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Markets to set gasoline prices, not politics

WASHINGTON — Democrats, seething at the injustice of gasoline prices, have sprung to the aid of embattled motorists. So resolute are Democrats about defending the downtr...

May 18, 2007 Other Voices

James Matson's letter

kris08252001@yahoo.com I saw the reply to James Matson's letter and then read his letter. This is very scary to me in his thinking he has the right of way just because h...

May 17, 2007 Letters to the Editor

Big benefits: Public 'servants' become masters

As the presidential race gets under way, we're once again hearing the Democratic candidates ratchet up their rhetoric about the nation's great divisions between rich and...

May 17, 2007 Other Voices

Pull James Matson's License Immediately

Thanks, John, for so eloquently describing James Matson's intellectual deficiencies so that I didn't have to! Somebody get that idiot off the road, now!! ...

May 17, 2007 Letters to the Editor

No one should be saddened over voters' rejection of Act 1

Butler County voters, like most voters across the state, didn't allow themselves to be hoodwinked by the bogus Taxpayer Relief Act, more commonly known as Act 1. That wa...

May 17, 2007 Our Opinion

OTHER VOICES

There's an old maxim, often (but groundlessly) attributed to the Jesuits, that says, "Give me a child until he's 7, and I will give you the man." The idea is that what g...

May 17, 2007 Other Voices

Some things to think about on today's public policy issues

Last week, Japan pledged $100 million in grants to fight global climate change. The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the world's major leader in ...

May 16, 2007 Other Voices

re-sharon's post...death penalty

They all deserve the death penalty...the three that killed the Rizert boy and the girl from sarver...they all knew what they were doing and need to pay for it ...

May 16, 2007 Letters to the Editor

'Black boxes' in passenger cars could be safer-driving incentive

Knowing that a vehicle is equipped with a "black box" could be an incentive for safer driving by motorists who have a tendency to ignore speed limits or engage in other ...

May 16, 2007 Our Opinion

U.S. mining rules are outdated, destructive

It was not a particularly auspicious year. Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting, the inventor of the telegraph died, and the Great Boston Fire destroyed much of that...

May 16, 2007 Other Voices

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