A decade after Pennsylvania enacted sweeping changes meant to bolster government transparency and the public’s right to know, we are continually reminded that many gover...
Sometimes modern life’s changes can take your breath away. Sometimes you barely notice them.
Consider two reports published the past week in the Butler Eagle. Both had t...
Two days ago there was a coordinated string of protests against the exploitation and exportation of America’s coal reserves. The venue was San Francisco — distant from t...
Don’t miss the gift just placed before Butler School District’s taxpayers.
The 2018-19 budget — Superintendent Brian White’s first for the district — proposes zero tax i...
Despite a pledge from Gov. Tom Wolf to make reducing the number of untested rape kits in Pennsylvania a priority, more than 1,000 still languish in police evidence rooms...
If the road to a better state government seems overly long and arduous in Pennsylvania, that’s because it is — long and arduous.
That’s why it’s important to celebrate v...
Last year on this page we asked why Pennsylvania wasn’t investing more in its 14 community colleges, which confer hundreds of thousands of degrees and post-secondary cer...
In the wake of last week’s massacre at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., the gun rights debate is once again in full swing — complete with conspiracy theor...
Sometimes a look backward provides the best measure of how far we’ve come.
That’s certainly the case with Butler School District.
One year ago, the district was mired in...
When the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued its map of congressional districts on Monday, the justices called their “Remedial Plan” “superior or comparable to all plans s...
