Dominic Pileggi

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. It's pretty inarguable that it's been a tough seven or 10 days for Pennsylvania's Capital City. The Susquehanna River overflowed its banks last week, putting vast swaths of the city underwater. Now, with its...

The state Senate Republican who masterminded a plan to overhaul the way Pennsylvania allocates its Electoral College votes dug in his heels Friday, even as some senior GOP chieftains said they wanted to find a way to stop it. “It’s......

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. As Pennsylvania Republicans roll into town tonight for their fall meeting, they'll be confronting an issue as contentious as any one they've dealt with in recent years: Namely, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi'...

Glancing Around The Headlines ... ... this morning, the Senate GOP plan href="http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-electoral-college-change-20110913,0,5747360.story">to change Pennsylvania's electoral college process has gone...

Good Sunday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, September threw down the window pretty abruptly. And all of a sudden it's tweed jacket weather. Nothing makes us long for our native New England more -- except, perhaps for a fall collapse by......

Gov. Tom Corbett on Saturday defended his decision to not spend the state’s more than $700 million fiscal 2010-2011 budget surplus, saying that money might be needed for storm clean-up. “We have some bridges that are going to have to......

Flood-stricken Pennsylvanians could qualify for extra financial assistance under a package of bills a group of northeastern state lawmakers say they plan to introduce later this week. State residents trying to rebuild their lives in the wake of historic...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. We arrived at Capitol Ideas World Headquarters on this unseasonably warm March morning to find Gov. Tom Corbett a touch on the defensive side on their cuts to higher education. "Let's go back to the numbers, the facts:...

Updated, 1:11 p.m.: With the insistent threat of rain, hundreds of teachers, parents and their children gathered on the Capitol steps this afternoon to call on lawmakers to pass a bill allowing taxpayer-funded school vouchers. "What do we want? School.......

Senate Republicans And Gov. Tom Corbett ... ... have apparently resolved their differences over a stalled school vouchers bill, Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, said this afternoon. "We've made very good progress and we have agreement...

State Education Secretary Ron Tomalis ... ... has sent the clearest signal yet that the Corbett administration is backing a compromise vouchers bill now before the Senate Education Committee. Speaking before a packed Capitol rally, Tomalis told hundreds...

That Says It All, Really. No sooner had the House passed a bill expanding the state's popular Educational Improvement Tax Credit,a senior Senate Republican said it had no future on his side of the Capitol. "I can only speak for......