WASHINGTON — Connoisseurs of democratic decadence can savor a variety of contemporary dystopias. Because familiarity breeds banality, Greece has become a boring horror. ...
Last-minute scrambling in the U.S. Senate produced a deal that averted the worst consequences of hitting the fiscal cliff. But the agreement reached late Monday night fe...
WASHINGTON — The “fiscal cliff” is a massive failure of presidential leadership. The tedious and technical negotiations are but a subplot in a larger drama. Government c...
The tumultuous year experienced by Butler County government in 2012 no doubt was unlike any that the commissioners office ever experienced previously in the county’s his...
WASHINGTON — It is comforting to think of death as a passing rather than an end. In that vein, I prefer to think of Steve Jobs’ final words as editorial commentary: “Oh ...
WASHINGTON — While accusing the Supreme Court’s conservative justices of “disdain for democracy,” Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain. The Sta...
The new contract covering the Butler Police Department’s 22 officers, including the chief, acknowledges the city’s financial plight.
Looking ahead to the new year, it’s ...
WASHINGTON — Anyone who writes a column always has second thoughts: columns you wrote but wish you hadn’t; things you said that you might now modify or things you wish y...
Cranberry Township, buoyed by its location and governed in recent decades by boards of supervisors bent on progress, not on standing still, has recorded another accompli...
WASHINGTON — At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of “th...
