In a rare and heartening example of bipartisanship, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have united around a proposal for a major reform of federal criminal sentenci...
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Warm cheers to the organizers of Bundle Up Butler. The annual coat drive resulted in the distribution of more than 600 children’s winter coats on Tuesd...
Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed a list of tough new gun control measures this week, seeking to channel public outrage after yet another mass murder on a school campus. H...
It’s too early to tell whether Congress should ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership treaty that the Obama administration negotiated with 11 countries on both sides of th...
The old expression about public policy sometimes acting like a pendulum — swinging one way, then back the other way — comes to mind when reading about a plan by federal ...
A few hours before Wednesday’s vote on Gov. Tom Wolf’s scaled-down package of tax increases, one of the governor’s staunchest allies made a compelling statement.
“The vo...
You’d think Secret Service Director Joseph Clancy would remember something as outrageous as dozens of agents circulating the private personnel records of a congressman w...
WASHINGTON — In a fascinating recent talk, White House chief economist Jason Furman took a crack at solving a great puzzle of the lackluster recovery: weak business inve...
Russia’s airstrikes against Syrian rebels last week came as a surprise to many Americans — including, it seems, many in the Obama administration. They shouldn’t have.
Ru...
It seems like a long, winding road from glossy television commercials hawking designer pharmaceuticals to the latest round of heroin overdoses in Butler County. It’s not...
