Donald C White

Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers. Well, here we are, starting one of the last working days before the Christmas interval. Hopefully you have all your shopping finished and you've laid in a sufficient supply of Curiously Strong Adult Beverages so......

Good Monday Morning Fellow Seekers. Advocates for the poor, who thought they’d effectively sidelined a controversial bill clearing the way for payday lending in Pennsylvania, are girding for a renewed fight during this fall’s legislative...

Good Monday Morning, Fellow Seekers. As hard as it is to believe, it's been a decade since a mining accident in rural Somerset County focused national attention on Pennsylvania, briefly turned a media star out of then-Gov. Mark Schweiker and......

New Pennsylvania legislative maps were approved Friday afternoon keeping Sen. Rich Kasunic in Somerset County and moving Rep. Frank Burns and Sen. John Wozniak out.   The Legislative Reapportionment Commission approved the maps with a 4-1 vote Friday...

State Sen. Rich Kasunic lost Somerset County entirely in a court-rejected redistricting proposal submitted late last year. With the deck freshly reshuffled, the Dunbar Democrat stands to gain not only his existing territory — approximately 85...

It appears there will be no local primary races for General Assembly seats. Based on the 2001 district maps, state Reps. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Allegheny Township, and Frank Burns, D-East Taylor Township, will not have primary opposition on April 24....

Business leaders and elected officials gathered Thursday for a legislative update held by the Somerset County Chamber of Commerce. About 75 people packed the Somerset Country Club to hear what the elected officials had to say. The event began with...

1. The 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, was chosen as the top story of the year by the Daily American news staff. The Flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated on Sept. 10. Vice President Joe Biden and former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

A plan to redraw state House and Senate lines was approved by the Legislative Reapportionment Commission Monday with a 4-1 vote. The new maps outline 50 Senate districts and 203 House districts for the 2013 session. As expected, Somerset County lost...

Another draft of proposed state Senate districts was released by Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi. Although the draft gives Democratic Sen. John Wozniak more of Somerset County, it still leaves Democratic Sen. Rich Kasunic completely out of the...

Good Afternoon, All. If there was any doubt, it looks like the vogue for reform has passed and the wave of anger from the 2006 cycle has officially subsided. We've just gone and checked the list of candidates from the......

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum ... ... leads ex-Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 41 percent to 35 percent in Pennsylvania as the GOP presidential hopefuls head into high-stakes primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington D.C.today. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of...