Not that an excuse is ever needed to praise the county’s two excellent institutions of higher learning, but both are certainly deserving of it this week.
Earlier this we...
The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on exactly how much prot...
The latest COVID-19 surge is hitting hospitals hard, with filled ICUs and emergency rooms. I saw some of it up close two weeks ago: as a heart patient.
During a workout,...
Eight days before the 20th anniversary of the darkest day in New York City history, President Joe Biden honored a promise to the families of Sept. 11’s victims and initi...
Getting the COVID-19 vaccine is not a “personal choice.” It never was, really, but the onslaught of cases fueled by the delta variant has removed any doubt.
And yet that...
Despite cooler evenings, summer is not over, at least not yet. It doesn’t end until Sept. 22.
What makes Butler County so special area all of the activities that help pe...
In a recent New York Times column under the headline “The Right-Wingers Who Admire the Taliban,” Michelle Goldberg describes a surprising amount of sympathy on the right...
We’d like to commend Slippery Rock University for adjusting its curriculum to fit students’ interest and working to stay relevant at a time when students have plenty of ...
We’ve all seen them — the “help-wanted” signs posted in business windows and even the “we’re sorry” notes, apologizing for long waits and reduced hours because of worker...
A reader wrote in with a blunt and honest comment that I want to share, because it alludes to a shift that’s taking place in society as we struggle to deal with this lat...
