The first task of any political campaign is to frame the question it wants voters to answer. Donald Trump wants this election to be a referendum on change: Are you happy...
How could the next three months in this seemingly endless campaign for the presidency be any more jarring than the last 12? Well, as the dust settles over the political ...
For the next month members of the state’s General Assembly will be traveling the commonwealth and gathering testimony on the opioid overdose and addiction epidemic that ...
They don't call summer the silly season for nothing. This often carefree time of year is prone to odd crazes that somehow don't seem to pop up in the depths of winter. R...
Who are today’s Democrats?
As you view the audience at the Democratic National Convention, as the cameras sweep overhead, zoom in on the faces, pan to the speakers and r...
Readers of The Butler Eagle have witnessed a rare phenomenon in recent weeks.
It began with a distant atrocity: an attack June 12 inside a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla....
It’s crystal clear that Hillary Clinton stands a very good chance at becoming the next president of the United States. But win or lose, now is the time for her to act li...
Cheer
If you’ve been in Butler any time this weekend, it would have been virtually impossible to have missed the muralists at work at various points around the city. By...
Last week, halfway through the Republican convention in Cleveland, I wrote that the GOP gathering was so shambolic that it might not give Donald Trump the “bounce” he ne...
You can’t make this stuff up. No, you wouldn’t want to make this stuff up about a presidential candidate who could wind up running this country.
Donald Trump actually sa...
