President Barack Obama told Iowa farmers to pressure Republicans — including the newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan — to pass a new...
WASHINGTON — Judging by the political reaction, you’d think that Paul Ryan’s budget takes a meat ax to Medicare and threatens economic havoc for the elderly. Just the op...
There were Butler School Board members and district residents on both sides of the issue of whether the Japanese language program should be ended.
On Monday, the board r...
The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to reaffirm the right of public universities — particularly competitive and prestigious ones — to consider race as a...
WASHINGTON — Vice presidential picks always are judged by their effect on the coming election. They rarely have any.
This time could be different. The Democrats’ Medisca...
The Corbett administration has exercised the poor-mouth option in regard to finding money for the repair of Glade Run Lake.
In response, the Glade Run Lake Conservancy h...
Because the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is a part of the federal bureaucracy, it can make even groundbreaking news seem mundane.
Take this understated sentence in...
Do you automatically assume that a headache is a brain tumor? Do you worry that a minor cut could lead to flesh-eating bacteria ravaging a limb and requiring massive sur...
August is a great month for celebrating human stupidity.
On Aug. 6, 1945, we all but disappeared Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, and then did it again, three days l...
One of the most important messages delivered at Friday’s meeting about a new VA Butler Healthcare health care center is that the public is interested and wants to be kep...
