While Pennsylvania’s State University System languishes under falling enrollment and rising costs, New York state is taking a bold gamble on its public university system...
Is there anything more dangerous on the road today than a driver with a cell phone in his hand? Not according to mounting data, which has tracked thousands of deaths nat...
Credit where credit is due: members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives deserve applause for getting a months-long jump-start on their part of the state budget ...
For most people, this community’s heroin/opioid problem is something they’ve read about in the newspaper or heard about from the friends and family members of those affe...
Thursday’s Butler Eagle reported on a 34-year-old Clearfield Township man arrested for DUI after measuring 3½ times the legal limit for alcohol. His identity isn’t impor...
In case you were worried that Harrisburg has been exhibiting unusual levels of competency lately, never fear. Our General Assembly clearly hasn’t forgotten how to follow...
Imagine you’re shopping for a new home in Butler and you find a great house for $150,000. You ask a local bank for a 13-year mortgage and offer to put down 20 percent, p...
You can hardly look at a calendar these days without being confronted with a special day, week or month. But this month is an important one: April is National Child Abus...
Three years is a long time to work without a contract. Unless you’re a teacher in Pennsylvania. Then it’s not very surprising at all. Take South Butler School District —...
Done with my shopping at Bon Aire Shopping Plaza, I decided to beat the traffic by using Delwood Drive behind the plaza.
A few minutes later, I found myself confronted b...
