The dire warnings over a failure by Congress to raise the debt ceiling by the Aug. 2 deadline cannot be ignored any longer. Anti-tax and smaller-government idealogues wi...
The fight over deficit reduction has revealed the weakness of Republican leaders in Congress, who appear incapable of controlling the tea-drinking monster they helped cr...
If there are no legal impediments, the Butler Area Sewer Authority should follow through with its proposal for an amnesty program to try to collect nearly $900,000 in de...
WASHINGTON — President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, “If not now, when?”
How about last December, when ...
Republican leaders blinked this week in their standoff with President Obama over raising the nation’s debt ceiling. That means we’re unlikely to face a financial crisis ...
For more than two years, President Barack Obama has talked tough about the need to bolster fuel economy standards to reduce pollution and dependence on foreign oil.
Yet ...
Remembering that we all live downwind from something, it was encouraging to learn last week that the federal Environmental Protection Agency is issuing new pollution sta...
Everyone knows you can train a dog by rewarding the behavior you want Rover to repeat. But Barack Obama always has been ambitious, so he trains Republicans. The behavior...
Since no one can predict what issues might come before the Butler County Board of Commissioners during the remainder of 2011, the interim commissioner that President Jud...
For all the homage paid to Grover Norquist in Washington, you’d think we’d elected him to some high office.
Deficit hawk Alan Simpson says he’s one of the biggest obstac...
