For all of our sophisticated medical care, Americans can expect shorter lives and more health troubles than the people of other well-off nations, according to a new repo...
More than seven years after state lawmakers angered voters and taxpayers with their notorious 2 a.m. pay-raise vote in Harrisburg, efforts to reform how the state Legisl...
The fake Barack H. Obama voter-registration incident here in Butler County will provide an opportunity for the courts to deliver a stern message about the seriousness of...
Just in time for the third anniversary of Haiti’s earthquake on Jan. 12, 2010, Canada’s principal foreign aid minister, Julian Fantino, delivered a wake-up call to that ...
After the Newtown massacre, a friend asked me if I kept a gun in my house. No, I do not, for several reasons. The first is personal experience.
The last time I had a gun...
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed the most sweeping changes in food-safety rules in decades. The changes being made under the Food Safety Modernization Act, ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, with its long history of patronage jobs, inefficiency and wasteful spending, no doubt prefers to remain below the radar. But thanks...
“I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the...
Butler Township has been fortunate to have had stability in its police department for the past 26 years. In Chief Gary Garman, the department has had a leader with the t...
Fans can’t be surprised that home run king Barry Bonds, ace pitcher Roger Clemens and slugger Sammy Sosa were not elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame this year...
