The shadow of Watergate falls only lightly across the U.S. political landscape. Instead, the epic scandal is discernible mainly in the absence of the evils that engender...
WASHINGTON — Would Franklin Roosevelt approve of Social Security? The question seems absurd. After all, Social Security is considered the New Deal’s signature achievemen...
From what I have read over the past several months, Butler, PA is turning into Bell, CA. Our Commissioners make significantly higher salaries than surrounding counties,...
Again for the 2012-13 school year, Pennsylvania’s Taxpayer Relief Act won’t be providing the magnitude of relief and taxpayer control that was envisioned when the law wa...
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy — his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth — should no longer startle. It should, however, influe...
The Butler Eagle’s decision to step down as primary sponsor of the Spirit of Christmas parade must not doom the holiday event.
More than seven months out from what would...
WASHINGTON — We find ourselves as a nation in the midst of a profound, deeply corrosive crisis that we largely have been ignoring at our peril. The scope of the problem ...
The April 3 front-page photograph of workers cleaning the brick and granite facade of the Lafayette Apartments on South Main Street in Butler served as a reminder that s...
It is no simple task to balance environmental concerns about climate change and health problems from carbon emissions with the equally compelling reality that Americans ...
Yet another senseless killing spree shocked America this week, as word spread of Monday’s tragedy at Oikos University in Oakland, Calif. The pattern is all too familiar:...
