Spring cleaning is a tradition around the house. The same is true for areas outside the home, especially the roadsides.
Over the winter, when snow covers trash tossed fr...
A few months ago, the U.S. Postal Service, responding to its $16 billion loss for 2012 and predictions of more red ink, announced a plan to end Saturday delivery in Augu...
The ongoing turmoil within the Butler County Commissioners Office is troubling. County government ought to run more smoothly.
And, if it’s true that this county has beco...
With the approach of April 15, the dealine for filing federal income taxes, it’s worth remembering the tax gap.
The federal tax gap, or the difference between the amount...
If energy and determination are criteria for getting the state to help to restore Glade Run Lake, the Glade Run Lake Conservancy is providing plenty of examples why the ...
It was doubtless a well-intentioned move, but President Barack Obama’s gesture last week of saying he would be returning 5 percent of his salary, or $20,000, to the Trea...
During the 11 years that she served as Britain’s prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at age 87, was loved by many and hated by others.
But history can’t r...
Cheating in schools was in the news this week. But it was not students cheating, it was administrators and teachers.
In Atlanta, a former superintendent was among 35 edu...
If frustration of elected officials and hundreds of thousands of veterans were enough to solve a problem, the backlog of claims at the Veterans Affairs Department would ...
Elected officials in Harrisburg and other financially troubled cities are paying attention to California. They aren’t planning a vacation; they are interpreting a judge’...
