This has been a tough week in the Butler Area School District and our community. This community has seen its fair share of tragedy and adversity from loss of life, fire,...
A word of appreciation goes to Sen. Bob Casey, who announced Friday that he won’t seek the Democratic nomination for president in the 2020 election.
In a visit to the Bu...
We are in the midst of a worldwide credit boom that may be without precedent. The debt explosion suggests that the global economy — all the national economies combined —...
It has been said that necessity is the mother of invention. This maxim has applied these past two weeks in the South Butler School District, which is considering the pla...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to make it a felony to assault journalists while they’re doing their jobs. Thanks but no thanks. In a free society, there is no consiste...
Clean, local natural gas is the fundamental driver behind reducing greenhouse gas emissions and curbing climate change — a critical fact often missing from the ongoing c...
As the U.S. population skews ever older, the number of people stricken with dementia steadily rises. Alzheimer’s disease already afflicts nearly 6 million Americans, and...
Exactly one month ago, on Dec. 17, the Butler Eagle observed a phenomenon and an opportunity — if we could clamp the lid on drug-overdose deaths for the final three week...
Gov. Tom Wolf waxed whimsical recently, envisioning a Super Bowl at Penn State's massive Beaver Stadium between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles.
That...
The American people have a right to know if their president is a Russian agent.
Richard Nixon delivered a version of this line in November 1973, as the Watergate scandal...
