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Trump plan hurts America

Between 1981 and 1988, President Ronald Reagan, a Republican, incrementally reduced taxes for America’s rich from 70% to 28%, as America shifted into deficit spending. At...

September 28, 2024 Letters to the Editor

State was right to raise historical society grants

In the Friday, Sept. 27, edition of the Butler Eagle we learned that the Butler County Historical Society got a substantial increase in state funding. The Pennsylvania Hi...

September 28, 2024 Our Opinion

Shelter’s lawsuit shines a light on the obligations of pet ownership

Shelter Animals Count, a centralized, standardized database for animal shelter statistics across the U.S., reports 6.3 million companion animals in the U.S. are put in sh...

September 27, 2024 Our Opinion

Do they even teach civics anymore?

We have all seen the ubiquitous “man on the street” interviews where young people struggle to identify the branches of government or their elected representatives. And th...

September 27, 2024 Other Voices

We should aim to be boring, at least when it comes to politics

American politics is anything but boring. That’s not a good thing. A stable, even dull political order is a worthy goal. Just as the Founders ditched a political order th...

September 26, 2024 Other Voices

Donor’s gift to education to live on

Earlier this month, the Eagle ran a story on a $75,000 donation Dan and Cindy Musko made to the Golden Tornado Scholastic Foundation. Today, we learned that Dan Musko has...

September 26, 2024 Our Opinion

Anti-immigrant lies won’t save Charleroi, but immigrants might

It was always a given that dehumanizing rhetoric around immigration would intensify as the presidential election approached. Unfortunately, in the turn to dangerous lies ...

September 25, 2024 Other Voices

Secret Service failures at Trump rally were foreseeable, preventable

As we learned in the Tuesday, Sept. 24, edition of the Butler Eagle, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-16th, said the Secret Service was “casual” in preparation for former Presiden...

September 25, 2024 Our Opinion

Eagle deeply saddened at death of brave young man

No one could explain why 9-year-old Aiden Bartley contracted a disease only found in adults. That’s why pediatric oncologists across the U.S. didn’t have a definitive tre...

September 24, 2024 Our Opinion

Breaking our plastics habit is easier said than done

Could our unshakable addiction to plastics be broken? That’s certainly the hope of activists. The U.S. — birthplace of the modern polymers industry, and the biggest produ...

September 23, 2024 Other Voices

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