Barry McFarland  

Sometimes going negative works in politics.

Other times? Not so much.

The race for state House in northern Lancaster County might serve as a good example of how slinging a bucketload of mud at a campaign foe can backfire — and how a strong ground game proves more important.

Manheim sa...

Rick Santorum's withdrawal from the presidential race appears to have cleared Mitt Romney's path toward the Republican nomination. It also knocked some of the excitement out of Tuesday's Republican primary in Pennsylvania.

But there are still a handful of reasons to pay attention to what voters o...

Manheim Borough police on Sunday used an electronic tracking device to locate two stolen campaign signs belonging to Steve Black, Republican candidate for state representative in the 37th Legislative District.

Chief Joseph Stauffer said a 14-year-old boy, who lives at a house in the 200 block of ...

Supporters of Republican Mindy Fee's state House campaign struck back at her primary opponent, Stephen D. Black, on Thursday, calling a recent negative ad "underhanded" and raising questions about his fundraising sources.
"Can we really trust someone who has used some dirty tricks to try to win the ...

A Republican state House candidate from the Lititz area has gone negative on one of his primary opponents, Mindy Fee, for having been a registered Democrat more than a decade a ago.

In a new mailer, Steve Black's campaign claims Fee was a "Bill Clinton-Al Gore Democrat" in the late 1990s, and tel...

U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts says he came away from this week's Supreme Court hearings with a suspicion that the justices might throw out the entire 2010 health care reform law.

The court weighed, among other issues, whether it could handle just the individual mandate requiring Americans to either buy ins...

Republican state Rep. Tom Creighton, who is on his way out of Harrisburg, raised the ire of many constituents for reneging on a campaign pledge to turn down a pension.

With less than two months until the April 24 primary, now seems like the perfect time to get the candidates seeking to replace hi...

Obama who? Romney what?

The year 2012 promises to be a big one in politics — and we're not even talking about the presidential contest. The slate is chock-full at the local and state levels, where the rubber really meets the road.

You might have read about the pledged and unpledged candi...

John Weigel said something at Saturday's county Democratic Party convention that one doesn't usually hear at a Democratic political event.
"I am proud to say I am a follower of Jesus Christ," Weigel announced to the 125 people gathered Saturday morning at The Country Barn, adding, "and that is preci...

Republican U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts will face a Democratic challenger this year after all — and the candidate is running right in the lawmaker's own backyard.

Aryanna Strader, 29, of Kennett Square, is endorsed by the Chester County Democratic Committee and has been meeting with clubs here in La...