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Require tax-exempts to pay municipal fee in lieu of taxes

Pennsylvania lawmakers have the power to help financially beleaguered cities in the commonwealth — including Butler — effect a turnaround in their worsening financial ci...

September 01, 2010 Our Opinion

Civility

A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still. Is it too difficult to present your case simply in facts and information? Must there always be disrespec...

September 01, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Liz

Well Liz SB could have averted a community being ripped apart by their walk out. As a parent of a senior who only received 176 days of instruction (2 on saturdays that I...

September 01, 2010 Letters to the Editor

OTHER VOICES

For years, guitarist Pete Townshend has talked about noise-induced hearing loss. Was anybody listening? The legendary Who frontman believes his partial deafness, and tin...

September 01, 2010 Other Voices

oe

Joe, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2008/03/tax-cuts-not-the-clinton-tax-hike-produced-the-1990s-boom Take a look at this link and you'll find a much smarter p...

August 31, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Cass

Cass - From Wikipedia - "Journalism is the investigation and reporting of events, issues, and trends to a broad audience. Although there is much variation within journal...

August 31, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Wendy

Tell me Wendy what could the board have averted if they would have settled with the faculty? Sad but South Butler was and is suffering the ramifications of the board's l...

August 31, 2010 Letters to the Editor

Publication of teacher ratings begins important discussion

Tremors erupted in Southern California a few weeks ago. The epicenter of the shake-up is in Los Angeles, but the tremors are being felt around the country. Rather than t...

August 31, 2010 Our Opinion

Finding a way to fix federal pay, benefits

Government jobs have long enjoyed a reputation for being plum positions. But it took Robert Rizzo to really make the case. Rizzo is the man who became famous last month ...

August 31, 2010 Other Voices

Fred

Fred, how is the economy of Arizona doing these days considering the Republicans are in charge of that state? Doesn't Arizona have an unemployment rate higher than the ...

August 30, 2010 Letters to the Editor

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