With Thursday’s announcement that Shell Oil Co. has chosen a Beaver County site for a chemical “cracker” plant, the temptation to slip into hyperbole is hard to resist.
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Soaring gasoline prices have dragged down President Barack Obama’s poll ratings, and now his energy secretary says he no longer wants prices to reach the even-higher Eur...
Although details are yet to be worked out, it was encouraging to learn Monday that $600,000 has been pledged to help revitalization of Butler’s downtown business distric...
PHOENIX — Sal DiCiccio says he’s sorry. It is, he says, no excuse that the complex labor contracts that he, as a member of the city council, voted to ratify for city emp...
Tough decisions await the Mars School District as it works to resolve a projected $2.5 million 2012-13 budget deficit. But the district would be facing a significantly l...
The Pentagon is under orders from Congress to cut about $1 trillion in spending, yet its proposal for two new rounds of base closings got a cold reception on Capitol Hil...
There wasn’t much doubt about the value of colonoscopies, the rather invasive screening tests for colorectal cancer. Now there should be none.
These screenings, unpleasa...
The Internal Revenue Service, tossing aside the principle of “let the buyer beware,” is drawing up regulations establishing licensing requirements for hundreds of thousa...
There’s a seeming paradox in the way Americans view the health care law that President Barack Obama and the Democrats passed two years ago this month.
Most people tell p...
The West must no longer tolerate the wanton slaughter occurring in Syria under dictator Bashar Assad. His consistent targeting of noncombatants and Arab Spring protester...
