For a long time, the city of Butler has needed new ideas for trying to attract businesses.
The city’s 7-mill business privilege tax on gross receipts, the highest in the...
Apparently, Alabama lawmakers felt they hadn’t gone far enough last year when they enacted the most draconian immigration law in the nation, which, among other things, r...
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Cass - Unless you are a "progressive", in other words, a proponent that government is the answer to the human condition and should control all aspe...
WASHINGTON -- The Great Jobs Argument — which will be with us until the election — has an interesting and largely ignored subplot. It’s about confidence: Which candidate...
The Butler School Board is correct in wanting to address district capital projects needs and recognizing the advantages of refinancing a bond issue to achieve its object...
Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are...
Last year’s tussle over increasing the federal debt limit showed Congress at its worst, paralyzed by dueling ideologies and incapable of striking a grand bargain. The ev...
The West does not have its act together.
Europe and the United States are both in prolonged, multiyear economic slumps. On both continents, the politics are becoming exp...
Six months ago, the Food and Drug Administration met the deadline set by Congress to complete a set of proposed rules for implementing the landmark Food Safety Moderniza...
I’m blessed with healthy kids, so whenever my wife wants to take them to the doctor, I suggest we just mail a check to the pediatrician’s office and keep the boys at hom...
