There is precious little good news to report in the unrelenting opioid addiction crisis. So victories, when they occur, must be celebrated.
As Erie Times-News reporter M...
Let’s blow straight past a few of the givens in the ongoing drug overdose epidemic. Some truths are too obvious to continue ignoring or denying.
Chief among these is the...
It’s been months since Slippery Rock University announced its decision to step away from administrative duties at McKeever Environmental Learning Center in Mercer County...
Retooling takes time and money. We appreciate this fact. However, when public funds are involved in the retooling, it behooves us to consider the returns on such investm...
It’s time for the Pennsylvania state Senate to step up and take action that would improve Pennsylvania’s protections for victims of domestic violence.
Last year 102 Penn...
Butler County is not the worst place in Pennsylvania to live, if your main concern is access to high speed Internet service.
Nearly 97 percent of the county’s 186,847 re...
The gentleman from Ohio is making an interesting fanfare lately — one that might hit remarkably close to political sentiments in Western Pennsylvania.
U.S. Sen. Sherrod...
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...