Mother’s Day has been a national holiday for 110 years, but its roots go back even further, and shows the role mothers play in healing.
On May 8, 1914, Congress passed a ...
Now that the 2024 presidential nominees for both major parties have been decided, what promises to be a truly historic campaign is in full swing. And while primary electi...
After reading Jill Gurvey’s insidious anti-Israel column this morning (May 5, 2024) in the Eagle, my first emotion was enragement that a Jewish Palestinian sympathizer ca...
Although college isn’t for everyone, earning a degree still offers a pathway to success for many Americans. Yet each year, hundreds of thousands of low-income, college-re...
This year promises to be a whopper for elective government, with billions of people — or more than 40% of the world’s population — able to vote in an election. But nearly...
If you follow education policy at all, you’ve probably heard about the looming “Fiscal Cliff.” As pandemic-era federal support runs out, school districts that used tempor...
The Eagle’s recent Pathways to Recovery series offered a deep dive into the options available to those struggling with addiction.
As that series was winding down, the Bu...
Older adults add incredible value to America’s workforce. But increasingly seniors are returning to work to merely make ends meet. Low savings, longer lives and a rickety...
One of the most tragic parts of the death of a young person is the lost potential — the things left undone.
As we learned in the Wednesday, May 8, edition of the Butler E...
Iran’s supreme leader has been enjoying himself lately on X, the social media platform. In one post, he delighted at pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. campuses; in another...
Whether or not you side with the student protesters making waves at Columbia University and other college campuses over the war in Gaza, we can probably all agree that ir...
The chatter on social media was prevalent. Was it possible the Butler Dek Hockey rink’s future was in jeopardy?
A rumor about how the dek hockey rink could be replaced w...
The We the People competition has trained young Americans to know and engage in our democratic system for more than 30 years.
It has long been recorded that Benjamin Fran...
As the magnitude of the bird flu outbreak in cattle becomes clearer, so does the need to quickly get a firmer grip on some basic facts. Namely, how far this H5N1 virus ha...
The Eagle has for several months been covering the saga of former registered nurse and convicted murderer Heather Pressdee.
Pressdee, 41, of Natrona Heights, was sentence...
The gut-wrenching photos and story of bikers mourning a riding buddy during a memorial ride should serve as a heartbreaking reminder that the emptiness and grief felt by ...
Decades of research show that on average, children who grow up with parents who are not married and living together have worse achievement and behavioral and well-being o...
It has been nearly seven years since the #MeToo movement rocked social media, with millions of women posting publicly about their experiences of sexual assault in respons...
In regard to Melissa Somerville’s letter to the editor, “Trash cleanup much appreciated,” in the April 21 Butler Eagle, I could not agree with her more. Why people think ...
On behalf of the Community Meal Ministries in Butler — First English Lutheran Church, All Saints Parish, Saint Andrews United Presbyterian Church, St. Mark’s Evangelical ...
Recently, while cleaning out my basement, I came across a picture of myself from 1983. The photo was taken at my Reform Movement Jewish summer camp, located on several ac...
A plan to create a new home for the Mars Area Public Library, as well as a NASA-related discovery center, is an example of how communities can collaborate for the good of...
Across the country, most high school classrooms still resemble their 20th century counterparts despite massive changes in the workforce over the past 50 years.
Today’s jo...
With how wet April was, it might seem incongruous to be worried about brush fires, but it doesn’t take long at all for the weather conditions to be right to help fires sp...
I’m a small-business owner who employs 40 people in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, policymakers in Harrisburg and Washington, D.C., are considering new regulations that wou...
Over 200 days into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs to decide what matters more: extracting ultimate revenge on Hamas, and in t...
Want to keep up on the latest news in your neighborhood? Want to know what the new business is moving in down the street? What upgrades are coming at the closest park?
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It’s easy to understand why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is so upset about the Federal Trade Commission’s decision to ban noncompete agreements. The problem for businesse...
In recent days, the inflation indicators have stubbornly signaled that a high tide of prices is still soaking us consumers. Growing at a 3.5% annual rate in March, the Co...
Katheryn “Katie” Yomes, of Butler, was caring and compassionate during her short life, according to an article on Page 1 in the Sunday Butler Eagle, but she was even more...
