Lately, we’ve published a fair number of articles about schools in the area being designed or having additions designed with new ideas in mind.
Seneca Valley’s Ehrman Cre...
Many people are inexplicably opposed to roundabouts in Western Pennsylvania. However, if they will save lives how can you oppose them?
There have been far too many accid...
Columbia, No. 2 on U.S. News & World Report’s coveted college list, withdrew from the rankings this summer after one of its own math professors questioned the figures the...
A multi-state settlement with electronic cigarette maker Juul might not contain an outright admission by the company that it deliberately targeted kids with advertising a...
I’ve been teaching an undergraduate class for almost 20 years called “The Economics of Desire.” I always thought “desire” in the title was the attraction, but it turns ou...
An elderly Ukrainian village woman comes to her garden gate and freezes as she watches a soldier approach. Then she puts her hand to her mouth, and begins to sob. As the ...
When you hear “wildfire,” you may immediately think of the awful wildfires plaguing communities in California. But wildfires happen in Butler County.
Often in the form of...
Today it seems like any bit of information can be pulled up with the press of a button or the click of a mouse. But that’s not true. Much of the history of Butler County ...
China's economy is in trouble. The juggernaut that once looked bound for global domination is slowing down — and not only in the short run.
The Chinese economy's projecte...
It was June 2, 1953. My family did not have a TV and my mother very much wanted to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and so we drove to the ...
