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...
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...
An epidemic of opioid abuse is ravaging the United States and, as we look for ways to respond to it, some see cannabis as part of the solution, while others see it as pa...
You are what you eat. It’s an expression with roots in the early 1800s that has come to mean if you consume what’s good for you, you will be healthy, and if you don’t, w...
So what’s new?
Certainly not the late J. Edgar Hoover’s antipathy toward Dr. Martin Luther King as revealed again in the recent discovery of a long-ago letter from the F...
Christmas came a little early for Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin this year. Russia usually celebrates the holiday on Jan. 7, but President Putin’s present arrived a month ...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an 8-year-old girl wrote 120 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
To listen to the Democrats, the American middle class will be lucky to survive the Republican tax bill.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calls the bill “monumental, br...
What I most dislike about the Trump/Republican tax plan is the shameless cynicism with which it has been peddled. Recall how it works: The government borrows $1.5 trilli...
“The intellectual cannot operate
at room temperature.”
— Eric Hoffer “First Things, Last Things” (1971)
Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) meant that intellectuals in his day ...
