Chaka Fattah

THE HUSBAND of City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown -- who admitted earlier this year to a series of campaign-finance violations -- was laid off last week from his job at the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority for budgetary reasons, officials say....

N McDANIEL, former campaign manager for City Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, was sentenced yesterday to one year in federal prison for stealing more than $100,000 from her campaign account. McDaniel, according to documents filed in the case, has...

Former Gov. Ed Rendell and former Mayor W. Wilson Goode have launched a fund-raising effort to pay the legal bills of U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah's son, who has been under federal investigation for months. Rendell said he agreed to pitch in after Rep. Fattah...

IN BLOUNT walked up to what used to be a Social Security Administration field office in North Philadelphia this week and was shocked and angry. It was early afternoon, normal business hours, but steel gates covered the glass windows of the office on...

The mayors of Allentown and Bethlehem were among the thousands of individuals and corporations who donated a total of $43 million to President Obama's second inauguration. Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski contributed $300 and his wife, Lisa, gave $305....

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Another weekend is upon us and the forecast, at least here in the seat of power, is calling for some decidedly non-spring like weather. So that means only one thing -- creating your own party.......

It appears Charlie Dent's staff is a loyal bunch. The Lehigh Valley congressman holds on to more of his congressional staff than all but one Pennsylvania lawmaker and nearly all of his U.S. House colleagues, according to a study by the Sunlight...

Local area U.S. Reps. Charlie Dent, a Republican, and Allyson Schwartz, a Democrat, joined just 38 House members Wednesday night in support of a bipartisan budget modeled on the plan developed by a presidential commission chaired by former U.S. Sen....

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. The state House enters its final two days of voting sessions for the year today with essentially two tasks before it: To possibly pass a capital budget bill and to rustle up the votes to......

Good Wednesday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Our countdown of the year's top political stories continues this morning with a geography lesson. Or, more specifically, a lesson about the inherently political nature of mapmaking in Pennsylvania. To quickly...

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. And right on time, the reaction to the Marcellus shale impact fee kicked out of the House Finance Committee earlier this week is starting to filter in. Local officials are particularly honked off at language......

In 6,102 words Obama seeks to portray himself as the compromiser-in-chief on the stalemated deficit reduction talks....