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Our student debt crisis is real — and growing

Helping students pay for higher education is big business in this country, but Pennsylvania takes the issue of student debt to new heights — or new depths, depending on your prespective.

8/14/2018 Our Opinion 0 comments

YWCA’s isn’t first or last personal care home to close

The news comes as a jolt.

8/13/2018 Our Opinion 0 comments

Regional vision

We applaud Butler County Commissioners�Leslie Osche,�Kim Geyer�and�Kevin Boozel�for their leadership in advancing�a measure to raise critically needed local investment in essential transportation and infrastructure projects in Butler County that will make our region more competitive.

8/11/2018 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

That settled it

Kudos to Wendy Graham for purchasing the park adjacent to the Green Acres neighborhood in Saxonburg. Her endeavor to preserve it as a park is commendable and worthy of support by those in the neighborhood and the greater Saxonburg community.

8/10/2018 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Not good enough

Where are the signs alerting drivers, especially tractor trailer drivers, that the best way to get to East Butler is closed? That would be the Bonniebrook Road bridge closure.

8/10/2018 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Bring in the clowns

Don’t we all have a need to relax and laugh?

8/10/2018 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

It’s still a tax

Unfortunately for the residents of Butler County, our commissioners voted to enact a $5 registration fee per vehicle.

8/9/2018 Letters to the Editor 0 comments

Other Voices

Whether or not U.S. Representative Chris Collins engaged in insider trading, as federal prosecutors allege, his indictment this week exposes what a poor job Congress has done to guard against such transgressions.

8/14/2018 Other Voices 0 comments

Big city lawlessness is thriving

During the weekend of Aug. 4-5 (and the preceding Friday night), 12 Chicagoans were shot dead, and 62 others were shot and wounded, the Chicago Tribune reported (https://tinyurl.com/yde7jb83).

8/14/2018 Other Voices 0 comments

Pope has it right; we should listen

I’m not a particular fan of the Catholic Church, but I like Pope Francis, who appears to be a simple, devout, humble man who has somehow found himself at the head of a vast, opulent patriarchy.

8/14/2018 Other Voices 0 comments

Did Rep. Chris Collins forget the Martha Stewart trial?

The day after Christmas 2001, Sam Waksal, the chief executive of ImClone Systems, began selling off shares in the company after learning that the Food and Drug Administration had rejected its application for a key cancer drug.