This proposal sounds familiar, in more ways than one.
Next week, Butler County commissioners intend to vote on a measure to add $5 to the vehicle registration fees of c...
A week ago, the Eagle took an extensive look at the sudden fall-off in drug-overdose deaths this year. A half-dozen reports looked at several apparent reasons, circumsta...
By now most Pennsylvanians will have added another item to the list of inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and annual hikes to tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
Las...
Recent weeks in Butler County and the surrounding region have been brutally hot and humid — which to many of us is just another reason to hit the community swimming pool...
By all accounts, at the root of recent sightings in Butler County is a success story: the comeback of the black bear in Pennsylvania.
It’s also the root of a problem: mo...
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776, in Philadelphia. It was the day after the Declaration of Indepe...
Members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives get an ‘F’ for effort.
Perhaps it was the afterglow of having produced an on-time and complete state budget for the ...
There’s a fable from India about six blind men entering the courtyard of the rajah and encountering an elephant. Each of them reaches out and touches a different part. E...
The United States Supreme Court this week ruled that unions don’t have the right to collect dues from employees who decline membership in the union. The 5-4 decision ove...
With good reason, school safety is a hot topic in Pennsylvania and around the country.
What should be done to improve safety for students, teachers and administrators at...
