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. But in Pennsylvania, lawmakers should be far more concerned about the ...

Should candidates in Pennsylvania school board races be permitted to cross-file? Cross-filing is allowed only in lower-level judicial races and for school board candidates in the Keystone State. It is ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

When voters in Region 1 of the Tredyffrin/Easttown school district go to the polls on Nov. 6, they’ll notice that a guy named James D. Bruce is running for school board on the Democratic ticket. Then ...

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Local judicial and school board primary elections are structured on the perfectly reasonable belief that they should be above the rough and tumble of politics because their work in office should be ...

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 ...

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 ...