A tight state budget has state lawmakers contemplating funding reductions that will cause hardships for people in education and those needing various social and human se...
Choosing a worthy president and commander in chief is not a casual task for voters.
Those laboring to compare and contrast President Obama and Mitt Romney on war and for...
It’s hard to dispute the Congressional Budget Office warning that eliminating the Bush tax cuts at year’s end and making the spending cuts in last year’s deficit package...
There’s little argument that the $800 billion-plus stimulus bill that was President Barack Obama’s first “accomplishment” soon became one of his biggest political liabil...
Just a few weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings in March on the constitutionality of several parts of the Affordable Care Act — a.k.a. Obamacare — an overwhelm...
Butler County’s hotel/motel room tax generates $1 million annually for the county’s tourism promotion efforts. That total will increase with new facilities currently und...
A tariff is always a double-edged weapon in international trade. Countries apply them to protect domestic producers but risk retaliation and penalize their own consumers...
There was grim news last week from the eminent diagnosticians at the Congressional Budget Office. Basically, we’re about to undergo the fiscal equivalent of a quadruple ...
In campaign advertisements and in speeches recently, President Barack Obama has criticized Republican Mitt Romney’s experience at Bain Capital, the private equity firm h...
The Institute of Medicine, the Centers for Disease Control and HBO just released a film, “Weight of the Nation,” warning us of the latest epidemic to sweep the country: ...
