The melody of human progress up to the present has played on two grand instruments: science and the humanities. But for the last few hundred years, these instruments have...
The world’s eyes were on Butler County this weekend.
First in anticipation as former President Donald Trump chose our community to make a rally appearance just before his...
The presence of the 2 million or so fans who will travel from abroad to attend the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be felt in the city’s stadiums. Unfortunately, it will al...
The crowd at the ribbon cutting for Ellen’s House, a new sober living house for women, including those with children, heard how rare such facilities are.
As we learned in...
I live in the city of Butler near Emily Brittain School. There is a vacant house on a piece of property adjacent to my home. I know there is a city ordinance regarding hi...
The author Stefan Zweig once wrote that European politics has for centuries been a struggle between two schools of leadership: The common good espoused by humanist Erasmu...
“Incentives matter” is the most central lesson of economics. And they matter no matter what kind of social activity you examine or which level of the economy you study.
E...
In a quick search on the benefits of summer theater camps, the terms “empathy,” “team work,” “self esteem” and “encouragement” pop up again and again.
As the Summer Dram...
Even as Americans are inundated by news about the seemingly never-ending contest between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, several other elections occurred last week.
In the Un...
An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At le...
