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Just two weeks ago, we wrote on this page that county seniors were struggling amid a lack of food sources in the wake of several grocery store closures during the past year.
It’s nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping from their lips.
As the 2020 election ramps up, student loan debt has emerged as a hot-button issue on the campaign trail, with several presidential hopefuls releasing plans to solve what they are calling a...
It’s kind of interesting that the central goal of Democrats in the wild-and-wooly impeachment hearings is to use their misapplied, blistering power to ruin the re-election chances of Republican...
For a nation forged in bloody revolution against an unjust monarchy, America sure loves the pomp and circumstance of ancient royalty.
About 178,000 people are on probation in our state. Criminal justice reform advocates and a growing number of lawmakers argue that number is too many.
“It's going to be like breaking up with everyone you know.”
Butler City Council made a decision this week that could make residents breathe a little more easily — literally.
Iowa gave Barack Obama a resounding 9.5-point victory over John McCain in 2008. Four years later, Obama’s margin shrunk to 5.8 points against Mitt Romney. But in 2016, something odd happened.
The Pennsylvania House passed a package of bills addressing human trafficking Wednesday.
Every hostile nickname that Mitch McConnell gets is further confirmation of his effectiveness.
The end of any era — like the demise of the steam locomotive, the steel industry, the family farm and the local general store — creates an adverse consequence.
I recently read the op-ed piece “Should Obama have been Impeached,” by one Jay Ambrose from the Tribune New Service.
Every January, synagogues across the country hold a special service or ceremony in memory of Martin Luther King Jr.
The death early this year of an emergency responder at the scene of an accident has driven home two points: Changes in the law need to be made to protect those responding to an accident, and drivers...
I am writing to thank Butler residents for sharing the true meaning of Christmas with children in need this past holiday season.
A story in the Eagle’s Education for the Future special section Tuesday highlights an urgent need for schools in Butler County and across the state: more social workers.
Did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi overplay her hand by delaying the articles of impeachment for a month before submitting them to the Senate on Thursday?
Pillar: a vertical structure used as a support to hold something up in a reliable and essential fashion.
Dale Pinkerton has many accolades to his name — former county commissioner, Rotarian, Shriner.
Criminal activity imposes huge costs on black residents in low-income neighborhoods of cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia and many others.
When the President of the United States takes the time from running the most powerful country in the world to ridicule, demean a minor child on Twitter — there is something seriously wrong with...
I decided at age 85 to make arrangements for my burial in Concord Church Cemetery.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream for this nation 57 years ago that all of us could stand to remember today.
So here we were, smack in the middle of swirling crises, at home and half a world away, as we tuned in Tuesday night to catch six Democratic presidential hopefuls clashing in their last debate before...
