A sign at the southern end of the new Main Street Viaduct touts Butler as a great place to live, and most people who reside here would agree.
Coming across the bridge in...
Whether or not Republicans regret that Sen. Arlen Specter quit the party, his departure underscored an undeniable problem for the GOP: It's shrinking.
In Pennsylvania, m...
It's clear enough what President Barack Obama hopes will happen now that Chrysler has asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to midwife the company's rebirth as Fiat's robust N...
I agree, the construction work is necessary but mostly when we drive past there is rarely anything going on and it's taking forever! It's very frustrating having to dri...
Thursday's fatal accident on Route 422 in Armstrong County, a short distance from Butler County, is a tragic reminder of the dangers that exist in a construction zone or...
"Shouting is not a substitute for thinking and reason is not the subversion but the salvation of freedom."
— Adlai Stevenson
Imagine if cable news and talk radio wer...
"In the long run, we're all dead." — John Maynard Keynes
The World Health Organization warned Wednesday that a swine flu pandemic is likely imminent. "It's really all of...
May 04, 2009 Other Voices
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What about this for a "Downtown Plan". Have the Mayor or some of the more influential leaders in Butler, dial up Wal-Mart. Propose to put a Wal-Mart...
WASHINGTON — Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have c...
"Don't you dare" is probably the phrase most Americans, as well as most people in the Obama administration, were thinking last week when news broke that Citigroup, the W...
