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 ...
In a letter to the editor submitted Wednesday, Susan Stephenson of Slippery Rock asks a compelling question of U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Butler.
“As President Obama begins...
In the ongoing energy war, a decisive battle may be approaching.
On Monday, a top analyst said as many as one half of the U.S. Marcellus Shale oil producers could go ban...
Thompson Greene will be quite the place to call home.
The 50-unit, townhouse-style housing development in Butler Township will consist of 30 two-bedroom and 20 three-bed...
Offering some temporary relief from heated gun control debates, turmoil in the Middle East and dramatic stock market declines, new dietary guidelines were released by th...
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Republican state senators who are proposing measures aimed at reining in the power of lobbyists in Harrisburg are right on target and deserving of plaudits — and ...
