Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for reshaping our understanding of human motivation, once said: “No one ever made a decision because of a number. The...
As the final hours of 2017 dwindle down toward the new year, here is an overriding wish for Butler County in 2018.
Let’s all strive to be a community. Let us be gracious...
This year’s best movie about a spirited band of resisters fighting an empire of evil isn’t the latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise, but “Darkest Hour,” an extraord...
Let us now praise Ben Beach, a Washington writer and longtime friend. Like me, Ben is a confirmed statistics buff.
Unlike me, he’s disciplined. All through the year, he...
After a unique 2017, can the denizens of the D.C. swamp outdo themselves in 2018? Let’s look ahead with my annual not-totally-serious forecast:
January: With job approva...
It was momentous, an achievement beyond belief: The inevitable election of Hillary Clinton as president had been averted, leftism was down on its knees and the issue was...
As a functional obsessive-compulsive, I’m never happier than at year’s end when I get to make lists. Herewith, my picks for the most important stories of 2017:
This year...
It’s good news that the Pennsylvania Department of Aging has started to take a tougher line with the agencies counties depend upon to investigate claims of elder abuse.
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Last July, officials of the Wolf administration came to Erie to deliver $2.6 million to begin refining concepts and doing preliminary engineering on a crucial piece of r...
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just stop talking about drug overdose deaths in Butler County? It’s a depressing topic, to say the least. It overshadows the earnest effo...
