For decades, talk about the dangers of drug addiction meant cocaine and heroin. Today, when people talk about drug addiction and deadly overdoses they are often talking ...
Cheers to more than 250 volunteers who helped make a success of the recent United Way of Butler County's 18th Week of Caring. Butler Rotary Club is a cosponsor.
Kathlee...
An incident this week in Clinton County demonstrates how efficiently social media can spread information — regardless of whether the information is true, false or just m...
In a practice known as “triple dipping,” some retired state employees go back to work on temporary assignments, receiving pay in addition to their pension benefits; and,...
Public pensions are again in the spotlight with Detroit’s bankruptcy. The attention is not helpful if public employee pensions are looking for public support.
It’s recen...
Lawmakers in Harrisburg have put off for several weeks action that is already two years overdue — increasing funding for transportation.
In June, the state Senate passed...
Add Montgomery County to the growing list of Pennsylvania counties selling nursing homes to private operators.
The topic hits home in Butler County as commissioners cons...
It was the best of times this past weekend at Slippery Rock University, where Homecoming Weekend festivities peaked with the 34-13 football victory over Clarion, improvi...
Pennsylvania’s new chancellor of higher education, Frank Brogan, offered no breakthrough directions during his first meeting with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher...
Credit the people of Slippery Rock for demanding more than the same-ole, same-ole from their elected good-oles.
The citizens committee on solid waste, meeting Wednesday,...
