Dr. Rachel Levine’s heart is certainly in the right place.
Levine, Pennsylvania’s physician general, staged a media event Thursday drawing attention to the ongoing epide...
We Americans seem to have developed some odd beliefs about taxation.
On the one hand, we tax bad behaviors like tobacco use or gambling, hoping simultaneously to discour...
If you’re one of the thousands of people enthralled with Pittsburgh’s two pairs of nesting bald eagles, then 2017 is already shaping up to be a great year.
The Audubon ...
For many people, 2016 was the real-world manifestation of Judith Viorst’s iconic 1972 children’s book “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.”
If y...
It was an alarming development that the Washington Post broke over the weekend. The story would have been compelling even without some embellishment, which there unfortu...
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Happy New Year, Butler County! Let’s set our expectations high in 2017.
The natural gas industry is about to take off, now that the OPEC ma...
Here’s a happy reminder, the best New Year’s Eve advice you’ll get this year. We wish you didn’t need to hear it.
Go fill the gas tank of every vehicle you own. Do it to...
Exactly 100 years ago today, one of the 20th century’s most iconic figures, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, wrote a letter of greeting to another celebrity of his day, a...
“I am a Pennsylvania State Trooper, a soldier of the law. To me is entrusted the honor of the force. I must serve honestly, faithfully, and if need be, lay down my life ...
Here’s the lay of the land in Butler for 2017: a municipal property tax hike for residents, rising expenditures in the budget, and $50,000 that will need to be borrowed ...
