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County salary board's 20% raise approval irresponsible

Supervisors and department heads are paid more because they are responsible for overseeing other workers and for troubleshooting, and their work often extends well beyon...

December 12, 2011 Our Opinion

Cass/payroll tax cut

Your letter of Dec. 9th contains several half-truths regarding the payroll tax cuts. Here is the major points that the Republicans have proposed: (1)Speed construction o...

December 12, 2011 Letters to the Editor

OTHER VOICES

The U.S. Postal Service could hardly have come up with a worse solution to its financial problems than its proposal to slow first-class delivery to the point of irreleva...

December 12, 2011 Other Voices

Newt crush and the GOP's death wish

WASHINGTON — “Anybody but Mitt” has become a familiar mantra throughout the Republican primary campaign. It is also weird and self-defeating. Republicans apparently want...

December 12, 2011 Other Voices

Mihalik, Ziegler

Beth Mihalik and Jamie Ziegler, both of Wexford, were united in marriage June 4 at Saint Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh. The Rev. Matthew McClain officiated. A reception f...

December 10, 2011 Letters to the Editor

OTHER VOICES

President Barack Obama’s foray into Kansas isn’t likely to pick up electoral votes in that reddest of states. But his speech Tuesday at Osawatomie High School was good p...

December 10, 2011 Other Voices

Obama's campaign for class resentment

WASHINGTON — In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn’t alleviated the nation’s economic pain, he’d be a “one-term propo...

December 10, 2011 Other Voices

Cheers & Jeers . . .

The city of Butler provides services to nonprofits as well as to properties on the real estate tax rolls. However, nonprofits, which occupy about 35 percent of the prope...

December 10, 2011 Our Opinion

sneaking out of town

The current debate about the payroll tax cut is showing the Republicans’ true colors. With Congress set to go out of session in a matter of days, GOP Leadership is going...

December 09, 2011 Letters to the Editor

MSHA needs more power to deal with unsafe mines

Relatives of the 29 miners killed in the April 5, 2010, explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia have every right to be angry that no criminal charges wil...

December 09, 2011 Our Opinion

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