Santorum returns to Keystone State
Always outspoken, Pennsylvania’s presidential candidate Rick Santorum is still talking a lot these days. Besides his regular Philadelphia Inquirer column, he was back in Iowa recently, dropped into New...
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– The National Review, the magazine of the nation’s conservative movement, is, not surprisingly. predicting Democratic Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski’s demise in the Nov. 2 election. In this story, writer Jim...
View ArticleNealon, Minora have to start over
BY BORYS KRAWCZENIUK STAFF WRITER Lackawanna County Judges Terrence R. Nealon and Carmen D. Minora, who were recommended to President Obama for federal judgeships last year, will have to go through a...
View ArticleWelch in, defends being ex-Dem, rips Casey
The newest candidate officially in the U.S. Senate race is Steve Welch, a Chester County businessman, engineer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist who announced today he was “running against who was a...
View ArticleGOP rips Obama in advance of Scranton visit
Republicans are pushing the notion that President Barack Obama’s visit to Scranton today is another example of campaigning at taxpayers’ expense, even though the president is here to push his Social...
View ArticleCasey and Toomey, together again
As part of a trend that started last year, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey plan to sit together again Tuesday for President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. They first did it when Mr....
View ArticleCasey sounds as if he likes his chances tonight
When you’re a Democrat running statewide in Pennsylvania, you always hope lots of voters show up to vote. It’s simple. The state has more than 1.1 million more Democrats than Republicans. So naturally...
View ArticleCasey to host fundraiser for Allyson Schwartz
U.S. Sen Bob Casey might be hedging his bets in the governor’s race. He’s hosting a fundraiser for U.S. Rep. Allyson Schwartz, who is thinking seriously about stepping into the 2014 race for governor,...
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Full text of Bishop Joseph Bambera on Casey same-sex switch
Bishop Joseph C. BamberaIn case you missed it, here is the complete text of Diocese of Scranton Bishop Joseph C. Bambera’s statement regarding U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s support of same-sex marriage: “On...
View ArticleQuinnipiac poll leftovers
A few things from the Quinnipiac University polls that we didn’t report last week: – More Pennsylvania voters thought the state should expand its Medicaid program as part of the implementation of the...
View ArticleObama heads for Pa. turf where he’s still liked to stump for Wolf
Well, well, looks like the president isn’t entirely homebound by his slumping approval ratings. He’s coming to Temple University in Philadelphia on Sunday to boost voter enthusiasm for Democratic...
View ArticleCorbett rallies the troops, who include guys who might want his job someday
Republicans rallied for Gov. Tom Corbett’s re-election today in Dunmore, but his visit to Sherwood Freightliner also felt like an audition. The speakers before Mr. Corbett included three potential...
View ArticleHere’s how the governor’s race vote broke down statewide
Hot off my desktop. I just got done figuring out the vote totals by region in the governor’s race. Once again, a Democrat, this time Tom Wolf, used the increasingly reliable Ed Rendell strategy to win...
View ArticleWolf names transition team leaders, including Casey aide Jim Brown
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf named his transition team Thursday and it’s an interesting mix of people. Start with transition chairman John A. Fry, the president of Drexel University. The three vice chairs are...
View ArticleLocal congressmen mostly vote for Keystone XL pipeline, but not Cartwright
Just in case you were wondering, here’s how the local guys who represent Northeast Pennsylvania in Washington voted on closing debate to allow for a separate vote on approving the Keystone XL pipeline....
View ArticleCasey addresses Norway conference on Afghan women
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey no longer sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but he’s still interested in related topics, especially the way governments and societies treat women and children around...
View ArticleIf Wall Street melts down again, maybe local reps in Congress will share the...
Just in case you missed it while Christmas shopping over the weekend, the U.S. Senate finished off a $1.1 trillion spending bill that prevents a government shutdown. It does lots of worthy things and...
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This is kind of fun to know. As Democrats push legislation trying to get employers to provide paid maternity and paternity leave for employees, the Huffington Post, Roll Call and the New York Times...
View ArticleCasey still publicly silent on Hillary endorsement for president next year
Let’s step back to 2008 when Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in Pennsylvania for a six-week stay, a mini-Iowa primary election stop on the way to the Democratic nomination for...
View ArticleThis time, Casey endorses Clinton early
U.S. Sen. Bob Casey did today what he refused to do seven years ago. The senator from Scranton endorsed former first lady and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for president. Back in 2008, Mr....
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