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Tougher penalties for DUI reflect severity of offense

For every bit of good news, there’s often bad news to accompany it.

4/25/2019 Our Opinion 0 comments

Mars School District faces watershed election in May

Public service is often a thankless job.

4/24/2019 Our Opinion 0 comments

Distracted driving: Risky, rude, hazardous and illegal

While drunk drivers are still the most dangerous category of people on the road — in 2017, a total of 293 people died during incidents that involved drinking and driving — people focusing...

4/23/2019 Our Opinion 0 comments

Don’t call it a tax

I do appreciate the Butler Eagle printing my letter to the editor (“Pushing a carbon tax,” April 23, page 4).

4/25/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Immunize your kids

World Immunization Week is April 24-30. The goal is to remind people not to become complacent about immunizing children against diseases that some think have been eliminated.

4/25/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

‘Nyet’ to Clinton

Many Politicians are saying that Russians tried to sway the presidential election of 2016. For myself, one word totally influenced my choosing the Republican candidate — Benghazi.

4/25/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Kudos to the author of the April 19 AP article (“U.S. energy use surges despite climate threat,” Page 7)for reminding us that we’re running out of time to stave off the harshest effects of climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels.

4/23/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The deciding vote is in. What today is known as Route 228 will be the Adams Township Main Street. County Commissioner Kim Geyer revealed in the April 4 Butler Eagle (“Rte.

4/22/2019 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Beto O’Rourke’s uncharitable giving

FORT WORTH, Texas — Presidential hopeful Robert “Beto” O’Rourke released 10 years of tax returns recently. Good for him. It’s more than the sitting president has seen fit to do. But the compliments end there.

4/25/2019 Other Voices 0 comments

The true Elizabeth Warren threat

While most other presidential candidates of the Democratic kind are tiptoeing around the question of impeachment proceedings against you know who, Sen. Elizabeth Warren says he is definitely guilty of high crimes, including collusion with the Russians or something an awful lot like it.

4/25/2019 Jay Ambrose 0 comments

In an age of Amazon Prime, could Sears ever rise again?

Years after Sears lost luster as a shopping destination, consumers of a certain age still get a faraway look in their eyes when they think about the company’s storied brands: DieHard batteries, Kenmore appliances and Toughskins children’s jeans, among them.

4/24/2019 Other Voices 0 comments

Kavanaugh and GMU snowflakes

George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School hired Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh to co-teach a course this summer called Creation of the Constitution. The course will be held 3,668 miles away, in Runnymede, England, where the Magna Carta was sealed 800 years ago.