The venerable Butler Farm Show’s kickoff on Monday gives us occasion, as it has for nearly 70 years, to celebrate and embrace Butler County’s agricultural heritage and t...
Pennsylvania keeps racking up mentions on lists that focus on dubious distinctions. The latest comes in regards to a pot of money that’s supposed to hold the state over ...
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...
