It looks like the on-again-off-again, move-the-site plan to build a new VA health care facility in Butler is not the only construction headache for the Department of Vet...
My wife leaves for work earlier than I do, giving her first choice of which car to drive. She has a longer drive than my three-minute jaunt to the train station, so I do...
If you went to the polls in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary elections and cast votes for appellate court judges — congratulations. You’re part of a small minority of vote...
There’s a parable from India about a group of blind men trying to describe an elephant by touch: the task is too big until they cooperate and share the information at th...
U.S. presidential campaigns usually aren’t sunk by major policy mistakes or the attacks of an opponent. They result from self-inflicted, unforced errors.
This was appare...
The process for approving new drugs in the U.S. takes a long time and costs a lot of money. But in trying to speed things up too much, Congress runs the risk of allowing...
Obama administration critics often charge that the president has no strategy in the war against Islamic State, but that’s not true.
Eight months ago, after Islamic State...
Last week, five big Wall Street banks agreed to pay billions of dollars in fines to settle charges that they manipulated foreign-exchange markets. In the illegal scheme,...
Charity Navigator should make this an informal rule: If your charity is employing Sidney Blumenthal, it automatically goes on the watch list.
The ethical controversies a...
Congratulations and best wishes to the class of 2015, particularly to graduates from our local institutions: Butler County Community College, Slippery Rock University an...