For the last seven years, I worked on the challenge of global warming. The signs — both visible, such as the pace of natural disasters and sea-level rise, and invisible,...
Wage-earning, tax-paying Americans ought to be outraged by stealth Republican efforts to frustrate collection of hundreds of billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.
The Int...
Act 47, Pennsylvania’s financially distressed cities law, has been rejected up to now by Butler city officials, despite the city’s worsening money situation and the poss...
This year’s contract talks with employees might be the most important in Butler’s history.
With the city facing the possibility of bankruptcy in two or three years, what...
The Florida jurors who acquitted Casey Anthony of murdering her 2-year-old daughter didn’t spend a lot of time agonizing over their verdict. After listening to five week...
President Barack Obama says it’s time to “get it done.” Unfortunately, his remarks last week did little to encourage a deal raising the debt ceiling and cutting the defi...
In 2008, as financial crisis threatened the U.S. banking system, President George W. Bush asked Congress to approve an emergency bailout. Leaders of both parties blessed...
The Supreme Court dismayed parents across America in striking down California’s ban on sales of ultra-violent video games to minors.
Many hail the 7-2 ruling as a victor...
The outrage over the latest humiliating airport security pat-down incident is understandable, but don’t blame the screeners who searched an elderly woman.
The Transporta...
