As the year comes to a close, we’d like to look back on some of the issues, people and organizations whose good work we’ve cheered and missteps we’ve jeered in 2015.
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Jim Eckstein’s political blind spots and rough edges did not serve him well in his term as Butler County commissioner.
The career general contractor’s antics — hand pain...
The effects of fiscal pain at the Pennsylvania Game Commission aren’t theoretical anymore. They’ll be felt by employees starting Thursday, when Bob Wesoloskie, chief of ...
When we Pennsylvanians elected Tom Wolf governor in November 2014, we did so with an understanding that his business experience qualified him for the job. We were taken ...
It takes just a little imagination to see where the St. Barnabas Health System is going with its acquisition of two golf courses in Penn Township.
This is especially so ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is routinely the target of critics who take issue with its overreaching ways. But on the subject of indoor tanning, which th...
In those days, a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
And all...
Some stories are timeless . . . like the letter an eight-year-old girl wrote 118 years ago to the editor of the New York Sun.
Every year, at this season, the Butler Eagl...
The Veterans Affairs folks are becoming more open and engaging about not answering our questions.
Questions and frustrations about the construction of the new VA health...
Dear Dr. Ben Carson:
You probably had no idea you would be running for president of the United States when you visited Slippery Rock University 23 years ago.
The Butler ...
