Ed Rendell News

US Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa., who's running against incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., in next year's Senate primary, has come up with a novel way to solve Pennsylvania's controversial road-and-bridge finance and highway-tolling controversies: Instead of slapping drivers with unpopular highway fees, why not fund roadwork with fees on natural-gas ...

Gov. Ed Rendell steps away from the Soldiers National Monument after placing a wreath there Thursday morning.

Interesting question; I know some think we are. Is it the economy, or a function of an information explosion force-feeding citizens more facts and fiction than ever before? There's no shortage of suggestions that democracy's in danger.

With six months until the May 18 primary election, few people in Pennsylvania - and even fewer in the Valley - know who any of the five Democratic candidates for governor are.

Ed Rendell forbidden by the state constitution from running for a third term, the race is on to become the Democrat who breaks a long-running state cycle.

The public corruption charges that Attorney General Tom Corbett has filed against 12 House Democratic caucus members and 10 Republican caucus members seem certain to become major elements in campaigns for governor and the state House next year.

No one expects her to start downing cheesesteaks. But no one could blame Joan Orie Melvin , newly elected state Supreme Court justice, for having a sudden and understandable soft spot for all things Philadelphia.

Two candidates for governor in 2010, Democrat Tom Knox and Republican Jim Gerlach, say Republican Tom Corbett should step down as attorney general if he plans to continue to lead an investigation into alleged corruption in the state Legislature.

Govs. Haley Barbour, a Republican from Mississippi, and Ed Rendell, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, offered different takes on Tuesday's election results and House passage of a health care reform bill Saturday night.

If Tom Knox had his way, none of the four other top Democrats who plan to run for governor next year would be eligible to get on the ballot - not if they retained their current jobs, anyway.

Meet the Press : Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey ; Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour ; Pennsylvania Gov.

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President Barack Obama speaks about health care reform in the White Houses'sA Rose GardenA after returning from Camp David on Sunday.

Trolleys, subways and buses were running again Monday and riders were trickling back to the city's transit system after an early-morning contract agreement ended a crippling six-day strike.

Nov. 8: David Brooks, E.J. Dionne, Rachel Maddow and Ed Gillespie discuss the mood of the country and the future of each political party.

Last Tuesday's voting marked the midpoint in Pennsylvania's two-year legislative cycle.

Pennsylvania's governor has walked away from the stalemated negotiations aimed at ending a days-old transit strike in Philadelphia.

On ABC's "This Week," George Stephanopoulos lets the two party leaders go toe-to-toe. It's Gov.

Philadelphia's striking transit union says it will have no updates on the contract negotiations until Friday morning.

Luzerne County judges plan to deputize dozens of local attorneys and appoint them as de facto judges handling a glut of civil cases that have languished as the court struggles with vacancies on the bench and a growing criminal caseload.