Brian White’s academic career takes a step up next month when he becomes superintendent of Butler School District.
Butler is about 40 percent larger than the district Wh...
It’s not every day that we celebrate the state making an example of someone. In fact, we’re far more likely to call for care and compassion when it comes to handing down...
Here’s an encouraging development for Butler County government.
The county’s employee pension fund has been growing at an average rate of $2 million a month all summer l...
For the second time in two years the Pennsylvania Senate has approved a measure that would allow school districts to furlough staff for economic reasons, and would also ...
The Rev. Gabriel Medicine Eagle, of the Lakota Sioux tribe of South Dakota, was preaching in Western Pennsylvania several years ago on the subject of discipleship.
“It’s...
Efficiency and effectiveness.
Under normal circumstances these two metrics are how any government program should be evaluated. When the government in question is facing ...
“A libertarian is a conservative who grows his own dope.”
It was a comedian’s pithy one-liner from about a decade ago that turned out to be prophetic, with medical or re...
To many people they’re just toys available on the shelves of many big box stores or in warehouses run by their favorite online retailer. But commercially-available drone...
Three government Davids got in the face of a corporate Goliath this week. It’s not clear yet what they’ll accomplish. For the moment, however, it seems almost insignific...
Another day, another bad idea wafting out of New Jersey.
Yesterday we mused about the Garden State’s troubling push to loosen patient privacy protections and give law en...
