Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. But in Pennsylvania, lawmakers should be far more concerned about the ...

High-flying ideals often crash and burn when they run into the intractable obstacle of practical politics. There is, perhaps, no better example than Pennsylvania’s law allowing candidates for local ...

Do you even remember a judicial election? In all the time you’ve been a voter — making choices and casting ballots — do you ever recall a campaign for a Pennsylvania judge at any level? Probably not.

Under the Pennsylvania Election Code, candidates for school boards, for county courts of common pleas and for district judgeships may run as a Republican, a Democrat or both in the spring primaries.

When I was a little girl, there was no such thing as cross-filing. Candidates who wanted to win a nomination – and they could only win one – had to stick with their party affiliations and hope that ...

Different political parties have different political philosophies and approaches to governance, so a candidate’s affiliation with one of them at least indicates to voters how that individual might ...

Different political parties have different political philosophies and approaches to governance, so a candidate’s affiliation with one of them at least indicates to voters how that individual might ...

Many state legislators around the country somehow have concluded that cross-dressing is a major issue regarding school governance. In Pennsylvania, however, lawmakers should be far more concerned ...

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Call it the curse of cross-filing. As election results were pouring in Tuesday night, political pundit Joseph Sabino Mistick noticed a trend emerging in the Allegheny County Common Pleas Court race.