Following the horrendous massacre of Oct. 7, Israelis are now united behind two immediate goals: Bringing back home their hostages and dealing Hamas a deadly blow. Howeve...
In 1897, 8-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial on Sept. 21, 1897. The...
Irving Berlin was a Jewish immigrant who loved America. As his 1938 song “God Bless America” suggests, he believed deeply in the nation's potential for goodness, unity an...
Since 1952, I have been affiliated as a player, coach, officer and coordinator of park projects at East Butler Baseball.
Our founding fathers began with 60 baseball playe...
I am an oddball. I like to work on Christmas.
I don’t know how it is now, but when I was younger and worked for newspapers, variously in Africa, Britain and the United St...
In the Wednesday, Dec. 20, edition of the Butler Eagle, we learned about a bill recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that would allow schools to once agai...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is traveling to the Middle East this week in part to press Israel to moderate its war plans in Gaza and prepare for a transition to lower-i...
You rake your leaves and wake up the next morning only to see more on your lawn. You look to your neighbor’s lawn and realize their leaves have found their way onto your ...
Pope Francis’ announcement Monday, Dec. 18, that Catholic priests may bless LGBTQ+ couples and others in “irregular” situations marks a definitive shift in the Roman Cath...
It’s been a rough couple of years, economically speaking, as consumers and businesses accustomed to years of essentially free money, courtesy of the Federal Reserve, had ...
