The Corbett administration is airing an ad, paid for by the Department Of Public Welfare, that asks Pa. citizens to report welfare fraud.

The candidates for PA Superior Court agreed on most issues during a forum on Friday, with one disagreement: the role of outside money in the campaign.

After initially deciding against mounting a concerted effort to collect sales taxes on purchases from online-only retailers like Amazon.com, Governor Tom Corbett is preparing to implement strategies to ensure more comprehensive collection of such fees, the Patriot-News’ Jan Murphy reported on Friday.

Commonwealth Secretary Carol Aichele defended the new Voter ID mandate in an Inky Op-Ed, but critics are questioning her numbers.

Kathy Boockvar, the Democratic candidate for Commonwealth Court, has an… interesting strategy to bring in the bucks in the final month of the campaign.

[Now with video of both TV ads] Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania, a group whose focus is enforcing conservative orthodoxy among Republican lawmakers, is taking aim at Pat Vance (R-Cumberland) and Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming).

Harrisburg City Council answered the state’s takeover threat by voting to seek Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy protection Tuesday night, essentially adding the courts and more turmoil to the fight over the capital city’s fate.