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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

HARRISBURG — When Devon Taliaferro first ran for school board in Pittsburgh Public Schools, she filed as a Democrat. She’s a registered member of the party and considers herself a progressive on ...

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.

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 ...

Thank you so much for publishing “Cross-filing in school races is just absurd” (Daily Times, May 10). In just the last two weeks, registered Democrats in Haverford Township have seen proof of the ...

Editor: On the May 18 ballot will be judicial and school board candidates. Under current law those candidates can “cross file” on the Democratic and Republican ballots as a means of “keeping politics ...