Butler Memorial Hospital’s time of uncertainty — and fears about the hospital’s financial future — ended several years ago with the decision to construct its new patient...
Lawmakers in Washington often act as if America’s health care crisis ended with the passage of the health care reform law known as the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare....
On the same day 27 women and children were massacred in Newtown, Conn., a man stabbed 22 children at a school in China. The Chinese children all survived.
So much for th...
The city of Pittsburgh and its area businesses will be big losers because of the Steelers’ inability to make the playoffs and have home-field advantage during postseason...
One of the most popular benefits of Medicare is the Part D prescription drug program, which enables seniors and the disabled to buy taxpayer-subsidized coverage for many...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
WASHINGTON — Let’s not smother the shale-gas boom. It is the crown jewel of the disappointing economic recovery. Why tamper with success? Yet, there are those who argue ...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 115 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
After Superstorm Sandy and the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary, there’s no denying it’s been a heartbreaking and fatiguing few months. The suffering we’ve either seen...
First, critics went after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and unfairly short-circuited her candidacy to be secretary of state. Now, a similar campaign is being waged against ...
