A recent announcement from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is good news for doctors starved for valid research on medical marijuana. The time has come for federal and s...
Congress wants to talk to Martin Shkreli, the brash young drug company CEO who jacked up the price of an obscure drug his company controlled by 5,000 percent.
Shkreli, 3...
It would be easy enough to condemn the Pennsylvania Turnpike after the weekend’s snow-induced shutdown that left hundreds of motorists stranded.
Two westbound semi truck...
We all should be proud of four residents who received awards for their longtime volunteer work with the Butler Little Theatre.
The American Association of Community Thea...
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Cheers to the unidentified employee of Butler School District. His detection of a child’s injury uncovered what appears to be a horrible ser...
The presidential debates have come under recent criticism, in part because they’re not really debates but mostly because they don’t really change the minds of any voters...
Amid all the political wrangling over what our government investment in public education should be, we’ve lost sight of one of the most vital pillars of that enterprise....
Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech, delivered last week, did not follow the script of previous speeches as a laundry list of things a president wants to acco...
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It might seem strange to cheer the shrinking of local government, but the reduction of Eau Claire’s borough council from seven members to five — a process that wi...
Two hundred days into a state budget impasse, Rep. Brian Ellis insists there’s no impasse at all.
“We finished the budget,” the Republican from Butler told a Harrisburg ...