The National Organization for Women, which says it will target Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts in next year’s election, is holding a rally Saturday morning in opposition to the health-care amendment the congressman co-authored with Democrat Bart Stupak.
Lois Herr, the Democratic candidate for the 16th Congressional District seat, will be one of the speakers and […]

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The county commissioners on Wednesday rejected, by a 2-1 vote, a spring arbitration award that gives county corrections officers raises in 2010 and 2011. The arbitration panel gave the 185 corrections officers, who are represented by AFSCME Council 89, a 7 percent pay this year. The officers are contributing more toward their medical benefits. It […]

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From today’s paper:

Planned for Thursday’s paper:

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Yeah, we had problems well before Bonusgate. I love the Patriot-News’ not-so-brief history of political wrongdoing — alleged and otherwise — in our fair state.

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Politically Uncorrected
By G. Terry Madonna & Michael L. Young
TOM CORBETT’S PROBLEM
Attorney General Tom Corbett has a problem. More precisely, he had a problem. More about that in a moment!
Corbett’s problem was the same problem confronted by each of his predecessors since the Office of Attorney General became elective in 1980:  how to leverage his statewide […]

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Republican Tony Allen conceded the race for Lancaster Township supervisor early this afternoon after a painstaking, 3½-hour manual recount showed his Democratic opponent won by 13 votes. “That’s it,” Allen said after the tally was announced by Lancaster County elections officials shortly before 2:30 p.m.
The results will bring an end to Allen’s 18-year career as […]

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You’ve heard about those taxpayer-funded robocalls Rep. John Perzel ordered against fellow Republicans who refused to “adequately conform to his directives” on how they should vote. Perzel also allegedly directed those calls be made against lawmakers he felt had become a “liability” to the caucus, according to the grand jury’s presentment. One of those targets, […]

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Of all the things in the grand jury’s 188-page Bonusgate presentment against John Perzel, I found this the most humorous: Perzel allegedly punished a group of Republican House members who refused to “adequately conform to his directives” on how they should vote by directing untraceable “robo” or automated calls against them in their districts. “The […]

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Lancaster County elections officials completed their official canvassing of votes in the race for Lancaster Township supervisor this morning, and though they found four votes that had not been previously counted, the discovery did not change the outcome of the race. Democrat Ben Bamford picked up two of those votes, bringing his total to 1,190, […]

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I like the list of potential candidates for retiring Rep. Katie True’s seat put together by TalkBackers. As I mentioned yesterday, I’ve talked to some of those folks, and so far only four five have confirmed that are considering a run: Ryan Aument, Dave Dumeyer, Brett Miller, Mike Pickard and Scott Wiglesworth. I’ve also talked […]

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