With the final headlong withdrawal this month of U.S. troops from Iraq, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise to end the war. But was the nearly nine-year mission...
I've been reading the Butler Eagle Web letters on-line for years and I must say Cass's latest letter is the only one I agree with. Thanks Cass, from a very conservative...
With Greater Pittsburgh International Airport so close to Butler County, many people here do not reflect on the economic importance of the Butler County Airport.
But the...
“Ask Osama bin Laden ... whether I engage in appeasement.”
— Barack Obama, Dec. 8, 2011
WASHINGTON — Fair enough. Barack Obama didn’t appease Osama bin Laden. He kil...
As 2011 draws to a close, how fitting that Congress is fighting over money — again. Late Wednesday, a push to extend a payroll-tax break and unemployment benefits stood ...
WASHINGTON — In 1927, seven years before the board game was created, Washington state decided to play monopoly. It gave a private interest the exclusive right to operate...
The Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's new effort to help state residents live up to their 6 percent use-tax obligation is laudable.
However, it's reasonable to be ske...
Republican lawmakers in Harrisburg have finally released their redrawn state legislative districts and congressional districts. The once-a-decade process of redistrictin...
I keep asking myself why our country is so divided. Why our dialogue on the critical problems that threaten us is so shrill, so brittle and so unproductive. Why we take ...
Can you safely talk on a cellphone — or for that matter, check your email or scroll through Google Maps — while driving? Well, of course you can. But those other folks w...
