It’s good news that the Pennsylvania Department of Aging has started to take a tougher line with the agencies counties depend upon to investigate claims of elder abuse.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just stop talking about drug overdose deaths in Butler County? It’s a depressing topic, to say the least. It overshadows the earnest effo...
It’s hard to imagine that our opinion of Pennsylvania’s General Assembly could dip any lower. But here we are, with less than two weeks until the new year kicks off, spi...
There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind
It’s time we stop, hey,...
There’s beauty in simplicity: a well-turned phrase or an idea that doesn’t bother with gymnastics, and just gets right to the point.
That’s what we see right now in a pr...
No one wants to be on the naughty list at Christmastime. But that’s exactly where Pennsylvania has landed, yet again.
This time the list was complied by a financial news...
Look around yourself, Butler County. We’re living in fascinating times.
We at the heart of George Washington’s Trail have begun making plans to extend our county airport...
Sober living facilities, three-quarter houses, drug recovery homes — there are a bunch of different names for the places recovering addicts go when it’s time to work tow...
#MeToo is making waves in Harrisburg. Women who work at the state Capitol have told women in positions of political power that sexual harassment and maybe even assault h...
Gov. Tom Wolf on Tuesday made a serious misstep when he announced that the final report on the behavior of Lt. Gov. Mike Stack and his wife, Tonya, would not be made pub...
