For six years, the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, which audits U.S. spending in the war-ravaged country, has submitted quarterly...
A United States senator is facing ridicule after he suggested that restaurants should not have to make their employees wash their hands after toilet visits.
But in their...
When one party owns the White House and the other holds Congress, the president’s annual budget is a strange, almost fictional document. It’s not a draft from which the ...
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler finally confirmed Wednesday his proposal to protect high-speed Internet service for all Americans. He will ask the...
Same old, same old. Last year, we had a bad January, and we followed it up with another one this year.
Last year, we came storming back to finish nicely, so we’ll just h...
WASHINGTON — Flashback: Galileo is sitting under house arrest pondering the unyielding ignorance of The Church for refusing to consider his proposition that the Earth ci...
Butler residents got some good news last week — tax revenues are up and the city has added about $1 million in revenue over the past three years without raising taxes. T...
WASHINGTON — A presidential budget is more than an expression of policy. It’s also an exercise in political brand management. It aims to project the president and his ad...
Engrained in our history, it could be argued that Western Pennsylvanians take pride in doing things “the way they have always been done.”
I fondly recall a conversation ...
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama touted his Ukraine strategy as a demonstration of “the power of American strength and diplomacy.”
Word of this ...
