In his Senate race against Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey is using a favorite GOP issue: taxes. In an ad, Toomey charges that “Joe Sestak … even wants to bring back the death tax, letting the IRS take half of your savings when you die.”

Endorses Candidacy at Event in Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Calling him a principled and independent leader who will always do what’s right regardless of partisan politics, former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel endorsed Joe Sestak in his bid for the U.S. Senate today. Speaking in front of the Point of View Statue in downtown Pittsburgh, the […]

Taxes increasingly occupy the national mind. Should we raise them, lower them, let them alone, or just talk about them? Certainly we are doing enough of the latter.

Harrisburg Republican’s sole career budget vote was to hike property taxes by 20% SHALER: Even as he is promising millions of dollars in new spending, Tom Corbett is running for Governor on a “no new taxes” pledge.  But the one time he was responsible for enacting a budget, Corbett cast the deciding vote in favor […]

Read the story here. Washington, D.C. – A team led by The Pennsylvania State University will receive up to $122 million over the next five years from the Department of Energy to establish an Energy Innovation Hub focused on developing technologies to make buildings more energy efficient. The Energy Innovation Hub will be located at […]

Twenty-two years ago, Tom Corbett voted for a 20 percent property tax increase as a commissioner in Shaler, which should raise questions about the Republican’s ability to balance the state’s $28 billion budget, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dan Onorato argued today.

Read the story here. Pennsylvania once again has lost its bid to win as much as $400 million in Race to the Top money for education. The U.S. Department of Education today announced 10 winners: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia. The amounts range […]

Congressman Jason Altmire (D-4) was set to take his campaign for a third term to the airwaves on Tuesday.

Springfield, PA –  Representative Bryan Lentz, the Democratic nominee for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 7th Congressional District, announced that he would be touring Aztec Solar Power on Wednesday for the eleventh stop of his 10-week, 25-stop economic tour. The King of Prussia-based company is a leading installer and designer of solar energy systems for homes and […]

“Wall St.” road sign following Toomey on 23 county tour Watch “Pat Toomey: Wrong for America Then, Wrong for Pennsylvania Now”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usm0IogjBkg Pat Toomey just can’t seem to shake his Wall Street past. Please see below for select media coverage of day 1 of PA Vote 2010’s “Wall Street: Mr. Toomey’s Neighborhood Tour”- which will […]