At 12:06 a.m. on June 14, our youngest daughter, Meredith, texted me the following:
“Dad, I think I should be the first to tell you, Chuck Noll died.”
Meredith was born...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane still has plenty to say about her predecessor Tom Corbett’s handling of the Jerry Sandusky investigation, even as a report sh...
WASHINGTON — What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy’s abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a ...
Most working-age Americans have only heard about the days when America’s factories supplied goods to virtually the entire world.
Now China, India and other low-cost coun...
Trying to follow the turmoil in Iraq can be a bit like reading a Dostoevsky novel for the first time. The intricate plot can be confusing, you need a scorecard to keep t...
There’s no denying Kelly Automotive Park is a gem. The question is whether Butler’s municipal baseball park can turn a profit, or at least pay for itself.
That’s problem...
Is Congress ready to recognize that protecting reporters’ sources protects the public’s right to know?
Last year the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill affording...
Gov. Tom Corbett said recently that he’s willing to consider a natural gas extraction tax to help close the big shortfall in the state’s budget, but only in exchange for...
WASHINGTON — We’ve created a new economic aristocracy in America: CEOs. That’s a fair reading of recent corporate pay surveys. A study by compensation consultant Equilar...
For more than a year, Mideast analysts have warned about an al-Qaida offshoot that was creating a virtual state in eastern Syria and western Iraq, where it trained Europ...
