Former U.S. Rep. Robert S. Walker, of Manheim Township, has announced his support of Tom Corbett for governor, saying Pennsylvania’s attorney general is the Republican with the best chance of “helping our party take back the Governor’s office” and restoring fiscal discipline in Harrisburg. PoliticsPa has Walker’s full statement here. Walker retired from Congress in […]

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AMVETS Post 19 will hold its annual “Meet the Candidates” night on Sunday, Oct. 18. If you’re not familiar with this event, it’s become a staple of the local political scene since its founder, the late Harold Sommers, launched it back in 1996. This year’s event will be held from 5 to 9 p.m. As […]

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Spending and tax bills approved by the Republican-controlled Senate earlier today are on their way to the House, where Democrats are threatening to strip $12 million in what they believe are discretionary grants from the $27.8 billion plan and quickly send it back to the Senate. Senate Republicans, meantime, say those $12 million in line […]

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The latest on the Pa. budget standoff.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will give “A Report from Washington” at Franklin & Marshall College on Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held at F&M’s Barshinger Center for the Musical Arts in Hensel Hall. It is co-sponsored by the Center for Liberal […]

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Rep. John C. Bear, a Lititz Republican, scheduled a rally in support of a bill that would end project labor agreements in Pennsylvania, contracts he says reward unions with large contracts and drive up the cost of taxpayer-funded projects.
The local trade unions found out about it. They drowned out the lawmaker’s supporters with chants of […]

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… and watch this. It’s gotta beat anything else on the tube tonight. Seriously.

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