Last Wednesday’s Butler County commissioners meeting provided the good news that a Butler certified public accountant had made substantial progress in resolving the fina...
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is apparently trying to burnish his credentials in the race for the GOP presidential nomination by encouraging states to default on th...
Cass, Finland is widely regarded as having the best education system in the world and guess what? Their teachers are highly paid, highly respected, and almost entirely ...
WASHINGTON — Disregard Barack Obama’s rhetorical cotton candy about aspiring to be transformative. He is just another practitioner of reactionary liberalism and champion...
West Penn Allegheny Health System's proposal for a medical school should be embraced throughout Western Pennsylvania.
The proposal is encouraging because of the potentia...
The one overriding reality surrounding Butler’s proposed decorative lighting project is that the state and federal governments are not awash in money.
Instead, the two h...
“Since 1995 the average mathematics score for fourth-graders jumped 11 points. At this rate we catch up with Singapore in a little over 80 years . . . assuming they ...
On Jan. 13, Renier Vicente Rodriguez Fleitas was sentenced to three years in federal prison for conspiring to bilk Medicare through his Hialeah, Fla., pharmacy. In his p...
If every wish ever uttered by a president in the State of the Union address had been granted, we’d be living in a much different America.
Thanks to Richard Nixon, we wou...
It’s been a long time since Connoquenessing Township government has operated without friction. During at least part of that time, it also has operated outside the scope ...
