Most Americans have faith in a court system that separates fact from fiction and substance from appearance. Justice can be slow sometimes, but we like to think the court...
It’s time to pay attention to big issues soon to be decided in Butler. The possible closure of as many as seven elementary schools by the Butler School District, and a d...
It's exciting and encouraging to see new commercial development proposed for the junction of New Castle Road and the Route 422 interchange in Butler Township.
Representa...
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.”
— Saint Augustine
Hearing that a high school student repeated her senior year, most people might susp...
Let’s try to simplify the Butler downtown parking debate by focusing on two questions: What’s it worth to you, and what are you willing to pay for it?
There’s a temptati...
Butler Township Commissioners have borrowed a page from Slippery Rock Borough Council’s playbook — and not a very good page at that.
The township’s appointment of a gas...
The public image of the state Supreme Court is being damaged by the claims of pornographic e-mail traffic and threats between feuding justices. Yesterday’s suspension of...
Even though a final plan is not yet set, the school consolidation effort in the Butler School District is off to a good start. An encouraing tone of reasonableness among...
Cheers to the Center for Community Resources and its partners in charity as they embark on their annual Bundle Up Butler winter coat drive.
In the coming week, they'll ...
The Eye of the global Ebola storm is now fixed on two Dallas nurses who came down with the viral hemorrahgic fever after treating Liberian citizen Thomas Duncan. Duncan ...
