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In civics class I was taught Congress had the “power of the purse.
I read with great interest the letter from Denny Offstein in the Feb. 8, Butler Eagle. The writer makes some excellent points and I commend him for his concern for the motoring public.
Oh hi there, fellow New Yorker picking through the rubble after the collapse of a deal that would’ve brought up to 40,000 good jobs and solidified the city’s tech-industry leadership for...
At every rally, during every speech, during many cabinet meetings and often on Twitter, President Donald Trump asserts a fact as evidence of the nation’s strong economy: Unemployment rates for...
Does anyone remember the Chrysler K-car? Not the K-cup. The K-car.
I am rereading “The Affluent Society” with pleasure and profit.
Many of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and would-be contenders have taken thoughtful and admirable positions on various issues over the years, eschewing blind partisanship and...
Few places in the United States have been as hard hit by the opioid crisis as Philadelphia, where about 1,150 people died from overdoses last year.
More than 240,000 students in Pennsylvania attend school districts that lack updated policies on how to report child abuse, according to state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale.
Abraham Lincoln, who was born 210 years ago this month, was president during an era even more rancorous and polarized than our own.
This week, Butler County’s elections bureau weighed its options on the type of new system it has been mandated to adopt to replace aging voting machines.
Americans expect a lot from farmers and ranchers: fresh, unblemished fruits and vegetables, locally grown and responsibly harvested.
As expected, President Donald Trump announced that he’s declaring a national emergency so he can transfer money not appropriated by Congress to build a wall along the Mexico border.
In recent weeks, attention has focused on two freshman Democratic members of Congress, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, both of whom are Muslim and have made critical statements about Israel and its...
Today’s editorial does not carry a complicated message. It’s not a brain-teaser or an intellectual trailblazer.
The day has arrived in the Democratic Party when Sherrod Brown is a kind of moderate.
The Dallas Morning News will stop running a cartoonist who embedded an insulting expletive toward President Donald Trump in an editorial cartoon that appeared in hundreds of newspapers last weekend. .
The Green New Deal has drawn a lot of criticism — and rightly so.
The latest political controversy involves Rep. Ilhan Omar tweeting and insinuating that American political support for Israel is driven by Jewish money and lobbying.
This week, the Mars School District launched a new security system that will require adults visiting all buildings within the district to show identification that would be checked against a sex...
Ten states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Twenty-two other states including Pennsylvania, along with U.S.
Properly slammed by House leaders of both parties for trafficking in the most insidious stereotypes, freshman Rep.
Black women, it’s time to stop demonizing other black women who call out black men for sexual assault.
The recent enactment a state law makes our highways safer by increasing penalties against individuals who drive under the influence of alcohol.
There likely won’t be any blockbuster revelations from the long-overdue Department of Justice investigation into former South Florida federal prosecutor Alex Acosta’s misbegotten deal...
