vote for Integrity:
Political activist Gene Stilp lost his legal attempt to force the state Auditor General to conduct audits of the General Assembly’s financial affairs. The Supreme Court’s decision that Mr. Stilp “lacked standing” ended another effort to achieve […]

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Yesterday we told you about VoteHelp, a brief but useful questionnaire designed to do all the heavy lifting for ya when deciding on a presidential candidate this year. I gotta say I was a little surprised, and maybe you were too, at the top match. (Let’s just say VoteHelp’s ideal candidate, based on my answers, […]

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The U.S. Census Bureau has just released 2005 poverty estimates for each of the nation’s almost 14,000 Title I-eligible school districts, including the 16 in Lancaster County. The estimates are produced in order for the Department of Education to implement provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The data are the only […]

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How much did this …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq9wAHk-S_A
have to do with this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gs0vyf3u5U
Slate.com’s Timothy Noah says crying, once frowned upon (see Edmund Muskie), is back in style.
Maureen Dowd opines: “There was a poignancy about the moment, seeing Hillary crack with exhaustion from decades of yearning to be the principal rather than the plus-one. But there was a whiff of […]

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Do you support exploratory drilling for oil even in areas that are environmentally sensitive or preserves? Believe government should help provide health care for all citizens? Support a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants already in the U.S.? If so, to which president candidate should you be sending all your spare change? If you’re a […]

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The conservative Commonwealth Foundation is asking Pennsylvanians to donate those free calendars printed by the Legislature every year — at taxpayer expense — so it can sell them on eBay. The House spent $90,000 printing 240,000 calendars, and the Senate spent $41,500 on 56,600 calendars, according to the chief clerks of both chambers. Each senator […]

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