Man, who doesn’t have a blog. Any newspaper that can even be tossed in the conversation has someone adding to it. There is no end to the number of jerks like me doing much of the same, with less experience and knowledge but increasingly more interest than the more professional. The question, of course, is [...]

A Q&A session for the Allentown Morning Call, posted last week on Capitol Ideas, the state government blog by John L. Micek. Name: Rob Green Position: Reading Clerk, 1994; Assistant Director of Pages, 2006 Education: Alvernia College, Communications, 1990 Q: What are your favorite parts of the job? A: My favorite part is when they’re [...]

A recent post on Capitol Ideas, the popular state government blog by Morning Call reporter John L. Micek. Behold The Power Of Wind. The wind turbine near the Exposition Center on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex has been blowing for nearly two years, but with interest in energy conservation growing, its popularity [...]

I believe there is some line of thought that only those who like you enough will take the time to prank you. If this is true, it is entirely possible that the Harrisburg bureau of the Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the largest and oldest metro dailies in the country, loves me. Late last month, I [...]

There are bottles of Beaujolais Nouveau that age better than this. State lawmakers might close the books on yet another legislative session before they come to grips with a 2005 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized the direct shipment of wine to consumers. ”There’s a lot of things going on” during the upcoming brief legislative [...]

HARRISBURG _ State Sen. Robert C. Wonderling was among the first lawmakers to use a handheld wireless device as a legislative tool, in 2002. “Modern public service is to be as accessible as possible,” said the Montgomery County Republican. “I do that with my BlackBerry.” In between appointments, Wonderling scrolls through articles from state, national [...]

BY John L. Micek and Christopher Wink | A1 story, below the fold HARRISBURG – Carbon and Monroe counties would each be in line for one of the nine cashless toll sites on Interstate 80 under a plan announced Wednesday by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission. The sites proposed for Monroe would sit somewhere between Exit [...]

Who said blog clips aren’t worth anything? Here’s one for Capitol Ideas, the popular state government blog by Morning Call reporter John L. Micek. Republican Chet Beiler wants to be Pennsylvania’s auditor general and used the phrase “tax dollars” often enough today to prove it. Flanked by supporters, Beiler stood in the Capitol rotunda this [...]

The Barack Obama presidential campaign’s focus on Pennsylvania is “unprecedented” Gov. Ed Rendell said in a news conference call I listened in on during this my first day with the Allentown Morning Call for my post-graduate internship with the Pennsylvania Legislative Correspondents’ Association. Rendell was a noted booster for Obama’s primary opponent Hillary Clinton, but [...]