In upholding Philadelphia’s sweetened beverage tax Wednesday, the state Supreme Court did something even more important — it upheld the city’s ability to determine its o...
Every functioning adult knows that life is full of tough choices and trade-offs. We must often give one thing up to get something else we want or need.
For millions of A...
It’s fascinating, to say the least, observing how the game of politics/governing plays out.
It was May 2017 when Butler County commissioners first proposed adding a $5 f...
I don’t know. Maybe it’s the heat. Or the humidity. Or an effort to be heard in a political world that only has ears for Trump.
Whatever it is, it’s created a midsummer ...
The pending battle over Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has given birth to a charming myth, widely repeated, that the current era, in which nominees refuse to answe...
On Monday night Butler School District became the third in our county to adopt a mandatory, in-school random drug testing policy.
It’s a move we expected. But what’s be...
President Donald Trump traveled abroad and you almost wanted him to stay there because he put himself first and America last. His playing footsie with murderous tyrant V...
Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, leading to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, has thrown progressives, the Democratic Par...
Calls to abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency didn’t begin with the recent family separation and detention crisis, but the cry has increased in volume ...
When the Butler Township supervisors hired Ed Kirkwood as their manager on Feb. 18, 2008, they agreed to keep his predecessor, Jerry Patterson, on an hourly retainer to ...
