With so much bad news in the world today, it's refreshing to receive some good news once in a while.
That happened in the Focus section of Thursday's Butler Eagle, whose...
WASHINGTON — What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that...
With yesterday's news that Connecticut had resolved its budget crisis, Pennsylvania remains the only state in the nation without a spending plan in place.
The difficulti...
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan was in St. Louis last week with Randi Weingarten, president of American Federation of Teachers, to visit city public schools. At a j...
For the Butler County Development Corporation, it's an uncomfortable situation that one of its own — a member of the board — is seriously delinquent on a $50,000 loan th...
Watching President Obama's poll numbers slide in recent weeks takes me back to the worst moments of the presidential campaign. I'm not thinking of Obama's presidential c...
Politicians learned long ago that one of the privileges of power is rigging the system to help your party and hurt the other. What they never seem to learn is how easily...
WASHINGTON — "Yesterday," reads the e-mail from Allen, a Marine in Afghanistan, "I gave blood because a Marine, while out on patrol, stepped on a (mine's) pressure plate...
The president of the United States was determined: Universal health care was something Americans should expect, and he would deliver it. He argued forcefully for an empl...
There should be broad public support for efforts in Congress to update rules related to pilot fatigue. The issue drew national attention when Continental Flight 3407 cra...
