I’ve been thinking about how my college classroom will look and feel next fall if some of my students are carrying handguns on their hips.
It’s a possibility. On March 1...
State lawmakers in Pennsylvania are advancing legislation that would give the General Assembly the authority to craft the definition of a charity, granting the associate...
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It’s not unusual for people who have experienced a fire to express great appreciation for the volunteer firefighters who battled the blaze. Sometimes people wr...
In this year’s State of the Union address, President Barack Obama was clear. He said, “(A) better politics is one where we spend less time drowning in dark money for ads...
Last week was Sunhine Week, a time for the national media organizations and good-government groups to report on efforts to encourage transparency in government. Given th...
In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed a ban on hydraulic fracturing. In Pennsylvania, Gov. Tom Wolf has a different view than his fellow Democrat in Albany.
Wolf sees e...
The early furor over Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server and the deletion of 30,000 e-mails created while she was Secretary of State no longer dominates the cable ne...
With 14 people running for Butler County Commissioner, the primary race this spring should be interesting. But it’s up to the candidates to make it interesting and infor...
With many taxpayers in the middle of tax-filing season, it looks like the tax scammers are even busier.
A report last week from the Associated Press found that at least ...
Correcting what might seem to be a minor inconvenience for visitors to Moraine State Park might not seem like a big deal. But plans to construct new ramps connecting Rou...