Cost-of-living issues are driving up tensions in local communities, while immigration is the most polarizing issue nationally, local government officials said in a new survey.

Local officials from around the country are reporting a spike in political polarization within their communities in the months leading up to the midterm elections, with the high cost of living a top ...

An appointment to a local library commission, reluctantly accepted, may not sound like an auspicious event. For Nancy Pelosi, ...

All politics is local is a famous saying attributed to former House Speaker Tip O’Niel. He said this whenever he was asked ...

In the five years he spent researching his book Mobilization Politics, Haverford College political scientist Stephen J. McGovern interviewed former Mayor Jim Kenney and other Philadelphia elected ...