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We’ll keep having fewer babies. Time to accept that

After years of grinding lower, a widely watched measure of fertility in a country battling significant demographic headwinds notched a small increase. While welcome, ther...

March 13, 2025 Other Voices

Cancer vaccine shows hope. Make the investment

A study published last month in Nature, a science journal, underscores the potential for a new, personalized pancreatic cancer vaccine to keep the disease from coming bac...

March 12, 2025 Other Voices

Cath lab improvements a must for aging population

The renovation of the catheterization laboratory at Butler Memorial Hospital is nothing but good news for people whose closest health care facility is the hospital. Accor...

March 11, 2025 Our Opinion

Supreme Court’s USAID ruling sends an important message

The U.S. Supreme Court has proven its mettle in its first important confrontation with the Trump administration — barely. By a 5-4 vote, the court upheld an order by a fe...

March 11, 2025 Other Voices

Stop messing with your constitution, Mexico

Here’s a crazy stat: Since September, Mexico has reformed its constitution 14 times, changing 70 articles in the country’s charter. You don’t need to be an expert on Mexi...

March 10, 2025 Other Voices

The age-old debate behind the war in Ukraine

As Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, listened in increasing dismay to President Donald Trump’s display of global whataboutism at the Oval Office on Feb. 28, it wa...

March 10, 2025 Other Voices

New beginnings ahead, we hope

Since the Butler Middle School closed following the 2021-22 school year, we've followed the district's progress in finding a new fate for the Butler building. We've wonde...

March 10, 2025 Our Opinion

Farewell to Saxonburg icon

Nearly 200 years after it opened its doors, a Saxonburg institution closed its doors for what might be the final time this week. Hotel Saxonburg, which first opened in 18...

March 08, 2025 Our Opinion

U.S. should be more supportive of Ukraine

What has happened to doing what is right? When we were young, we were taught to defend our smaller brothers or sisters from bullies. Most of us generalized this to interv...

March 08, 2025 Letters to the Editor

Behavior at speech disgraceful

President Donald Trump had a lot of accomplishments to tout for his speech. Everything he has done has improved our lives in this country. I didn’t expect the Democrats ...

March 08, 2025 Letters to the Editor

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