The Family Research Council is urging New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to allow clergy to participate in the solemn observance of 9/11 at ground zero Sunday.
A proposal to impose a levy on Pennsylvania's booming Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction will be debated on the floor of the state House of Representatives, a Republican spokesman said Tuesday, but Gov. Tom Corbett warned he plans to veto whatever might pass.
In a time of major spending cuts, two Republican governors have said they'll spare film-industry tax credits from the budget knife, unlike Republican Gov. Rick Snyder of Michigan, whose proposal to ax them scared the film industry away from his state.
Pennsylvania prosecutors will seek the death penalty for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell in a state that has not executed an inmate in more than a decade.
The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control. Despite their best efforts to take advantage of the tragic shooting in Arizona to promote pointless restrictions on things like the size of handgun magazines, the propaganda campaign is unlikely to go anywhere. Instead, the right to keep and bear arms continues to gain steam as state lawmakers around the country are enacting measures that would have been unthinkable not so long ago.
Their ranks swollen after the last election, Republican governors from Florida to Alaska are undermining President Obama's agenda at every turn ahead of the Democrat's 2012 re-election campaign.
Consumers have filed lawsuits against more than a dozen national retail chains operating in California since the state Supreme Court ruled it's illegal for clerks to ask customers for their ZIP codes.
When they finally resumed routine inspections of abortion clinics last year after more than 15 years, Pennsylvania health regulators ordered 14 of the state's 22 freestanding clinics to remedy problems, a review of records shows.
