There’s a news photograph online, taken more than a week ago, showing the American doctor Kent Brantley working at a hospital in Monrovia, Liberia, shortly before Brantl...
Lake Erie has been in the news lately, but for the wrong reasons. Instead of stories about the lake’s continued recovery from industrial pollution in the 1960s or about ...
Recent talk about closing some of Butler County’s 89 polling places stirs up memories of the days when there was only one telephone company. American Telephone & Telegra...
The story about the latest money-making efforts of the Wall Street banks should not be surprising. But it has a feel of adding insult to injury.
Over the past weeks and ...
The financial crisis facing the Federal Highway Trust Fund has been known for months, even years. Yet the response from Congress to this long-term infrastruture problem ...
News stories this week focused on how little Congress has gotten done this term, noting the recent Department of Veterans Affairs compromise reform bill as a rare except...
When talking about his $1 million donation to Butler County Community College at a ceremony Tuesday, Robert Heaton offered a few thoughts worth remembering, about hard w...
Buying an airline ticket just got a little bit more expensive. It’s not that airlines raised their prices or jet fuel became more expensive last week. The reason for the...
Last fall, the nation was fixated on the botched launch of the federal health insurance website, HealthCare.gov. When introduced, the software was plagued with frequent ...
In the interest of preserving and appreciating our Pennsylvania heritage, a couple of footnotes might be added to Sunday’s front-page story about the weekend re-enactmen...
