Today Butler’s Main Street will be filled with patriotism and the men and women who put themselves at risk to protect our freedoms, as the city celebrates America’s 96th...
Be warned. This editorial is a bit of a nag session.
The “wine o’clock” habit has begun to take a deadly toll on the baby-boomer generation of women, according to a rec...
The word of the day is “change.”
That’s what many of Tuesday’s municipal elections amounted to: change.
Butler City has a new mayor and a new member of city council; the...
In Asia they tell a parable of an order of Buddhist monks who grow a certain strain of giant bamboo.
The monks bury a cutting of the bamboo’s root. They water it. They f...
Should’ve been dead on Sunday morning banging my head, No time for mourning, ain’t got no time.
— From “My own Prison” Mark Tremonti and Scott Stapp
Pain and bewildermen...
Is Pennsylvania ready for medical marijuana to become more than just an exercise in approving business plans and training doctors? Because patients throughout the state ...
If Butler County should want to dip a toe into the casino trade, it’s still not too late.
But it’s still not a good venture.
Across the state, Pennsylvania’s new gamblin...
With about 30 of the 4,300 Pennsylvania State Police troopers set to begin testing body cameras next year, the time is ripe to revisit the Commonwealth’s deplorable lack...
The Milken Educator Award is a special recognition for exceptional teachers.
Coined “the Oscars of teaching,” the Milken Awards include an unrestricted $25,000 cash awar...
Sometimes the editorial writer’s challenge is to point out connections between elements of our community’s culture that seem unrelated — or just as frequently, between e...
