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In classrooms around Butler County, no matter the grade level, students are spending more time getting hands-on instruction in the STEAM disciplines.
Recent scientific projections indicate the opioid overdose crisis will worsen between now and 2025, and dramatically so.
In these early weeks of the presidential campaign, Democratic candidates have faced a battery of unusual questions, prompted partly by President Trump’s dark warning in his State of the Union...
There’s a scourge threatening the neighborhoods of North Carolina. Thankfully, it’s no match for the long arm of the legislature.
The Butler Zoning Hearing Board did the right thing this week when it approved a special exemption allowing Robin’s Home to provide transitional housing for women military veterans and their...
The 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident has produced an irony no fiction writer, however brazen, could produce: TMI’s owner, the Exelon Corp.
Elizabeth Warren, the pointy end of the spear of Democratic radicalism, has called for the end of the Electoral College.
If I had to describe 2019 so far, I would characterize it as The Year Political Polarization Started to Erode.
Don’t overlook the significance of what police Detective John Johnson said during a recent court hearing about drug “host houses.”
Every time I hear a Republican complain about Facebook, Twitter or Google, I think, “Wait — aren’t you the ‘hands off the internet’ party?”
We all know that “getting into the right college” is as traumatic for parents — or more so — as it is for their children.
As of July 1, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (DOC) will make all state prisons tobacco-free. Butler County has long been ahead of the curve on this issue.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 50 people with being involved in cheating and bribery to get their children admitted to some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges and...
The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated itself an organization hostile to women and people of color.
I have lived in the South Butler County School District for over 50 years and my husband has lived here for almost 73 years.
Late Thursday night, after hours of vacillating, the media finally agreed on how to handle the video shot by the chief suspect in the New Zealand mosque shootings.
He said he wasn’t running for president, no way, forget it, and now he is, meaning that Beto O’Rourke can probably change his mind on issues, too.
It’s the robocall no parent ever wants to answer.
If your only tool is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail, Abraham Maslow wrote in his 1966 book, “The Psychology of Science.” The wry axiom became known as Maslow’s Hammer.
Those of us who have always thought that Brexit — Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union — was a bad idea should be feeling self-satisfied and vindicated now.
I read the Salty School Lunch editorial and was shocked. I was a child of the 1950s and '60s, and if you look at class photos of elementary students from my era, it's rare to find overweight kids.
My son Bill never got a name of the kind and honest person who found his wallet and turned it in at the Walmart office the first week of March.
Regarding the racist poster issue at Slippery Rock University.
Bizarre, hilarious and disturbing, the college-admissions scandal is a perfect fit for our political moment.
In the age of “wokeness,” the word privilege is so frequently used, some might argue misused, that it sometimes doesn’t mean what it used to mean.
