The Butler Area Sewer Authority is one big conflict of interest.
Let's start with Chester Engineering, which has controlled BASA for many years. This sewer authority has...
In his State of the Union address, President Obama made it clear that 2010 would be all about jobs. So let's focus on jobs: Where they come from and how we can increase ...
WASHINGTON — "I am not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set o...
WASHINGTON — In 2013, when President Mitch Daniels, former Indiana governor, is counting his blessings, at the top of his list will be the name of his vice president: Pa...
The growing debt — and our failure to make hard choices to reduce it — is undermining confidence in America abroad, eroding our economic might, and could lead to a histo...
WASHINGTON — The economic collapse of 2008 and 2009 did so much damage to the United States that only now can we begin to measure the devastation.
A sentence buried in t...
Last week showed just how hard it will be to dig the country out of its multitrillion-dollar fiscal hole.
The Senate rejected, 53-46, the creation of a "fiscal future" c...
In the last two weeks, President Obama finally proposed tough new restrictions on the big banks, and then he underlined them in his State of the Union speech. It's a sta...
Congress long ago discovered a great way to control Medicare spending — at least on paper.
It sets spending targets. If they're not met, fees paid to doctors, hospitals ...
WASHINGTON — The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administrati...
