Throughout its history, the United States Senate has experienced disgraceful filibusters (Strom Thurmond against the 1957 Civil Rights Act), entertaining filibusters (Hu...
Imagine you’re shopping for a new home in Butler and you find a great house for $150,000. You ask a local bank for a 13-year mortgage and offer to put down 20 percent, p...
The political disaster that was the non-repeal of ObamaCare last month was bad enough. But now its recriminatory aftershocks, fully joined by President Donald Trump hims...
You can hardly look at a calendar these days without being confronted with a special day, week or month. But this month is an important one: April is National Child Abus...
Trump will be heading back to Mar-a-Lago soon, spending millions of taxpayer dollars for another weekend at his 126-room beachfront palace. Many of his critics will roll...
Forget about the House intelligence committee when it comes to investigating whether Russia stuck its snout into our election. The panel, as led by its Republican chairm...
Three years is a long time to work without a contract. Unless you’re a teacher in Pennsylvania. Then it’s not very surprising at all. Take South Butler School District —...
The recent Republican debacle on health care could prove to be an opportunity. It highlighted, yet again, the complexity of America’s system, which continues to be by fa...
It isn’t often that economics raises the most profound questions of human existence, but recent work of economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (husband and wife, both of ...
Done with my shopping at Bon Aire Shopping Plaza, I decided to beat the traffic by using Delwood Drive behind the plaza.
A few minutes later, I found myself confronted b...
