It's exciting and encouraging to see new commercial development proposed for the junction of New Castle Road and the Route 422 interchange in Butler Township.
Representa...
The United States and its allies are no longer losing the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and in the Middle East, that counts as progress.
In Syria, the...
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”
— Saint Augustine
Hearing that a high school student repeated her senior year, most people might susp...
In what may be a hopelessly quixotic effort, supporters of the federal Children’s Health Insurance Program are trying to persuade Congress to renew its funding almost a ...
Let’s try to simplify the Butler downtown parking debate by focusing on two questions: What’s it worth to you, and what are you willing to pay for it?
There’s a temptati...
When presidents become unpopular, they are no longer welcome on the campaign trail. They’re trapped in Washington, watching their party abandon them. It happened to Lynd...
If you’ve ever grumbled about paying for all those cable or satellite channels when you only watch a handful, last week brought good and potentially big news. Television...
The federal government’s five-star quality rating system for nursing homes has been scandalously easy for home operators to cheat by simply failing to report evidence of...
Butler Township Commissioners have borrowed a page from Slippery Rock Borough Council’s playbook — and not a very good page at that.
The township’s appointment of a gas...
WASHINGTON — The other day the receptionist at my local neighborhood hospital where I had gone for magnetic imagery handed me a sheet and asked me to sign, not an unusua...
