Drivers traveling Route 8 south of Butler have gotten used to seeing the long empty former car dealership buildings on the east side of the highway in Penn Township. Ove...
If you’re thinking that last week’s tragedy in Newtown, Conn., makes it likely that Congress will soon pass stricter federal gun laws, remember this: People thought the ...
Not much is heard these days about the bailout of American International Group. We’re more likely to see stories about bailout recipients with continuing problems, such ...
Overshadowed by the tragic news from the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and the ups and downs of “fiscal cliff” negotiations in Washington, a little- noticed news ...
After a few weeks of posturing, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, finally agreed to increase tax rates on the highest-income Americans. Although his offer stopped a...
WASHINGTON — It is a conundrum of wordsmiths that sometimes events are so horrible that words escape us. Bereft of the tools of our trade, we are left with what is perha...
While everyone is talking about tax rates, tax increases and tax fairness, let’s not lose sight of one of the biggest untaxed hoards of money on this globe: the money hi...
As the nation reels from the horror of Friday’s shootings in a Connecticut elementary school, where a gunman so numb to human sensibility that he could casually snuff ou...
Reaction to the massacre at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday could be a tipping point for America, including political leaders in Washington...
Butler County school districts’ response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in Connecticut was predictable, but not an overreaction.
Every school district — ind...