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More parents are choosing home schooling over in-class instruction this fall as districts roll out their reopening plans during the global health crisis.
On the one hand, Joe Biden — who is running as the candidate who promises to make the presidency boring again — made the most obvious — that is, boring — selection for his...
Among that sad subset of people whose hobby over the last few months has been speculating about Joe Biden’s running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris of California was always in the lead.
Two friends recently told me they believe coronavirus is all a media hoax and no worse than the annual flu.
Pennsylvania restaurant owners have been crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump issued several new executive orders aimed at extending the COVID-19 economic stimulus that has offered some financial relief to millions of Americans.
In response to Nancy Nicklas’ letter on July 30.
Around the country, canvassers are going door to door to reach residents who have yet to fill out the census, a form of outreach that only started up again last month following delays caused by the...
During these unusual times I find myself thinking about The Virus. With so much ignorance and fear surrounding it, I ask these questions:
A once-in-a-century pandemic that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. A gloomy economic outlook. Mass protests and a bitterly divisive election season.
In reply to a letter to the editor, “GOP answers Democrat’s response to Facebook Post,” July 18, we were given a history lesson on what the Republican Party has done to promote...
Democrats around the country will gather around computer screens and smartphones next week for a strange new version of a timeworn political ritual: their party’s presidential convention.
President Donald Trump trembles at the thought of required mail-in ballots in every state this election year, and half of everyone else trembles at the thought of President Trump.
Snail mail indeed.
By Bloomberg Opinion
This is an open letter to the family member(s) of Charles Henry Sinz who was/were faithful to write the open letter to President Trump for publication in the July 13, 2020, Butler Eagle-Letter to the...
This week, 75 years ago, the United States military dropped two atomic bombs on the island Empire of Japan, as it was known then, three days apart.
There’s an old Yiddish expression: “Man plans and God laughs.”
The attorney general of New York has sued to seek the dissolution of the National Rifle Association, alleging fraud and abuse in the way the NRA’s chief executive and other officials ran the...
What is going to happen next flu season? Is the governor going to shut down our Main Street and our churches over a few dozen flu cases per week in our suburban and rural counties again next flu...
Mr. Nathaniel Pettit, in a recent letter to the editor, accused us horrible Republicans of defacing or stealing Democrat political signs.
For a Burger King employee in Butler Township, a video that went viral this week could possibly be seen as a blessing and a curse.
There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places.
Ask yourself this question: How did we get here? How did the richest nation in the world, with the most expensive and most technically advanced health care system in the world, completely fail to...
On July 14, my husband of 53 years passed away after fighting a long battle with Lewy body dementia.
