The Butler School District’s challenge in preparing a balanced 2012-13 budget would be markedly less daunting without the pension grab concocted by the General Assembly ...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 114 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
WASHINGTON — Now that Congress has finally reached a compromise on what must be one of the worst pieces of legislation in years — the temporary payroll tax holiday exten...
Who says bipartisanship is dead? In the giving spirit of the season, as the TV commercials remind us, House Republicans handed their Democratic rivals a priceless treasu...
These two exchange their personal views after apparently doing their homework. They do so amicably without insults and name calling as some others do.
On occasion one or...
The latest tax revenue figures from Harrisburg suggest that the state budget for next year will be as challenging — or more challenging — than last year. The first place...
Pennsylvania residents who thought that the state would not witness a repeat of this year’s money crunch in the 2012-13 fiscal year are no doubt dismayed to learn otherw...
